Nathaelle Bouttes is a research scientist at the Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de
l’environnement (LSCE/IPSL). Following the completion of her Ph.D. in 2010 on the glacial
carbon cycle, she went to the University of Reading (UK) for a five-year postdoc on recent and
future sea-level changes. She then spent a year at Bordeaux (France) with a Marie–Curie
Fellowship on interglacials carbon cycle before joining the LSCE in 2016. Since then, she has
specialized in understanding glacial–interglacial carbon cycle changes using numerical models
and model–data comparison.
She is mostly using and developing coupled carbon-climate models to understand past
changes of the carbon cycle, in particular the evolution of the atmospheric CO 2 . She has been
focusing on the period covered by ice core records, i.e., the last 800,000 years. She uses
model–data comparison by directly simulating proxy data such as d
13 C to evaluate possible
mechanisms for the orbital and millennial changes. She has been involved in several projects
covering this topic as well as teaching and supervising Ph.D. students.
Pierre Sepulchre is a CNRS research scientist at the Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de
l’environnement (LSCE/IPSL). He completed a Ph.D. on the Miocene climate of Africa in
2007, then went to UC Santa Cruz (USA) for a two-year postdoctoral position working on the
links between the uplift of the Andes and atmospheric and oceanic dynamics. His lifelong
research project at CNRS is to evaluate the links between tectonics, climate, and evolution at
the geological timescales, focusing on the last 100 million years. Through the supervision of
Ph.D. students and his collaboration with geologists and evolutionary biologists, he also
worked at evaluating paleoaltimetry methods with the use of an isotope-enabled atmospheric
general circulation model, as well as linking continental surface deformation, climate, and
biodiversity in Africa and Indonesia. In recent years, he led the implementation and validation
of a fast version of the IPSL Earth system model that allows running long climate integrations
dedicated to paleoclimate studies.
Aline Govin is, since 2015, a research associate at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et
de l’Environnement (LSCE, Gif sur Yvette, France). She studied Earth Sciences at the Ecole
Normale Supérieure of Paris (France) and obtained in 2008 a Ph.D. thesis in paleoclimatology
jointly issued by the University of Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines (France) and the
University of Bergen (Norway). Before joining the LSCE, she worked for five years as a
postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM, University of
Bremen) in Germany.
Her research activities focus on the reconstruction of paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic
changes by applying various types of geochemical and sedimentological tracers on marine
sediment cores. She has mostly worked on the Earth’s climatic changes of the last 150,000
years and is an expert of the last interglacial climate, which is an excellent case study to
investigate the response of the Earth’s climate to past warming conditions that could be
encountered in the coming decades. Her research interests include the past variability of the
deep North Atlantic circulation, the responses, and drivers of tropical monsoon systems (e.g.,
South American Monsoon), the development and calibration of paleo-tracers, the development
of robust chronologies across archives, and the quantification of related uncertainties, as well
as the comparison of paleo-reconstructions to climate model simulations of past climates.
She has authored around 30 scientific publications and has been involved in many French,
German, and other international (e.g., Brazilian) projects.
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About the Editors
l’environnement (LSCE/IPSL). Following the completion of her Ph.D. in 2010 on the glacial
carbon cycle, she went to the University of Reading (UK) for a five-year postdoc on recent and
future sea-level changes. She then spent a year at Bordeaux (France) with a Marie–Curie
Fellowship on interglacials carbon cycle before joining the LSCE in 2016. Since then, she has
specialized in understanding glacial–interglacial carbon cycle changes using numerical models
and model–data comparison.
She is mostly using and developing coupled carbon-climate models to understand past
changes of the carbon cycle, in particular the evolution of the atmospheric CO 2 . She has been
focusing on the period covered by ice core records, i.e., the last 800,000 years. She uses
model–data comparison by directly simulating proxy data such as d
13 C to evaluate possible
mechanisms for the orbital and millennial changes. She has been involved in several projects
covering this topic as well as teaching and supervising Ph.D. students.
Pierre Sepulchre is a CNRS research scientist at the Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de
l’environnement (LSCE/IPSL). He completed a Ph.D. on the Miocene climate of Africa in
2007, then went to UC Santa Cruz (USA) for a two-year postdoctoral position working on the
links between the uplift of the Andes and atmospheric and oceanic dynamics. His lifelong
research project at CNRS is to evaluate the links between tectonics, climate, and evolution at
the geological timescales, focusing on the last 100 million years. Through the supervision of
Ph.D. students and his collaboration with geologists and evolutionary biologists, he also
worked at evaluating paleoaltimetry methods with the use of an isotope-enabled atmospheric
general circulation model, as well as linking continental surface deformation, climate, and
biodiversity in Africa and Indonesia. In recent years, he led the implementation and validation
of a fast version of the IPSL Earth system model that allows running long climate integrations
dedicated to paleoclimate studies.
Aline Govin is, since 2015, a research associate at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et
de l’Environnement (LSCE, Gif sur Yvette, France). She studied Earth Sciences at the Ecole
Normale Supérieure of Paris (France) and obtained in 2008 a Ph.D. thesis in paleoclimatology
jointly issued by the University of Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines (France) and the
University of Bergen (Norway). Before joining the LSCE, she worked for five years as a
postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM, University of
Bremen) in Germany.
Her research activities focus on the reconstruction of paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic
changes by applying various types of geochemical and sedimentological tracers on marine
sediment cores. She has mostly worked on the Earth’s climatic changes of the last 150,000
years and is an expert of the last interglacial climate, which is an excellent case study to
investigate the response of the Earth’s climate to past warming conditions that could be
encountered in the coming decades. Her research interests include the past variability of the
deep North Atlantic circulation, the responses, and drivers of tropical monsoon systems (e.g.,
South American Monsoon), the development and calibration of paleo-tracers, the development
of robust chronologies across archives, and the quantification of related uncertainties, as well
as the comparison of paleo-reconstructions to climate model simulations of past climates.
She has authored around 30 scientific publications and has been involved in many French,
German, and other international (e.g., Brazilian) projects.
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About the Editors