EPOC laboratory
CALEY
Thibaut
CNRS Researcher
Education and Training
2015: CNRS researcher
2014-2015: Post-Doc: Revealing South-East African past climate, its link to sedimentary
fluxes and Hominid evolution (UBO/Ifremer Brest).
2012-2014: Post-Doc: Understanding the oceanic δ18O record and its link to land
records using data-model comparisons (Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU Amsterdam).
2008-2011: Phd thesis: Importance of the Indian Ocean for Quaternary paleoclimate: the Monsoon and the Agulhas current (Bordeaux University).
Scientific Skills
- Paleoceonography/Paleoclimatology
- Geochemistry of fossil organisms:
Mass spectrometer: IRMS (stable isotopes δ18O, δ13C), ICP AES (trace elements Mg/Ca, Ba/Ca…)
- Bio/Geochemistry of organic matter:
Biomarkers, High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), Gas chromatography (GC) and Compound-specific isotopes analyses (GC-irms) (δD, δ13C)
- Automated morphometric analysis and transfer functions on planktonic foraminifera
- XRF core scanner
- Numerical climate modeling including water stable isotopes (iLOVECLIM model)
Scientific cruises
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2016: SAFARI Expedition 361 (Joides resolution ship, South Africa)
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2012: MONOPOL project (Marion Dufresne ship, Bay of Bengal)
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2010: SARGASS project (Pourquoi Pas ship, Bay of Biscay)