The 2025 scientific day of the project-team FORMAL v2 will be organised on Monday 2nd June 2025 fully online.
All the members of FORMAL are welcome, as well as any colleague from Sorbonne University who is interested in the topic “From Observing to Modelling Ocean Life”.
Registration is free but mandatory before June 1st. PLEASE REGISTER HERE
Program of the day
9h-9h05: Introduction of the day. Sakina-Dorothée Ayata (LOCEAN)
Morning session
9h05-9h50: Invited keynote #1
9h05-9h50 : Ronan Fablet (IMT Atlantique, Lab-STICC) – End-to-end neural schemes for the calibration, emulation and reconstruction of ocean BGC dynamics.
9h50-12h30: invited presentations by young researchers funded by ISCD-FORMAL and members of FORMAL
09h50-10h10: Nicolas Mayot (FORMAL post-doc at LOV) – Advancing understanding of Southern Ocean phytoplankton phenology with 4D data product.
10h10-10h25: Alex Nalivaev (FORMAL doc at LOCEAN) – Iron sources at subantarctic latitudes and their impact on Southern Ocean phytoplankton blooms.
10h25-10h40: Enza Labourdette (FORMAL doc at LOV/LPSM) – Can extending the inputs of deep learning models to include mesoscale context lead to better predictions of phytoplankton community composition?
10h40-11h00 : Break (20 min)
11h00-12h30 : Invited talks by PhD candidates and post-docs from FORMAL-associated labs
11h00-11h15 : Luther Ollier (PhD candidate at LOCEAN) – Modeling Chlorophyll-a and Phytoplankton diversity through deep-learning.
11h15-11h30 : Pierre Garcia (PhD candidate at LIP6) – STINGRAE-FM : Spatio-Temporal Iterative Neural Generation from Remote-Sensing Assimilation through rElaxated Flow-Matching.
11h30-11h45 : Louise Delaigue (post-doc at LOV) – When robots catch the breeze: demonstrating acoustic wind speed sensing from a BGC-Argo float. CANCELED.
11h45-12h00 : Gaspard Rihm (PhD candidate at ISYEB) – Data-driven modeling to understand dinoflagellates trophic strategies distribution in marine ecosystems. CANCELED.
11h30-11h45 : Quentin Hyvernat (PhD candidate at Mercator) – Optimizing PISCES parameters for North Atlantic Seasonal pCO2 predictions : An ensemble-based approach using BGC-Argo data.
11h45-12h00 : Simon Ramondenc (post-doc at LOV) – Characterising the morphological diversity of marine particles with implication for carbon export estimation?
12h-14h: Break
Afternoon session
14h00-14h45: Invited keynote #2
14h00-14h45 : Julien Brajard (NERSC) – Improve bio-geochemical models with machine learning.
14h45-16h00: invited presentations by new members of FORMAL and other members
14h45-15h00: Corentin Clerc (New MCF at SU-LOCEAN) – Evaluating zooplankton in models of increasing complexity.
15h00-15h15: Lars Stemmann (new IUF project) – PLAnktonic CArbon Roads to the Deep Ocean inferred from massive imaging data collection (PLACARDO project).
15h15-15h30: Eric Goberville (BOREA) – Modelling approaches in the North Atlantic: From zooplankton communities to cod distribution.
15h30-15h45 : Virginie Sonnet (post-doc at LOV) – Distribution of plankton transparency at global scale: patterns and ecological implications.
15h45-16h : Guillaume Gastineau (LOCEAN) – Disentangling Internal and Forced Climate Variability.
16h00-16h10 : Break (10 min)
16h10-17h: Discussion on the future of FORMAL: future activities, strategy, etc.
Mostly for permanent members of FORMAL
- 16h-16h20 : Focus sur la formation
- 16h20-17h : Focus sur les autres activités futures
