My picture Thierry HUCK <thuck(at)univ-brest.fr>
French, born in 1969, English fluent

Laboratoire de Physique des Océans
(UMR 6523 CNRS IFREMER IRD UBO)
Université de Bretagne Occidentale, UFR Sciences F.308
6 avenue Le Gorgeu, CS 93837, 29238 Brest Cedex 3, FRANCE
Tel.: +33 298-016510 - Fax: +33 298-016468
WWW: http://www.ifremer.fr/lpo/thuck/

Research scientist investigating the role of the ocean circulation in climate variations,
Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography, French Engineering Diploma in Marine Environment and Naval Architecture.

RECENT OCCUPATIONS

  • Since Jan.2000 : Research scientist at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). Focused on the variability of the large-scale ocean circulation through observations (Ovide repeated hydrographic section), theory (basin modes) and models: stability and variability of the thermohaline circulation, conceptual and simplified climate models, investigation of the mechanisms responsible for climate variability over the North Atlantic in the CLImate VARiability and Predictability (CLIVAR) international framework and the French Program in Climate Dynamic Studies (PNEDC, LEFE).
    Laboratoire de Physique des Océans, Brest, France.
    - Chief scientist for the Ovide 2004 cruise aboard French R/V Thalassa, and CTD chief operator for the Ovide 2002 (Thalassa) and 2006 (German R/V Meriam) cruises: repeated hydrographic section between Portugal and Greenland.
    - Teaching of General Oceanography classes for last year engineering school ISEN (2000-2008), and PhD classes on the General Ocean Circulation (UBO).
    - Supervision of 2 PhD students (O. Arzel, 2000-2004; F. Sévellec, 2003-2007), 2 postdocs and several Masters.
  • Sept.1998-Dec.1999: Research associate (Pr. Geoffrey Vallis). Simplifed coupled ocean-atmosphere modeling and investigation of climate decadal variability mechanisms, participation in the Mesoscale Experiments in the Southern Ocean (MESO) project.
    Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton University, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, USA.
  • Sept.1997-Sept.1998: Postdoctoral researcher with Pr. Geoffrey Vallis. Analysis of the robustness of the interdecadal variability in ocean models forced by quasiconstant surface buoyancy fluxes: eddy-resolving simulations, wind-forcing, bottom topography.
    Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
  • Feb.1997-Sept.1997: Temporary research and teaching assistant (ATER). Courses of applied mathematics for third year university student in physics. Large-scale ocean circulation and climate related research.
    Laboratoire de Physique des Océans, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France.
  • Oct.1996-Jan.1997: Last months of Ph.D. thesis scholarship: writing of thesis dissertation and research projects within the french contribution to the CLIVAR program, submission of related papers, research on the decadal oscillations mechanism in ocean thermohaline circulation models forced by constant surface buoyancy flux.
    Laboratoire de Physique des Océans, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France.
  • Jan.1995-Sept.1996: Research assistant with Pr. Andrew Weaver, as a compulsory french national service abroad ("cooperation"): simplified models of the ocean thermohaline circulation, comparison of momentum dissipation parameterizations, analysis of decadal variability in ocean models under constant flux forcing.
    School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada.


    OCEANOGRAPHIC EDUCATION

  • Oct.1997: Ph.D. thesis in Physical Oceanography "Modeling the oceanic thermohaline circulation: analysis of its interdecadal variability" under the supervision of Pr. Alain Colin de Verdière.
    Laboratoire de Physique des Océans, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France.
  • Sept.1992: Diplôme d'Études Approfondies (M.Sc. level or first year graduate school) in Physical Oceanography, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France. Honors: "Bien"; Rank: 1st of class. including a 3 months training period with Dr. Herlé Mercier about the analysis of the Romanche fracture zone hydrography: water masses from the Atlantic, hydraulic control, rate of topography-induced mixing.
    Laboratoire de Physique des Océans, IFREMER, Brest, France.


    OTHER OCEANOGRAPHIC EXPERIENCE

  • June-July 2006: CTD chief operator and sampling aboard the German Research Vessel Maria S. Meriam for the third Ovide cruise from Lisbon to Greenland and Faroe.
  • June-July 2004: Chief scientist for the French Research Vessel Thalassa cruise Ovide 2 realizing a hydrographic transect between Greenland and Portugal and currentmeter moorings deployement along the Greenland slope.
  • June-July 2002: CTD operator and sampling aboard the French Research Vessel Thalassa cruise Ovide 1, a hydrographic transect between Greenland and Portugal.
  • Jul.1997: NATO Advanced Study Institute "Modeling the earth's climate and its variability", 4 weeks, Les Houches, France.
  • Apr.1997: European Geophysical Society annual meeting 1997, Vienna, Austria.
  • Jul.1996: Summer School in Climate Modeling, organized by NCAR (J. Kiel, J. McWilliams) 2 weeks, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego.
  • Jan.-Apr.1996: "Atmosphere-Ocean System" graduate course with Pr. Inez Fung, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.
  • May96: Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society annual congress, May 27th-May 30th 1996, Toronto, ONT, Canada.
  • Oct.1995: Climate Variability Group workshop, University of Victoria, October 20th 1995, Victoria, BC, Canada.
  • May95: Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society annual congress, May 29th-June 2nd 1995, Kelowna, BC, Canada.
  • Feb.1995: NATO Advanced Study Institute on Decadal Climate Variability: Dynamics and Predictability. February 13th-24th 1995, Les Houches, France.
  • June1994: Environmental Dynamics Summer School: The general circulation of the ocean, 2 weeks, Venice, Italy.
  • Jan.-Mar.1993: CTD chief operator of a watch aboard the french research vessel Marion Dufresne CIVA1 cruise for WOCE 30°Est section across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current; plus water salinity measurements onboard during the last month. 3 months.
  • Sept.1992: Geophysical and Environmental Fluid Dynamics Summer School, 2 weeks, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge, England.


    TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • 2001-2008: General Oceanography for last year engineering school students.
    ISEN, Brest, France.
  • 2001, 2003: The ocean general circulation: forcing, stability, variability (master and graduate level).
    Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France.
  • 1997: Applied mathematics for physicist, third year university level (96 hr).
    Teaching and research associate (ATER), Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France.
  • 1994: 10 lectures for a general oceanography course at the Naval College, Brest, France.
  • 1993: Teaching assistant for 'Numerical methods in oceanography' graduate course,
    Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France.

    ENGINEERING EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

  • Sept.1988-Jun.1991: Engineer Diploma at the National Engineering School in Advanced Technologies (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, Paris, France) Specialty in marine environment and naval architecture (hydrodynamics and fluid mechanics; also a broad general knowledge in computer science, numerical and theoretical mathematics, mechanics, electronic and engineering).
  • 3 years involvement in the school project for the design and building of a catamaran competing for the sailing speed record, as the vice-president of the association (with a $500,000 budget), but also for research and numerical development in the computation of wing-profiles lift and drag using finite element methods.
  • Oct.1990-Jun.1991: training period at Sedco Forex, Schlumberger (Montrouge, France) about semi-submersible oil-rig stability for a Marine Operations Manual upgrade.

  • Jul.-Sept.1990: Summer courses in mechanics, fluid mechanics and philosophy, Ole Miss University, Oxford, Mississippi, USA.
  • Jan.-Mar.1989: training period in the computer center of the French Institute for Marine Research (IFREMER, Brest, France): numerical cartography from multi-beam sonar data using cubic splines functions.
  • Sept.1986-Jun.1988: scientific preparatory school for engineering school entry examination consisting mainly in mathematics, physics and chemistry.
    Lycée Faidherbe, Lille, France.
  • Jun.86: French Baccalaureate C (Science). Honors: "Bien".
    Lycée Jean Perrin, Lille, France.

    CONTRIBUTIONS TO RESEARCH

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    HOBBIES

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    updated 14mar2008