Career Summary

Claire Paris’ has in interdisciplinary background that combines a B.S. in Biochemistry and Mathematics at the University of Bordeaux, with a Master in Marine Biology at the Rosenstiel School and a PhD in Coastal Oceanography at SUNY Stony Brook. Her early work on the transport dynamics of tropical larvae set the groundwork that led to establish an unprecedented outlook on larval migration and marine population connectivity. Paris joined the Rosenstiel School faculty in 2009 where she focuses on the physical-biological interactions control on small planktonic organisms and their role in the resilience of marine ecosystems to stressors such as overexploitation and climate change.
With more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, her contribution to our Oceans is internationally recognized. Paris has participated in more than 20 oceanographic missions and expeditions over the world, including the Great Barrier Reefs, the Caribbean, the Red Sea, French Polynesia, the Mediterranean, and Norwegian fjords.

Awards and Leadership Positions

Paris is the recipient of the American Geophysical Unions Ocean Sciences 2018 Rachel Carson Lecture. Paris is Present-Elect of the Early Life History Section of the American Fishery Society (AFS) and is Associate Editor of Frontiers Journal of Marine Sciences. She also served in the South Atlantic Climate Variability and Fisheries Writing Team for the development of Fishery Ecosystem Plan. She led a Partner University Fund on the US side, a program funded by the French Embassy that promotes academic and research exchange between the Rosenstiel School and the UPMC in Paris and helps retain the top students in the School’s academic program.
Paris pioneered the concept of Lagrangian behavioral chambers to detect the navigation of planktonic organisms in response to environmental cues. She started a production of trademarked Drifting In situ Chamber (DISC) instruments, that are distributed to overseas laboratories for plankton research. She also released an open-source stochastic Lagrangian modeling application, the Connectivity Modeling System (CMS), broadly used to track plankton, oil spills, and other pollutants from micro-plastics to large marine debris.

Claire B Paris-Limouzy

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