Marie Corinne Lyne Le Quéré[1] CBE FRS (born July 1966) is a Canadian scientist. She is Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science at the University of East Anglia[2] and former Director of Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. She is the chair of the French High Council on Climate and member of the UK Climate Change Committee. Her research focuses on the interactions between the carbon cycle and climate change.[3]
Corinne Le Quéré | |
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| Born | July 1966 (age 58) Quebec, Canada |
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| Fields | Climatology |
| Institutions | University of East Anglia |
| Website | people |
Education
editLe Quéré received her B.Sc. in physics from University of Montreal, an M.S. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from McGill University, and a Ph.D. in oceanography from University of Paris VI.[4]
Personal and early life
editLe Quéré was born in Quebec in 1966 and as a child spent her camping holidays in the national parks of Eastern Canada which fostered her interest in the natural world.[5][6] She left high school in 1984 and enrolled for a course in general studies in a small university near to her home in Gatineau prior to transferring to the University of Montreal to study physics.[6]
Le Quéré later became a British Citizen and holds both French and Canadian passports. She is now married to her second husband and has a daughter from her first marriage, Marianne, who she raised partly as a single mother.[6]
On 3 February 2023, Le Quéré was a guest on BBC's Desert Island Discs on Radio 4 (presented by Lauren Laverne). As an imaginary Castaway she chose a mask and snorkel as her luxury items and, for her favourite disc, La Vida Es Un Carnaval by Celia Cruz. For her book, she chose World Atlas of the Oceans[7] by Dave Monahan.[5][8]
Career and research
editShe was co-chair of the Global Carbon Project (GCP) from 2009 until 2013.[9] Within the GCP, she initiated and directed for over a decade the annual publication of the Global Carbon Budget.[10][11] During 2014-2017 she has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the Future Earth platform for sustainability research.[12][4] She is author of the 3rd, 4th and 5th assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. She conducted research at Princeton University in the US (1992–1996), at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany (2000–2005), and jointly between the UEA and the British Antarctic Survey in the UK (2005–2010).
Honours and awards
editIn 2012, Le Quéré was awarded the Claude Berthault award from the French Academy of Sciences,[13] the first Copernicus medal of the Copernicus Gesellschaft e.V. in 2013/2014,[14] and was the annual Bolin lecturer in Stockholm University in 2014.[15]
In 2015, she received a Blaise Pascal Medal for Earth and Environmental Sciences from the European Academy of Sciences[16] and the Grande Médaille Albert 1er de Monaco, Science section.[17]
In 2016, Le Quéré was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[18]
In 2016, she was listed among the 20 "women making waves in the climate change debate" on the Road to Paris.[19]
In 2019, Le Quéré was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to climate change science.[1]
In 2019, she also won the Prince Albert I Medal[20] and was made a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour.[21]
In 2020, she received the Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences for her interdisciplinary research on the interactions between climate change and the carbon cycle.[22]
Selected publications
editA full list of Le Quéré's peer-reviewed publications can be found on her Publons profile.[23]
- Fossil CO2 emissions in the post-COVID-19 era (2021). Le Quéré, C. et al., Nature Climate Change, 11, 197–199, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01001-0.
- Temporary reduction in daily global CO2 emissions during the COVID-19 forced confinement (2020). Le Quéré, C. et al., Nature Climate Change, 10, 647–653, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0797-x.
- Global Carbon Budget 2020 (2020). Friedlingstein et al., 12, 3269–3340, https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/12/3269/2020/.
- Drivers of declining CO2 emissions in 18 developed economies (2019). Le Quéré, C. et al., Nature Climate Change, 5, 213-217, https://rdcu.be/bor0g.
- Decadal trends in the ocean carbon sink (2019). DeVries, T., C. Le Quéré, et al., PNAS, 118, 11646-11651, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1900371116.
- Role of zooplankton dynamics for Southern Ocean phytoplankton biomass and global biogeochemical cycles (2016). Le Quéré, C. et al., Biogeosciences, 23, 4111-4133, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-4111-2016.
- Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide (2009). Le Quéré, C. et al., Nature Geoscience, 6, 831-836, https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo689.
References
edit- ^ a b "No. 62666". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 June 2019. p. B9.
- ^ "Corinne Le Quéré web page". University of East Anglia (UEA). Retrieved 21 March 2021.
- ^ "Research publications of Corinne Le Quéré". Publons. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
- ^ a b "Corinne Le Quere Biography". Tyndall.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
- ^ a b "BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Professor Corinne Le Quéré, climate scientist". BBC. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
- ^ a b c "The Hot List: Meet Corinne Le Quéré, a woman at top of climate science". Reuters. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
- ^ "Dave Monahan > Compare Discount Book Prices & Save up to 90% > ISBNS.net". www.isbns.net. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
- ^ "Desert Island Discs". Radio Times. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
- ^ "GCP : Global Carbon Project : Homepage". Global Carbon Project. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
- ^ "Carbon Budget". Globalcarbonproject.org. 14 November 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
- ^ IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, for which Dr. Le Quéré is a lead author.
- ^ "Home". Future Earth. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
- ^ "Prix de Mme Claude Berthault: Lauréat d'année 2014" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 February 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ^ "Copernicus e.V. - Medal". Copernicus-gesellschaft.org. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
- ^ "Science Forum with Prof. Corinne Le Quéré, Bolin Climate Lecturer 2014 - Faculty of Science". Science.su.se. Archived from the original on 31 May 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
- ^ "The Blaise Pascal Medals 2015". Archived from the original on 13 January 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
- ^ "Grande médailles". Institut Océanographique, Fondation Albert 1er, Prince de Monaco. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
- ^ "Corinne Le Quéré". Royal Society. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
- ^ "20 women making waves in the climate change debate - Road to Paris - ICSU". Roadtoparis.info. 8 June 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2016.
- ^ http://iapso.iugg.org/awards-and-honors/the-prince-albert-i-medal25.html Archived 14 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine Prince Albert I Medal
- ^ "Loi n° PRER1910335D du 13 juillet 2019 portant promotion et nomination", Journal Officiel de la République Française (in French), 14 July 2019
- ^ "UEA professor wins international environmental sciences prize for climate change research". University of East Anglia. 3 June 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
- ^ "Research publications of Corinne Le Quéré". Publons. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
External links
edit- The life scientific: Corinne Le Quéré on the global carbon cycle, BBC, 2019.
- Inside the mind of a climate change scientist, TEDxWarwick, April 2019.