Sabrina Speich

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Sabrina Speich (born June 10, 1964 in Milan ) is a German-Italian oceanographer and climate scientist . She is a professor at the École normal supérieure in Paris .

Life

Speicher studied physics at the University of Trieste , CERN and the University of Pierre and Marie Curie . She received her PhD in physical oceanography from the latter in 1992.

Act

Speicher's research deals with ocean dynamics and their role in climate change . She has made a name for herself in the field of ocean modeling .

In 2018, Speich was one of the 200 signatories of an appeal in the newspaper Le Monde , in which it was warned of drastic consequences such as the extinction of human species, unless a rapid rethinking of problem areas such as climate change and the extinction of species and wider planetary limits occurs.

For 2019, Speich was awarded the Albert Defant Medal of the German Meteorological Society .

Publications (selection)

  • S. Speich, H. Dijkstra and M. Ghil: Successive bifurcations in a shallow-water model applied to the wind-driven ocean circulation. In: Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics . Volume 2, 1995, pp. 241-268.
  • S. Speich, B. Blanke, P. De Vries, S. Drijfhout, K. Döös, A. Ganachaud and R. Marsh: Tasman leakage: A new route in the global ocean conveyor belt. In: Geophysical Research Letters . Volume 29, No. 10, 2002, 55-1.
  • S. Sunagawa et al .: Structure and function of the global ocean microbiome. In: Science . Volume 348, No. 6237, 2015, 1261359.

Individual evidence

  1. Vita
  2. a b c d Sabrina SPEICH - Team - SOCLIM , accessed on May 26, 2019
  3. "Le plus grand défi de l'histoire de l'humanité": l'appel de 200 personnalités pour sauver la planète. Le Monde, September 3, 2018, accessed May 26, 2019