Jean Jouzel, (born 5 March 1947) is a prominent French

glaciologist Glaciology (; ) is the scientific study of glaciers, or more generally ice and natural phenomena that involve ice. Glaciology is an interdisciplinary Earth science that integrates geophysics, geology, physical geography, geomorphology, climato ...

and

climatologist Climatology (from Greek , ''klima'', "place, zone"; and , ''-logia'') or climate science is the scientific study of Earth's climate, typically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of at least 30 years. This modern field of study ...

. He has mainly worked on the reconstruction of past climate derived from the study of the

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and

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ice.

Career

Jean Jouzel's career occurred mostly in CEA (

Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique A commissariat is a department or organization commanded by a commissary or by a corps of commissaries. In many countries, commissary is a police rank. In those countries, a commissariat is a police station commanded by a commissary. In some ...

) which is the French nuclear public organization. In 1991 he became vice president of LMCE which is the CEA laboratory dedicated to environment and climate ; in 1995 he became its research director. In 1998 he became director of climate research of

LSCE The (LSCE, Climate and Environment Sciences Laboratory) is a laboratory for the study of climate and in particular climate change. It is part of the Institute Pierre Simon Laplace, and located on campuses in L'Orme des Merisiers and Gif sur Yv ...

which resulted from the fusion of LMCE with another environmental research laboratory. From 2001 to 2008 he was director of IPSL (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace) which is a major federative laboratory on climate research in Paris region, including CEA LMCE-LSCE. He has focused his research on isotopic modelling, especially water isotopes for reconstruction of past climate, from ice cores. Since the 1970s, he has joined his effort with the prominent French glaciologist

Claude Lorius Lorius (born 1932) is a French glaciologist. He is director emeritus of research at CNRS. He was the director of the Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement in Grenoble from 1983 to 1988. He has taken part in more than 20 po ...

and he has contributed to the project of deep ice drilling in Antarctica, first in Vostok, then in EPICA (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica) which he will lead from 1995 to 2001, producing 800,000 years of climate history.

Involvement in IPCC

From 2002 to 2015 Jean Jouzel was vice-chair of the Scientific Working Group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Political activism

Jean Jouzel has supported socialist candidates, including Benoit Hammon for the French Republic presidential elections occurred in 2017 and Anne Hidalgo, for whom he has agreed to be chair of the support committee for the Paris mayoral elections of 2020.

Awards

Jean Jouzel has received many scientific or public awards. In 1997 he received the

Milutin Milankovic Medal The Milutin Milankovic Medal is an annual award in Earth science presented by the European Geosciences Union (EGU). The award was introduced in 1993 by the European Geophysical Society (EGS). After a merger with the European Union of Geosciences ...

. In 2002 he received with

the

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...

gold medal, the highest French scientific award. In 2003, he received the

Roger Revelle Medal The Roger Revelle Medal is given out annually by the American Geophysical Union to recognize "outstanding accomplishments or contributions toward the understanding of the Earth’s atmospheric processes, including its dynamics, chemistry, and r ...

In 2012 he received the

Vetlesen Prize The Vetlesen Prize is a prize in geology awarded jointly by Columbia University's Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory and the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation. The prize is generally regarded as the highest distinction in geologic studies, and the " Nob ...

, shared with

Susan Solomon Susan Solomon (born January 19, 1956 in Chicago) is an American atmospheric chemist, working for most of her career at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In 2011, Solomon joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech ...

. In 2015, he received the Leonardo da Vinci Award from European Academy of Sciences. In 2016 he was elected as a foreign associate of the US

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...

.. In 2017 he was elected as a member of the French Academy of Science.

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Biography in French
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1947 births Living people Scientists from Brittany French climatologists Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences French glaciologists {{climate-bio-stub