About:

I am a paleoceanographer, I used planktonic foraminifera and geochemical proxies to reconstruct past ocean properties. These past conditions confronted to past climate or forcings, help to understand how the ocean interacts with the climate. I am particularly interested in the subsurface of the ocean and I like to explore unconventional foraminifera species to get a complete view of the water column.

WORSHOP in June 2013

"Standardization of foraminifera collection methods", after the MS meeting in Prague, June 19-22, 2013.

http://web.natur.cuni.cz/ugp/main/msfng2013/satwork.html

PRESENT and PAST POSITIONS

• Jan 2012-present: Post-doctoral researcher at the NIOZ. Marie-Curie program   Gateways (Agulhas current / Mozambique Channel).

• 2009-2011: Post-doctoral researcher at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) of Columbia University, NY, USA. Group of Peter deMenocal. Projects included: 1) Establish proxies for the thermocline circulation in the Atlantic Ocean. 2) Reconstruct the location of the marine ITCZ over the last 25 ka in the Atlantic Ocean. 3) Tracking the deglacial d¹⁴C anomaly in the equatorial Atlantic.

• 2007-2008: Post-doctoral researcher at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA. Group of Jean Lynch-Stieglitz. Comparison between benthic and deep-dwelling planktonic foraminifera geochemical signals in the Florida Straits over the Holocene.

• 2004-2007: Ph.D. student at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE) Gif-sur-Yvette, France. Reconstruction of ocean water column structure in the Gulf Stream area for the past 20,000 years.

Professional Services

★ Member of the SCOR Working Group 138  Modern Planktic Foraminifera and Ocean Changes. http://www.scor-int.org/Working_Groups/wg138.htm

The SCOR WG138 aims to synthesize the state of the art in planktonic foraminifera research.

★ Member of the scientific program committee for the PAGES YSM 2013 meeting in Goa, India. http://www.pages-osm.org/ysm

★ Co-organisator workshop at NIOZ (June 2012), Benthic foraminifera, bio-indicator of natural and man-made methane/oil emission.

★ 2009 Guest-editor for Proceedings Special Issue of the PAGES Young Scientists Meeting in "IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science"

PUBLICATION (PDF available on request)

• Cléroux C., Cortijo E., Duplessy J.C., Zahn R., Deep-dwelling foraminifera as thermocline temperature recorders, Geophysics, Geochemistry, Geosystems, 2006GC001474, vol.8 (4), doi :10.1029/2006GC001474, 2007.
• Cléroux C., Cortijo E., Anand P., Labeyrie L., Bassinot F., Caillon N. and Duplessy J.C., Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca ratios in planktonic foraminifera: proxies for upper water column temperature reconstruction, Paleoceanography, vol.23, doi:10.1029/2007PA001505, 2008.
• Cléroux C., Lynch-Stieglitz J. et al., Evidence for calcification depth change of G. truncatulinoides between Deglaciation and Holocene in the Western Atlantic Ocean, Marine Micropaleontology, 73, page 57-61, 2009
• DiNezio P., Cléroux C., Applegate P. and Collins P., Young scientists meet to exchange science, network and learn about PAGES, PAGES newsletter, 17, 3, p. 131-133, 2009.
• Cléroux C. and Lynch-Stieglitz J., What caused G. truncatulinoides to calcify in shallower water during the early Holocene in the western Atlantic / Gulf of Mexico?, IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 9, PAGES YSM proceeding issue, doi:10.1088/1755-1315/9/1/012020, 2010.
• Cléroux C., deMenocal P. and Guilderson T., Deglacial radiocarbon history of tropical Atlantic thermocline waters: absence of CO₂ reservoir purging signal, Quaternary Science Review, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.04.015, 2011.
• Cléroux C., Debret M., Cortijo E., Duplessy J-C., Dewilde F., Reijmer J. and Massei N., High-resolution sea surface reconstructions off Cape Hatteras over the last 10 ka, Paleoceanography, 10.1029/2011PA002184, 2012.
• Cléroux C., deMenocal P., Arbuszewski J. and Linsley B., Reconstructing the Atlantic Ocean meridional thermocline structure (42°N - 25°S) using oxygen isotopic compositions of deep-dwelling planktonic foraminifera species, re-submitted
• Jennifer A. Arbuszewski, Peter B. deMenocal, Caroline Cléroux, Louisa Bradtmiller, Alan Mix, Glacial-Holocene Shifts of the Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone, submitted to Nature Geoscience.