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Main Interest
Palaeo-climatology and palaeo-oceanography of the Southern Ocean and its role in global climate changes.
Key words of recent activities
Sea ice.
Deglaciation and Holocene.
Plio-Pleistocene.
Teleconnections between low and high southern latitudes.
Annual to centennial timescales.
Diatom morphometry.
Current and recent projects
Plio-Plesitocene climate change at high southern latitudes
CROTALE; Project Coordinator Xavier Crosta (U Bordeaux, Fr), 2020.
Deglacial and Holocene climate change at high southern latitudes
SERB India on The role of the Southern Ocean in Late Quaternary climate: Oceanic teleconnections with low latitudes; Project Coordinators Xavier Crosta (U Bordeaux, Fr) and Sunil Shukla (BSIP, In), 2018.
RC Norway OCTEL (Ocean–sea-ice–atmosphere teleconnections between the Southern Ocean and North Atlantic during the Holocene); Project Coordinator Arto Miettinen (NPI, No), 2016-2018.
LEFE-EVE DYNACC (Dynamique du courant circum-antarctique et climatologie de l'Océan Indien Sud au cours des 25 000 dernières années); Project Coordinator Alain Mazaud (LSCE, Fr), 2013-2015.
FP7 Collaborative Project PAST4FUTURE (Climate Change – Learning from the past climate): Large-Scale Integrating Project; Project Coordinator Dorthe Dahl-Jensen (University of Copenhagen, Dk), 2010-2014.
ESF PolarCLIMATE Programme HOLOCLIP (Holocene climate variability at high southern latitudes): Joint Research Project between 7 EU nations; Project Coordinators Barbara Stenni (University of Trieste, It) and Xavier Crosta (University Bordeaux 1, Fr), 2010-2013.
ANR CLIMICE (Sea ice and Past climate variability); Project Coordinators Guillaume Massé (University of Paris 6, Fr) and Xavier Crosta (University Bordeaux 1, Fr), 2009-2012.
Deglacial and Holocene climate change at high northern latitudes
ANR GREENEDGE (Biological productivity in the Artic Ocean: Past, present and future response to climate variations); Project Coordinator Marcel Babin(UMI Takuvik, Québec, Canada), 2014-2017.
Deglacial and Holocene change in coastal upwelling systems
LEFE-EVE COMICS (Climate and oxygen minimum zones at centennial and millenial scales in the south-east Pacific); Project Coordinator Philippe Martinez (University Bordeaux 1, Fr), 2009-2012.
Diatom morphometry as a new tool for paleoceanography
SCAR Fellowship Scheme (Diatom-based Paleoclimate Inferences from Antarctic to Subtropical Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean) ; Project Coordinator Xavier Crosta (University Bordeaux 1, Fr), 2011.
Recent oceanographic expeditions
MD218 CROTALE (CROzeT Archipelago paLEoceanography); FOF; Project Coordinator Xavier Crosta (U Bordeaux, Fr); Feb-March 2019.
PePSI-SO (Pleistocene Paleoceanography of the Southwestern Indian sector of the Southern Ocean); IODP 918-pre; Project Coordinators MInoru Ikehara (U Kochi, Japan) and Xavier Crosta (U Bordeaux, Fr).
Recent PhD and post-doctoral fellows
Post-doctoral fellows
Dr. Sunil Shukla; 2018; The role of the Southern Ocean in Late Quaternary climate: Oceanic teleconnections with low latitudes.; University of Bordeaux, France; Birbal Sahni Institute for Paleosciences, Lucknow, India.
Dr. Lisa Orme; 2016-2018; Ocean–sea-ice–atmosphere teleconnections between the Southern Ocean and North Atlantic during the Holocene (OCTEL).; Norsk Polar Institute, Norway.
Dr. Audrey Limoges; 2015-2017; 5000 ans de changements dans le couvert de glace et les paramètres océaniques le long de la côte Ouest du Groenland.; UMI Takuvik, Laval University, Canada.
Dr. Julien Crespin; 2015-2017; Multi-proxy investigation of Southern Ocean Fronts influence on the Agulhas Current and of continent-ocean connections over the Plio-Pleistocene.; University of Bordeaux, France.
Dr. Nathaelle Bouttes; 2015-2016; CHanges Of CO2 Levels during pAst and fuTure intErglacials (CHOCOLATE).; University of Bordeaux, France.
Dr. Julien Crespin; 2011-2013; Glacier-melt dynamics of East Antarctica during the past 10,000 years; Weizmann Institute of Science, Israël.
PhD fellows
Matthieu Civel; 2018-2021; High resolution reconstructions of deglacial surface hydrography in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean over the past 400 000 year; Kochi university, Japan.
Pooja Ghadi; 2018-2021; Paleoceanography of the west Indian sector of the Southern Ocean over the last climatic cycle; NCPOR, India.
Tristan Hatin; 2012-2016; Reconstitution du climat et des conditions oceanographiques de la marge ouest africaine au cours du quaternaire terminal : apport des diatomees des archives sedimentaires du systeme turbiditique du Congo; Brest University, France.
Campagne Philippine; 2011-2015; Le dernier millénaire en Antarctique de l’Est : biomarqueurs, diatomées et modélisation; University Bordeaux 1, France.
Sophie Fleury; 2011-2015; Lamines sédimentaires et variabilité climatique et océanographique haute-fréquence sur la marge péruvienne au cours de l’Holocène; University Bordeaux 1, France, pp. 369.