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Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, LOV
Institut de la Mer de Villefranche, IMEV
181 Chemin du Lazaret
06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer (France)

Associate professor

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Roberta Hamme

Current position :

2014-Present: Associate Professor

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Hosted

Employer :

University of Victoria, Canada

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Hosting Lab :

LOV (UMR 7093)

Keywords :

dissolved gases, carbon cycle, Argo floats, oxygen, marine biological productivity, water mass ventilation, denitrification

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Roberta Hamme is a Canadian chemical oceanographer from the University of Victoria, visiting LOV for a one-year sabbatical. Her research group makes and uses observations of dissolved gases to answer questions about the marine carbon cycle. They have been using oxygen measurements from Argo floats to investigate air-sea interactions and deoxygenation. Her lab makes high precision discrete measurements of noble gases to understand how physical processes affect gases, of oxygen/argon ratios to quantify biological productivity, and of nitrogen/argon ratios to determine nutrient loss by denitrification and related processes. Her group also collaborates with modellers to investigate these same processes in numerical simulations.

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Sciences-Sur-Mer

As part of the Year of the Ocean, the Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche is actively participating in two major events: the One Ocean Science Congress and l’UNOC’3.
Our unit’s staff will take part in scientific discussions and associated events, and will also contribute to the “Sciences-sur-Mer” Festival (June 7–13, Villefranche-sur-Mer), which aims to strengthen the link between science and society by offering opportunities for dialogue between stakeholders and inviting both the general public and school groups to take part.