Global Change in Africa

Anny Cazenave is an Emeritus scientist at the 'Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiale', Toulouse, France. Her research deals with the applications of space techniques to geosciences (geodesy, solid Earth geophysics, sea level change and climatic causes, land hydrology from space).
David Baratoux is a senior scientist at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable development, and researcher at the laboratory Geosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET). He is the founder and co-director of the Joint International Laboratory for Responsible Mining in West Africa (LMI MINERWA). He was affected during 4 years (2014 - 2018) at the University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar (UCAD, Senegal) and is currently working (2021 - 2025) at the University Félix Houphouët-Boigny in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. He is also strongly involved in the promotion of planetary and space sciences in Africa and was made Officer of the National Order of the Lion, by the President of Senegal.
Teodolina Lopez is a researcher and project manager at Cerema. She received a Ph.D. degree in planetary science from the University Toulouse III in 2011. After different post-doctoral positions in France, she held an Earth Science post-doctoral position, from 2016 to 2019, at the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern, Switzerland. Her research focuses on the characterisation in (semi-) arid regions of the groundwater flow and transfers and their interaction with the atmosphere. This approach relies on the synergy between Earth Observation dataset (mostly thermal infrared and gravity) with in situ measurements (geophysical, geochemical and geology) and simulations. She also promotes the use of various Earth Observation data to local and public entities.
Jean Kan Kouamé, Lecturer and Researcher at the UFR of Earth Sciences and Mining Resources and Director of the University Centre for Research and Application in Remote Sensing (CURAT) since 2017, obtained his PhD in Earth Sciences, option: Hydrogeology and GIS, at the University of Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in 2007. After a post-doc at the Amos campus of the University of Quebec in Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Quebec, Canada) on the modelling of the transfer of pollutants contained in the toxic waste dumped in the District of Abidjan, in 2009, KOUAME Kan Jean rejoiced his University of origin and led a project financed by the Strategic Support Programme for Research and Higher Education (PASRES) on the demarcation of the protection perimeters of the Bonoua catchment works (South-East of Ivory Coast) in 2015. Since 2017, he is Director of CURAT and works with earth observation tools applied to the field of the Environment and especially the impacts of the practice of agriculture, uncontrolled urbanization and illegal gold panning on the vegetation cover. In March 2023, he has just carried out a test area for the re-vegetation of a gold panning site in Kokumbo, a locality located in the centre of Côte d'Ivoire, after having demonstrated the strong degradation of this area using satellite images.
Jérôme Benveniste received his PhD in Oceanography from Space from the University of Toulouse, France, in 1989. After a Post-Doc in space data assimilation in ocean models at MIT, Boston, USA, he moved to the European Space Agency. He has been at the ESA Earth Observation centre near Rome since 1992, where he is in charge of boosting the ERS-1, ERS-2, ENVISAT, CryoSat, Sentinel-3 and Sentinel-6 radar altimetry data exploitation. He interacts with ESA Principal Investigators, organises scientific symposia, and regularly launches Research and Development projects in Geodesy, Oceanography, Hydrology and the Cryosphere, including GOCE data exploitation. He was recognised as Senior Advisor at ESA in 2008 and is vice-chair of the COSPAR Earth Observation Commission. He is co-Editor of a Springer book on Coastal Zone Radar Altimetry, published in 2011 and several other books since. He is Editor of a peer-reviewed Scientific Journal and Guest-Editor of five Journal Special Issues. Jérôme Benveniste launched and monitors the Climate Change Initiative Sea Level Project (2009-present) and its current sequel focused on the Coastal Zone, as well as other projects on Sea Level Budget Closure, Runoff, River Discharge, Ocean Heat Content, Easter Boundary Upwelling Systems and Coastal Hazards.
Lorena Moreira is an Earth Observation scientist with a background in two essential climate variables, ozone and sea level. She has coauthored about 15 publications including Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Proceeding of the Roya society A, Earth Planets and Space, Global and Planetary Change, Remote Sensing, Surveys in Geophysics, etc. Dr. Moreira is a project scientist at Mercator Ocean international, contributing to the Copernicus Marine Service Ocean reporting framework activities.

Anny Cazenave 是法國圖盧茲「地球物理與空間海洋學研究所」的名譽科學家。她的研究涉及空間技術在地球科學（大地測量、固體地球物理學、海平面變化及其氣候原因、從太空觀測的陸地水文）中的應用。

David Baratoux 是法國可持續發展國家研究院的高級科學家，並且是圖盧茲環境地球科學實驗室（GET）的研究員。他是西非負責任採礦聯合國際實驗室（LMI MINERWA）的創始人和共同主任。他在2014年至2018年間曾在塞內加爾達喀爾的謝赫安塔迪奧普大學（UCAD）工作四年，並於2021年至2025年在科特迪瓦阿比讓的費利克斯·烏弗埃-博瓦尼大學工作。他也積極推廣非洲的行星與空間科學，並被塞內加爾總統授予國家獅子勳章的官員稱號。

Teodolina Lopez 是Cerema的研究員和項目經理。她於2011年在圖盧茲第三大學獲得行星科學博士學位。在法國的不同博士後職位之後，她於2016年至2019年在瑞士伯恩的國際空間科學研究所（ISSI）擔任地球科學博士後職位。她的研究專注於（半）乾旱地區地下水流動和轉移的特徵及其與大氣的相互作用。這一方法依賴於地球觀測數據集（主要是熱紅外和重力）與現場測量（地球物理、地球化學和地質）及模擬之間的協同作用。她還推廣各種地球觀測數據在地方和公共實體中的應用。

Jean Kan Kouamé 自2017年以來擔任地球科學與礦產資源學院的講師和研究員，並且是遙感研究與應用大學中心（CURAT）的主任。他於2007年在科特迪瓦阿比讓的費利克斯·烏弗埃-博瓦尼大學獲得地球科學博士學位，專攻水文地質學和地理資訊系統。2009年，他在加拿大魁北克的阿比提比-特米斯卡明大學阿莫斯校區進行了一項有關於阿比讓區域有毒廢物中污染物轉移建模的博士後研究。隨後，他回到母校，並於2015年主導了一個由研究與高等教育戰略支持計劃（PASRES）資助的項目，該項目旨在劃定科特迪瓦東南部Bonoua集水區的保護範圍。自2017年以來，他擔任CURAT主任，並利用地球觀測工具應用於環境領域，特別是農業實踐、無序城市化和非法淘金對植被覆蓋的影響。2023年3月，他剛剛在科特迪瓦中部的Kokumbo進行了一個金礦淘金地點的再植被測試區，並利用衛星影像證明該地區的嚴重退化。

Jérôme Benveniste 於1989年在法國圖盧茲大學獲得海洋學博士學位，專攻空間海洋學。之後，他在美國麻省理工學院進行了海洋模型中的空間數據同化博士後研究，隨後轉至歐洲太空總署（ESA）。自1992年以來，他一直在位於羅馬附近的ESA地球觀測中心工作，負責推動ERS-1、ERS-2、ENVISAT、CryoSat、Sentinel-3和Sentinel-6雷達高度計數據的利用。他與ESA的主要研究人員互動，組織科學研討會，並定期啟動地球測量、海洋學、水文學和冰圈等領域的研究與發展項目，包括GOCE數據的利用。他於2008年被認可為ESA的高級顧問，並擔任COSPAR地球觀測委員會的副主席。他還是一本關於沿海區域雷達高度計的Springer書籍的共同編輯。