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)
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)