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Benedicte Ferré

Job description

Senior researcher at the institute of Geosciences at UiT, group leader for WP4 (water column) at CAGE (cage.uit.no).

Main interest: processes and variability of methane release, as well as interaction with and from the environmental settings.  

Currently guest researcher at MARUM (Univeristy of Bremen)

  • Benedicte Ferré, Thibaut Barreyre, Stefan Bünz, Claudio Argentino, Jorge Corrales-Guerrero, Knut Ola Dølven et al.:
    Contrasting Methane Seepage Dynamics in the Hola Trough Offshore Norway: Insights From Two Different Summers
    Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR): Oceans 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Tim de Groot, Dimitri Stanislas Desire Kalenitchenko, Manuel Moser, Claudio Argentino, Giuliana Panieri, Johan Matteus Lindgren et al.:
    Methanotroph activity and connectivity between two seep systems north off Svalbard
    Frontiers in Earth Science 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Muhammed Fatih Sert, Hannah Schweitzer, Tim R. de Groot, Timo Kekäläinen, Janne Jänis, Hans Christopher Bernstein et al.:
    Elevated methane alters dissolved organic matter composition in the Arctic Ocean cold seeps
    Frontiers in Earth Science 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Knut Ola Dølven, Benedicte Ferré, Anna Silyakova, Pär Jansson, Peter Linke, Manuel Moser :
    Autonomous methane seep site monitoring offshore western Svalbard: hourly to seasonal variability and associated oceanographic parameters
    Ocean Science 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Andreia Plaza-Faverola, Sunil Vadakkepuliyambatta, Sunny Singhroha, Wei-Li Hong, Kate Alyse Waghorn, Amando Putra Ersaid Lasabuda et al.:
    Gas Hydrate Related Bottom-Simulating Reflections Along the West-Svalbard Margin, Fram Strait
    Springer Nature 2022 DOI
  • Muhammed Fatih Sert, Helge Niemann, Eoghan Reeves, Mats A. Granskog, Kevin P. Hand, Timo Kekäläinen et al.:
    Compositions of dissolved organic matter in the ice-covered waters above the Aurora hydrothermal vent system, Gakkel Ridge, Arctic Ocean
    Biogeosciences 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Eva Ramirez-Llodra, Claudio Argentino, Maria Baker, Antje Boetius, Carolina Costa, Håkon Dahle et al.:
    Hot Vents Beneath an Icy Ocean: The Aurora Vent Field, Gakkel Ridge, Revealed
    Oceanography 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Knut Ola Dølven, Juha Vierinen, Roberto Grilli, Jack Triest, Benedicte Ferré :
    Response time correction of slow-response sensor data by deconvolution of the growth-law equation
    Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Friederike Gründger, David Probandt, Katrin Knittel, Vincent Carrier, Dimitri Kalenitchenko, Anna Silyakova et al.:
    Seasonal shifts of microbial methane oxidation in Arctic shelf waters above gas seeps
    Limnology and Oceanography 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Benedicte Ferré, Pär Jansson, Manuel Moser, Pavel Serov, Aleksei D Portnov, Carolyn Graves et al.:
    Reduced methane seepage from Arctic sediments during cold bottom-water conditions
    Nature Geoscience 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Muhammed Fatih Sert, Juliana D’Andrilli, Friederike Gründger, Helge Niemann, Mats Granskog, Alexey K. Pavlov et al.:
    Compositional differences in dissolved organic matter between Arctic cold seeps versus non-seep sites at the Svalbard continental margin and the Barents sea
    Frontiers in Earth Science 07. December 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Arunima Sen, Tobias Himmler, Wei-Li Hong, Chestaa Chitkara, Raymond W. Lee, Benedicte Ferré et al.:
    Atypical biological features of a new cold seep site on the Lofoten-Vesterålen continental margin (northern Norway)
    Scientific Reports 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Pär Jansson, Jack Triest, Roberto Grilli, Benedicte Ferré, Anna Silyakova, Jurgen Mienert et al.:
    High-resolution underwater laser spectrometer sensing provides new insights into methane distribution at an Arctic seepage site
    Ocean Science 2019 DATA / ARKIV / DOI
  • Pär Jansson, Benedicte Ferré, Anna Silyakova, Knut Ola Dølven, Anders Omstedt :
    A new numerical model for understanding free and dissolved gas progression toward the atmosphere in aquatic methane seepage systems
    Limnology and Oceanography : Methods 2019 DATA / ARKIV / DOI
  • Anna Silyakova, Pär Jansson, Pavel Serov, Benedicte Ferré, A.K Pavlov, Tore Hattermann et al.:
    Physical controls of dynamics of methane venting from a shallow seep area west of Svalbard
    Continental Shelf Research 2019 ARKIV / DATA / DOI
  • Giacomo Osti, Kate Alyse Waghorn, Malin Waage, Andreia Plaza-Faverola, Benedicte Ferré :
    Evolution of contourite drifts in regions of slope failures at eastern Fram Strait
    Arktos 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Stephen Matthew Platt, Sabine Eckhardt, Benedicte Ferré, Rebecca E. Fisher, Ove Hermansen, Pär Jansson et al.:
    Methane at Svalbard and over the European Arctic Ocean
    Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) 2018 ARKIV / DOI
  • Christopher R. Sherwood, Alfredo L. Aretxabaleta, Courtney K. Harris, J. Paul Rinehimer, Romaric Verney, Benedicte Ferré :
    Cohesive and mixed sediment in the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS v3.6) implemented in the Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere–Wave–Sediment Transport Modeling System (COAWST r1234)
    Geoscientific Model Development 2018 ARKIV / DOI
  • Fereshteh Hemmateenejad, Luca Fallati, Giuliana Panieri, Pedro Ribeiro, Chiara Fusca, Benedicte Ferré et al.:
    Substrate attributes as a driver for benthic communities: image analysis techniques on the Norskebanken cold seep site (Arctic Ocean)
    2024
  • Claudio Argentino, Abidemi Akinselure, Luca Fallati, Alessandra Savini, Benedicte Ferré, Giuliana Panieri :
    Biogeochemical processes affecting the distribution of chemosynthetic communities at a cold-water coral site off the Vesterålen coast, Northern Norway
    2023
  • Knut Ola Dølven, Benedicte Ferré, Peter Linke :
    Measuring Methane in the Arctic Ocean - From legal framework to time series analysis via technology innovation
    UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2022 FULLTEKST
  • Benedicte Ferré, Manuel Moser :
    Strong interannual and seasonal variability of methane release inferred from repeated hydroacoustic surveys
    2022
  • Chiara Fusca, Luca Fallati, Alessandra Savini, Claudio Argentino, Benedicte Ferré, Giuliana Panieri :
    Classification of arctic seafloor based on object-based image analisys (OBIA) techniques
    2022
  • Fereshteh Hemmateenejad, Pedro A Ribeiro, Luca Fallati, Benedicte Ferré, Alessandra Savini, Giuliana Panieri :
    Diversity, structure and environmental drivers of benthic epifaunal communities on Norskebanken cold seep site based on seafloor image analysis
    2022
  • Fereshteh Hemmateenejad, Pedro Ribeiro, Luca Fallati, Benedicte Ferré, Alessandra Savini, Giuliana Panieri :
    Diversity, structure and environmental drivers of benthic epifaunal communities on one Arctic cold seep site based on seafloor image analysis
    2022
  • Benedicte Ferré, Knut Ola Dølven, Anna Silyakova, Pär Jansson, Peter Linke, Manuel Moser :
    Hourly to seasonal variability of methane release and associated oceanic settings offshore Western Svalbard
    2022
  • Marie Helene Paula Stetzler, Benedicte Ferré, Muhammed Fatih Sert, Monica Winsborrow, Mario E. Veloso-Alarcon, Yoann Ladroit :
    Methane fluxes and distributions in the water column at an intense seepage site in the central Barents Sea
    2022
  • Stephen Matthew Platt, Cathrine Lund Myhre, Kerstin Stebel, Rona Louise Thompson, Christine Groot Zwaaftink, Ignacio Pisso et al.:
    An overview of the project ‘ReGAME - Reliable Global Methane Emissions estimates in a changing world’
    2022
  • Tim de Groot, Dimitri Kalenitchenko, Manuel Moser, Benedicte Ferré, Claudio Argentino, Giuliana Panieri et al.:
    Methanotroph connectivity between two seep systems north of Svalbard
    2022
  • Benedicte Ferré, Giuliana Panieri, Claudio Argentino, Muhammed Fatih Sert, Marie Helene Paula Stetzler, Luca Fallati et al.:
    EMAN7 cruise CAGE 22-3
    UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2022 FULLTEKST
  • Chiara Fusca, Luca Fallati, Alessandra Savini, Claudio Argentino, Benedicte Ferré, Giuliana Panieri :
    Classification Of Arctic Seafloor Based On Object-Based Image Analysis (OBIA) Techniques
    2022
  • Benedicte Ferré, Knut Ola Dølven, Muhammed Fatih Sert, Manuel Moser :
    Overvåking av metan i vannet
    Ottar 2022 FULLTEKST
  • Knut Ola Dølven, Juha Vierinen, Roberto Grilli, Jack Triest, Benedicte Ferré :
    Response time correction of membrane equilibrium based methane sensor data
    2022 SAMMENDRAG
  • Marie Helene Paula Stetzler, Benedicte Ferré :
    Hydro-acoustic analysis of free gas seepage: detection, flux estimate and variability offshore Svalbard
    2021
  • Benedicte Ferré :
    Methane release and variability
    2021 FULLTEKST
  • Benedicte Ferré :
    Methane release and variability offshore Svalbard
    2021
  • Jenny Friedrich, Benedicte Ferré, Sebastian Krastel :
    Seasonal variability of methane seep distribution and intensity offshore western Svalbard at the edge and outside the gas hydrate stability zone
    UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2021
  • Benedicte Ferré, Pär Jansson, Manuel Moser, Pavel Serov, Aleksei D Portnov, Carolyn Graves et al.:
    Cold seep hibernation in the Arctic sediments during cold bottom water conditions 
    2020 SAMMENDRAG
  • Manuel Moser, Benoît Bergès, Alfred Hanssen, Benedicte Ferré :
    Long-term multibeam monitoring of natural methane seepage offshore Prins Karls Forland, Svalbard 
    2020 SAMMENDRAG
  • Benedicte Ferré :
    CAGE-20-7 Cruise Report. Sediment and water column analyses around flares at Norskebanken, Hinlopen and offshore Prins Karls Forland
    UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2020 FULLTEKST
  • Benedicte Ferré :
    K-lander recovery and water column survey offshore Svalbard and in the Barents Sea
    UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2020 FULLTEKST
  • Thibaut Barreyre, Ilker Fer, Benedicte Ferré :
    The Norwegian node for the European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory
    2020 SAMMENDRAG
  • Pär Jansson, Benedicte Ferré, Anna Silyakova, Knut Ola Dølven, Anders Omstedt :
    A new numerical model for understanding free and dissolved gas dynamics in the water column
    2019
  • Knut Ola Dølven, Benedicte Ferré :
    Long-term multi-variable time series of seep sites offshore West Spitsbergen
    2019
  • Manuel Moser, Benoît Bergès, Benedicte Ferré :
    Long-term multibeam monitoring of natural methane seepage offshore Prins Karls Foreland, Svalbard
    2019
  • Stephen Matthew Platt, Cathrine Lund Myhre, Benedicte Ferré, Anna Silyakova, Ove Hermansen, Ignacio Pisso et al.:
    Observations of methane in the Arctic
    2019
  • Stephen Matthew Platt, Cathrine Lund Myhre, Benedicte Ferré, Anna Silyakova, Ove Hermansen, Ignacio Pisso et al.:
    Observations of methane in the Arctic
    2019
  • Stephen Matthew Platt, Cathrine Lund Myhre, Benedicte Ferré, Anna Silyakova, Ove Hermansen, Ignacio Pisso et al.:
    Global and Arctic methane
    2019
  • Manuel Moser, Benoît Bergès, Benedicte Ferré :
    Long-term multibeam monitoring of natural methane seepage offshore Prins Karls Forland, Svalbard
    2019
  • Muhammed Fatih Sert, Juliana D’Andrilli, Friederike Gründger, Helge Niemann, Alexey Pavlov, Mats Granskog et al.:
    Cold methane seeps alter dissolved organic matter dynamics in the Arctic Ocean
    2019

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    Research interests

    Bénédicte Ferré is a physical oceanographer whose research activities span from sediment resuspension and transport to oceanographic data associated with methane release. She holds a PhD degree in marine science from the University of Perpignan (France). 
    Bénédicte was a post-doctoral researcher at the United States Geological Survey in Woods Hole, USA, before joining the Department of Geology Geosciences at UiT The Arctic University of Norway as a researcher in 2008. She is involved in several projects related to ocean observatories such as the ongoing LoVe, EMSO ERIC and SIOS. Her research aims at understanding the link between oceanographic settings and methane release and transport. 


    Current projects:

    • Leader of EMAN7 (Environmental impact of Methane seepage and sub-seabed characterization at Love characterization at Love – Node 7)
    • Co-leader of NorEMSO (Norwegian node for the European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory)
    • Work package co-leader in ReGAME (REliable Global Methane Emissions estimates in a changing world)
    Researcher profile in Cristin
    ORCID: 0000-0003-1646-9287

    Member of research group

    Geophysics, Glaciology and Oceanography   Norsk innhold