Senior Research Scientist @ CNRS
Adjunct Senior Research Scientist @ Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
"Peut-on rire de tout ? Et pourra-t-on encore demain rire de tout ? Ces questions méritent d’être posées..." Cabu
Visiting address :
Ecole Normale Supérieure
CERES-ERTI & Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique
24 rue Lhomond
Tel : +33-(0)14432 2724
Postal address : 24 rue Lhomond
75230 Paris, FRANCE
E-mail : denis-didier.rousseau [at] lmd.ens.fr
Google scholar references
Researchgate link
AGU leadership blog "From the Prow" :
- The Symphony that is AGU’s Fall Meeting
- Fall Meeting 2015 : The start of something terrific
- Looking forward to AGU’s 49th annual Fall Meeting
- Closing out 2016 with Inspiration and Collaboration at AGU’s 49th Annual Fall Meeting
- Spring Is Here, It’s Time to Submit Your Fall Meeting Session Proposal
- Just Over the Horizon : Fall Meeting 2017
- Encouraging Diversity and Support of Early Career Scientists at the 2018 Fall Meeting
2 inspiring lectures corresponding to my academic mottos :
Stay hungry, Stay Foolish ! Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement address (2005)
The Path to Sustainable development. Jeffrey Sachs Columbia University lecture (2014)
"You’d have to be out of your mind to choose this planet ! It is only pleasant at night when its inhabitants are asleep (The Little Prince)
The Little Prince is wrong. There are those on earth whose integrity, kindness, and generosity of heart make up for the greed and selfishness of the others. For example...." Saint Exupéry dedication of his "The Little Prince"
Science honors and awards
- 1990 CNRS Bronze Medal
- 2004 Humboldt Research Prize Gay-Lussac
- 2007 CNRS Silver Medal
- 2008 EGU Union Service Award (video)
- 2017 EGU Hans Oeschger medal
- 2004-2005 Visitiing Professor @ University Bayreuth (Alexander von Humboldt fundation)
- 2012 Elected member of Academia Europaea (Earth & Cosmic Sciences)
- 2014 Visiting Professor @ Columbia University (Alliance Program)
- 2014-2016 AGU Fall Meeting Program Committee Chair
- 2017-2019 AGU Fall Meeting Program Committee Chair
- 2017 DAAD awardee, visiting scientist at PIK (Potsdam, postponed)
Civil servant honors and awards
- 2010 Regional French Olympic Committee Languedoc-Roussillon Bronze Medal
Investissements d’Avenir
- 2012 PI of CLIMCOR project (ANR-11-EQPX-0009-CLIMCOR) funded by the Equipement of excellence Governemtal program (Web page of CLIMCOR) (36 granted proposals over 210) : 4.6 Meuros
- 2014 PI of CLIMCOR-Marion Dufresne (2014-EQX-01) funded by the Equipement of excellence Governemtal program : 13 Meuros.
- Vidéo de présentation de l’Equipex "CLIMCOR"
Research
- My research program aims to develop a diverse approach, only a priori, of continental palaeoclimatology and global changes. Indeed, my interests allow me to work at different levels of integration from various records. However they have one point in common which is their connection to the global atmospheric circulation. Indeed, I am studying the loess sequences in the aspect of sediment and dust transport (ANR BLANC project "ACTES" funded 2009-2013 + ADOM initiative under the IGBP PAGES in 2009-2012), which means to address both regionally (Europe, North America, Asia) than globally (via possible teleconnections between the various areas mentioned above) the past dynamics of atmospheric circulation. Therefore, my research activities are grouped into three distinct themes :
- Climate Dynamics during the past climate cycles, both Tertiary and Quaternary
- Relations between recent climate change and Biosphere
- Feedbacks in the environmental systems (PSL priority theme and CNRS thematic school)
- Link to ANR BLANC project "ACTES"
- Link to PSL Paris-Sciences-Lettres Research Foundation
- Link to Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
- Link to Alexander von Humboldt Fundation
European Program H2020
- LC-CLA-08-2018b call : Funded project TiPES : leader of theme1 : "Tipping Elements in data and models" (negotiation phase with the European Commission)
- BG-15-2014 : Funded project EU-PolarNet : leader of Workpacakage2 : "Polar Research for Science and Society" (2014-2016)
- COP21 Paris : Side event session : ”Artic Change : what it means ?"
American Geophysical Union
European Geosciences Union
- EGU website
- EGU awards
- EGU Publications
- Co-founder and Co-editor in chief of Climate of the Past IF 2016= 3.543
- Science organization
PAGES (Past Global Changes program of IGBP)
- PAGES website
- Science organization
- Member elected (2010-2015) of the Science Steering Committee (SSC)
- Member elected of PAGES EXCOM (2012-2015)
- Science working group
- Chair of the ADOM (Atmospheric circulation Dynamics during the last glacial cycle : Observations and Modeling) working group
- London 2012 : "A Planet under Pressure", co-convener with Eric Wolff and Hubertus Fischer of Theme B, Day 1 session : "How has the planet responded to large climate change pressures in the past ?"
- Goa 13-16 February 2013 : "Open Science Meeting", member of the Scientific program Committee
French Arctic Initiative
- Scientific Director of FAI (2011-2016)
- Member of the International Organizing Committee of Arctic Change 2014, 8-12 December 2014, Ottawa + participant of plenary session
- Lead convener of the Arctic Session : ”The Arctic Climate System” at "Our Common Future under Climate change" in preparation of COP21
- Presentation of the French Arctic Priorities at a Round Table held at the French Embassy to Finland
INSU-CNRS (Earth Sciences and Astronomy National Institute at CNRS)
- INSU website
- Scientific Officer (2011-2016) in charge of Polar studies and co-organizer of the National Symposium on Arctic Studies, 3-6 june 2013
- Scientific responsible of C2FN (National Drilling and Coring Center)
- PI of CLIMCOR project funded by the Investment for Future Governemtal program
- Member of the Executive Committee of ICDP (2007-2016) (International Continental scientific Drilling Program)
- NSF polar programs (ArcSEES :Arctic NSF’s Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability)
- CNRS Point contact within ArcSEES
- Belmont-Forum Arctic cooperative research action (Arctic observing and research for sustainability)
- CNRS point contact
- European Polar Board : CNRS delegate (2013-2016)
- CNRS Advanced School (Summer School) Director of "Feedbacks in Environmental Systems - CNRS School Michael Ghil"
PSL* Research University
- PSL* Research University website : member appointed of the Research Council
- PI of the transversal project : Institute of Environment (17 Meuros on PSL main grant) associated to a new building (25 Meuros from the CAMPUS program) devoted to the Institute (both projects have been abandoned by PSL presidency and direction of research)
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Interviews
- AGU 100 Narratives for the Centennial celebration, oral interview : "It was not a straight line" September 2018
- EOS du 10 juin 2017 Returning Fall Meeting Chair Looks to New Orleans and beyond
- Le Figaro du 15 décembre 2014 AGU Program Chair
- Journal du CNRS ETE 2014 (#277) AGU Fall Meeting Program Chair
- EOS du 10 juin 2014 Appointment AGU Fall Meeting Program Chair
- EGU Interview with Denis-Didier Rousseau : President of the European Geosciences Union, Division on Climate : Past, Present and Future, provides an insight into the ever expanding remit of this branch of the EGU.
- Interview given to Normale Sup’info published on March 2012 or on ENS web pages here
- Interview given to AvH foundation for the von Humboldt-Gay Lussac Prize
Videos
- AGU TV, AGU Fall Meeting 2018, Washington DC
- First JpGU-AGU joint Union Session through the first Great Debate ever organized at JpGU meetings (Chiba, 2016)
- Interview dans le journal de science Prisma Studio à 20 heures sur Yle TV (chaine finlandaise)
- Vidéo de soutien à l’association Science ouverte de Drancy et au projet d’expédition au Groenland 2016
- Table Ronde FORUM DU CNRS 2015 ”Les Pôles, sentinelles du Changement Climatique”
- Presentation of the French Arctic Initiative (Arctic Circle 2014, Reykjavik)
- EGU Union Award 2008 video
- Open access Publications of EGU (CEA + Ecole Polytechnique) 2008 video
- Lecture at Ecole Normale Superieure 2006 video
Responsable éditorial
Recent publications
- Antoine P., Lagroix F, Jordanova D, Jordanova N, Lomax J, Fuchs M, Debret M, Rousseau DD, Hatté C, Moine O, Taylor SN, Till J. A unique Late Saalian (MIS 6) loess (dust) accumulation in the Lower Danube at Harletz (Bulgaria). Quat. Sci. Rev. (in the press)
- Lomax J, Fuchs, M, Antoine P, Rousseau DD, Lagroix F, Hatté C, Taylor S, Till J, Debret M, Moine O & Jordanova D (2019). Luminescence chronology of the Harletz loess sequence, Bulgaria. Boreas 48, 179-194 https://doi. org/10.1111/bor.12348. ISSN 0300-9483
- Boers N, Ghil M & Rousseau DD (2018). Ocean circulation, ice shelf and sea ice interactions explain Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci USA 115, 44, E1105-E11014 (2018),doi/10.1073/pnas.1802573115.
- Lécuyer, C., François Atrops, F., Romain Amiot, R., Angst D., Daux V., Flandrois J.P., Fourel F., Rey K., Royer A., Seris M., Touzeau A., and Rousseau D.D. (2018). Tsunami sedimentary deposits of Crete records climate during the Minoan Warming Period (≈3,350 years BP). The Holocene 28, 914-929.
- Schaetzl, R.J., Bettis, E.A., III, Crouvic, O., Fitzsimmons, K.E., Grimley, D.A., Hambach, U., Lehmkuhl, F., Markovic, S.B., Mason, J.A., Owczarek, P., Roberts, H.M., Rousseau, D.-D., Stevens, T., Vandenberghe, J., Zarate, M., Veres, D., Yang, S., Zech, M., Conroy, J.L., Dave, A.K., Faust, D., Hao, Q., Obreht, I., Prud’homme, C., Smalley, I., Tripaldi, A., Zeeden, C., Zech, R. (2018). Approaches and challenges to the study of loessIntroduction to the Loess-Fest Special Issue. Quat. Res. 89, 563-618.
- Wu, N.Q., Li, F.J., and Rousseau, D.-D. (2018). Terrestrial mollusk records from Chinese loess sequences and changes in the East Asian monsoonal environment. J. Asian Earth Sci. 155, 5-48 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2017.11.003
Recent book chapters
- Rousseau DD & Hatté C & (2019). Ground-air interface : the loess sequences markers of atmospheric circulation In JC Duplessy & G Ramstein (ed.) “Paleoclimatology”, Springer (in the press).
- Rousseau DD, Derbyshire E., Antoine P & Hatté c (2018). European loess records. In S. Elias et al (Eds) " Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences", Elsevier, Amsterdam, DOI : 10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.11136-4
- Antoine P, Moine O, Rousseau DD, Lagroix F, Kreutzer S, Fuchs M, Debret M, Hatté C, Gauthier C, Svoboda J & Lisá L (2016). Loess-palaeosol sequence DV-09 (Dolni Vestonice brickyard : chronostratigraphy and palaeoenvironments. In Svoboda, J., (ed.) : ”Dolní Věstonice II. Chronostratigraphy, Paleoecology, Paleoanthropology”. The Dolní Věstonice Studies vol. 21. Brno : Instute of Archaeology, 49-61.
- Muhs D, Cattle, SR, Crouvi O, Rousseau DD, Sun J & Zarate MA (2014). Loess Records. In P Knippertz & JB Stuut (eds.) « Mineral Dust : A key player in the Earth System » Springer Verlag, 411-441, doi : 10.1007/978-94-017-8978-3_16.
- Hatté C & Rousseau DD (2013). Interface air-sol : les séquences loessiques, marqueur de la circulation atmosphérique passée ? In JC Duplessy & G Ramstein (ed.) “Paléoclimatologie, Enquête sur les climats anciens”. Editions EDP Sciences – CNRS, Paris, T1, 263 – 273.
- Rousseau DD, Schevin P, Ferrier, J, Ledru MP & Duzer D (2009). Existe-’il un transport pollinique vers Clipperton. « L Charpy (ed.), "Clipperton. Patrimoines Naturels", Publications scientifiques du Muséum, 297-308.
