Jean-Luc Le Blanc's cv

Having gained some experience in climate-fisheries relationships, I am very interested in inter-disciplinary projects involving specialists from different sectors such as sicentists, politics, economics, lawyers etc., in order to find common interests. It is my belief that progress achieved in the knowledge of climate enables the integration of scientific information in socio-economic activities. I am therefore willing to participate in the development of services which could be usefully applied in sustainable development programmes.

Education-Diplomas
1996	PhD :"The role of the Indian Ocean in the Global Climate System" - Southampton Oceanographic Center (SOC) UK - (in course part-time).
1993-1994	D.E.A (fifth year of University) "OCEANS", Options: Physics and Dynamics of the Ocean-University of Brest/U.B.O (Brittany-France).
1991-1992	Maitrise of Fundamental Physics-Denis Diderot University, PARIS7 Options: Meteorology, Biophysics, Organic Chemistry; (with Honours )
1987-1988	General Certificate of Education (Baccalaureat D: Maths, Physics and Biology); International School of Ferney-Voltaire (France).
1986	Ordinary Level - University of Cambridge (UK) - (Maths:A; French:A; German:B).

Professional Experiences
Consultant for UN's IDNDR (International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction); "Strategic Approaches of the UN system to Freshwater Resources Management". (December 1997).
Consultant for WMO (World Meteorological Organisation)-Geneva ; contribution to the CLIPS (Climate Information and Prediction Services) Project . September-December 1996.
Consultant for an IOC (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission)/UNESCO Workshop on Coastal Oceanography and Integrated Coastal Zone Management - Comoros Islands, December 1996.Workshop Report N°130
French National Service at IRD (ORSTOM) (French Scientific Research Institute for Development and Co-operation) station in the Seychelles; February 1995 - June 1996.
D.E.A. training course at IRD (ORSTOM) in Noumea (New-Caledonia); May - September 1994.
Volunteer Work for a N.G.O (Non Governmental Organisation) on behalf of the orphanage "Casa de Copii" in Abrud-Rumania; November 1994 - February 1995.
Volunteer Work for the Bhagavatula Charitable Trust , an N.G.O dedicated to rural development in Andhra Pradesh (India); November 1992 - May 1993; (Illiterate Children Insertion Program.)

*Languages:*	French, English and German written and spoken.
*Skills in computing :*	Fortran, Matlab, MS Office, Surfer, Statgraphics, (UNIX-Linux / DOS/MacIntosh).

*Reports and Articles:*

Le Blanc J-L, 1994:"Heat and Fresh water Fluxes over the tropical Pacific Ocean using an indirect method" (D.E.A. Honours Thesis in French)
Le Blanc J-L, 1996: "The role of the Indian Ocean in the Global Climate System: Interannual hydro-climatic variability and ENSO in the Indian Ocean." Thesis Proposal. (p. 34; unpublished)
Marsac F. and J-L Le Blanc, 1997: "Response of Indian Ocean Yellowfin tuna fisheries to the coupled ocean-atmosphere system. Inter-annual variability associated with ENSO." ICCAT Symposium-Acores-June 1996.
Le Blanc J-L, 1997: "Climate Information and Prediction Services for Fisheries". WMO/TD-No.788; WCASP-39 .
Le Blanc J-L, 1996 : " L'océanographie climatique appliquée à la pêche : Le cas de la pêcherie thonière dans l'Océan Indien. " in : Rapport de réunion de travail de la COI No. 130. Annexe III. Présentation No. 7. Atelier régional de la COI sur l'océanographie côtière et la gestion de la zone côtière. Moroni, RFI des Comores ; 16-19 Décembre 1996.
R. Payet, Le Blanc J-L, F. Marsac, 1997: "Climate Change and Fisheries inthe Seychelles: A contribution to enable the Seychelles National Climate Comittee to prepare their first national communication to the UNFCCC."
Le Blanc J-L, 1997 : Freshwater Management and Natural Disaster. Strategic approaches to reduce the impacts of natural disasters on freshwater resources and its supply. International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) / World Meteorological Organization (WMO), contribution to the sixth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) April 1998. Input for the Report of the Secretary General on Strategic Approaches to Freshwater Management.
Le Blanc J-L, 1998 : " Why study the Indian Ocean ? " - A bibliographical and historical review ... Le Blanc J-L and Francis Marsac, 1999: Climate Information and Prediction Services for Fisheries: the case of tuna fisheries, CLIMAR99-WMO Workshop on Advances in Marine Climatology, Vancouver (CA) September 1999. (abstarct) Le Blanc, J.-L., and Boulanger, J.-P., Propagation and Reflection of Long Equatorial Waves in the Indian Ocean from TOPEX/POSEIDON Data during the 1993-1998 Period, Clim. Dyn., (2001) 17: 547-557. *All papers are available on request.