Global Change in Africa
暫譯: 非洲的全球變遷

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.

安妮·卡澤納夫（Anny Cazenave）是法國圖盧茲「地球物理與空間海洋學研究所」（Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiale）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。

大衛·巴拉圖（David Baratoux）是法國可持續發展國家研究院的高級科學家，也是圖盧茲地球科學環境實驗室（Geosciences Environnement Toulouse, GET）的研究員。他是西非負責任採礦國際聯合實驗室（Joint International Laboratory for Responsible Mining in West Africa, LMI MINERWA）的創始人和共同主任。他在2014年至2018年間在塞內加爾達喀爾的謝赫·安塔·迪奧普大學（University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, UCAD）工作，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（University Félix Houphouët-Boigny）任職。他還積極參與在非洲推廣行星和空間科學，並被塞內加爾總統授予國家獅子勳章的官員。

特奧多莉娜·洛佩斯（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。經歷了在法國的多個博士後職位後，她於2016年至2019年在瑞士伯爾尼的國際空間科學研究所（International Space Science Institute, ISSI）擔任地球科學博士後研究員。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的使用，以服務於地方和公共實體。

讓·卡恩·庫阿梅（Jean Kan Kouamé）自2017年以來擔任地球科學與礦產資源學院（UFR of Earth Sciences and Mining Resources）的講師和研究員，並擔任遙感研究與應用大學中心（CURAT）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（GIS）。在2009年於加拿大魁北克省阿比提比-泰米斯卡明的魁北克大學阿莫斯校區進行有關阿比讓地區有毒廢物污染物轉移建模的博士後研究後，庫阿梅回到母校，並於2015年主導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博努阿水庫的保護範圍。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科孔博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。

杰羅姆·本維尼斯特（Jérôme Benveniste）於1989年在法國圖盧茲大學獲得海洋學博士學位。之後，他在美國麻省理工學院（MIT）進行海洋模型的空間數據同化博士後研究，隨後轉至歐洲航天局（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開發項目，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。他是2011年出版的斯普林格（Springer）書籍《沿海區域雷達高度計》的共同編輯，並自此以來編輯了多本其他書籍。他還是一本同行評審的科學期刊的編輯，以及五本期刊特刊的客座編輯。杰羅姆·本維尼斯特啟動並監督氣候變化倡議海平面項目（2009年至今）及其當前聚焦於沿海區域的後續項目，以及其他有關海平面預算關閉、徑流、河流排放、海洋熱含量、東邊界上升系統和沿海危害的項目。

洛雷娜·莫雷拉（Lorena Moreira）是一位地球觀測科學家，專注於兩個重要的氣候變數：臭氧和海平面。她共同撰寫了約15篇出版物，包括《大氣化學與物理》、《皇家學會A期刊會議錄》、《地球行星與空間》、《全球與行星變化》、《遙感》、《地球物理學調查》等。莫雷拉博士是Mercator Ocean International的項目科學家，參與Copernicus海洋服務的海洋報告框架活動。