Tara Oceans
(TARA OCEANS POLAR CIRCLE)
L'Equipe
DIRECTORS
Etienne Bourgois
52 years old, President of Tara Foundation and company director, for agnès b. for over 20 years.
« Tara Expeditions was born from a great desire of keeping faith. It is a collective quest to understand what is happening climate-wise and to explain it in simple terms. When we acquired Tara in 2003 to create the Tara Expeditions project, the environmental approach, initiated by a company leader was still quite a marginal gesture. Thank goodness, thing have evolved.
Today I do not feel like a radical ecologist. I believe we need to live with our contradictions and attempt to resolve them. It really has to do with a revolution in our mentalities. To act in ecology we shall have to relinquish our individualist world. It is the key. This is what we attemptedand accomplished on Tara. A team’s work at the service of the planet. This exceptional ship must pursue her mission as ambassador of the world’s citizens, must remain a catalyser of energy and desire to tackle without glitter the main question that arises for each one of us: What future are we preparingfor our children? This is and has been my motivation for the past 10 years and for Taras' next expedition : Tara Oceans Polar Circle »
Chris Bowler
48 years old, spokesman and scientific director
He is a research director at the CNRS and has been in charge since 2010, of the environmental and evolutionary genomics section at the biology Institut in the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. (iBENS, CNRS/ENS) Since 2009, he has been one of the scientific coordinator for the Tara Oceans expedition and will be one of the scientific directors of Tara Oceans Polar Circle. Chris Bowler is an expert in plant biology and has been recognized by the CNRS silver medal in 2010. In his lab, this scientific has studied the marine diatoms and unicellular photosynthetic protists, major parts of the plankton, that play a primary role in the marine ecosystem life. Thanks to many samples collected on board Tara during the Tara Oceans expedition, Chris Bowler is making an attempt to identify the distribution and the role of diatoms in the oceans around the planet. He, thus, tries to collect the reactions of an organism, that is at the start of the food chain for many marine species, against climate changes.
STAFF
Romain Troublé
Secretary General
With a double degree in biotechnology and business management, Romain is equally known for his sailing skills and participations in the America's Cup in 2000 and 2003. After a few years organizing polar expeditions logistics, he has been coordinating Tara Expeditions since 2004.
Philippe Clais
Member of the board of Fonds Tara
With over 50 years of experience, Philippe Clais has dominated the marine : by serving as capitan to commercial transporters, as inspector for leisure sailing, manager of a tourist harbor, and consultant for nautical industries. He is a member of the national committee for safe sailing and the higher council of sea sports, committee of capitans and officers of the merchant fleet
Éloïse Fontaine
In charge of the communication
A graduate in journalism at ESJ Paris, Eloise Fontaine's career began as contributor to the site www.ledefi.com for the French during the last America's Cup in Auckland. Afterwards she created an online information magazine : www.lemagazine.info becoming head of the sports section. Her adventure with "Tara Expeditions" began in December 2004.
Xavier Bougeard
In charge of education
With a degree in biology, his career has led him towards the education for environment and sustainable development (EEDD) throughout these past 20 years. He is passionate for nature, science and loves to share his knowledge with the public and youth. He is in charge of education at Tara Expeditions.
Myriam Thomas
In charge of special events
After spending ten years in the Hachette group, first as responsible for products direct marketing then as responsible for the promotion of the weekly magazines Version Femina and TV Hebdo, Myriam joined the Tara land based crew in 2006. She manages the special events of the expedition and is also in charge of the exhibition programme. Myriam loves nothing more than a challenge and Tara Expeditions is one of them.
André Abreu de Almeida
Advocacy advisor
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Andre studied Philosophy and Social Communication, with a specialization in International Relations and Economic Development in Sorbonne, Paris. He has more than 10 years of experience working with international cooperation in the domain of environmental issues. In 2003, he joined the France Libertés Foundation in Paris, where he worked for six years, two of which in the position of Development Director with participations in the UN Human Rights Council. Andre was also a speaker while part-taking in events at UNESCO (2003), UNFCCC (2008, 2009), UNHRC (2007-2009), UNCSD (2011, 2012), and the E.U Parliament (2007). In 2009 he joined the Tara Expeditions team, taking in charge the international policy & coordination.
Anne Ghuysen Watrin
Administration
Anne is part of the Tara Expeditions team since 2006.
Philippe Duflot
School mediator
Michael Pitiot
TV Production
An engineer by training, Michael Pitiot is the author of expedition accounts (published by Glénat, Gallimard and Presses de la Renaissance) and of documentaries for France2, France5 and Arte. He shoots in 1991 his first tv reportage on humanitarian emergency in Zaïre and Rwanda, continues with the production of short foreign subjects before becoming for five years special adviser to the Vietnamese television. He finally leaves Asia at the helm of a Chinese junk and leads the Sao Mai expedition to France. In 2001, the reporter Arnaud de la Grange asks him to lead the journalists and authors' team of
the "Portes d'Afrique" operation. He is presently coordinating the televised production of Tara Arctic 2007-2008.
Et aussi
Brigitte Sabard (Education), Magali Puiseux (Communication & Partnerships), Marc Domingos and Clémentine Moulin (Communication), Dr Thierry Mansir, Dana Sardet and Patrick Chang (Translation)
SCIENTISTS
Christian Sardet
French,
LOV, CNRS/UPMC Villefranche
Biologist
Eric Karsenti
French
Scientific Director, EMBL/CNRS
Colomban de Vargas
Swiss
Scientific Director, UPMC/CNRS
Specialty : Biodiversity of Protists
Gaby Gorsky
French
Director of Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche, UPMC/CNRS
Specialty : Operational Oceanography
Stefanie Kandels-Lewis
German
Logistics, EMBL
Emmanuel Boss
American
Scientific Director, University of Maine
Jean-Claude Gascard
French
Scientific Director, CNRS
Marcel Babin
Quebecois
Scientific Director, U LAVAL/CNRS
CREW
Loic Vallette
French
Captain
Samuel Audrain
French
Second
Daniel Cron
French
Chief engineer
Dominique Limbour
French
Cook
François Aurat
French
Deck Officer
Louis Wilmotte
French
Electrician trainee
Yann Chavance
French
On board reporter
Céline Dimier
French
Biology Engineer
Station Biologique de Roscoff, CNRS/UPMC
Marc Picheral
French
Engineer Oceanographer
Laboratoire océanologique de Villefranche sur mer / CNRS
Julie Poulain
French,
Biology engineer
CEA
Lionel Guidi
French
Engineer Assistant
CNRS
Samuel Chaffron
French
Postdoctoral scientist
Vrije Universiteit Brussel-VIB
Alison Palmer Chase
American
Graduate Student
University of Maine
Lucie Bittner
French
Research Assistant
CNRS
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Newsworthy
05/19/2013
Follow Tara in live
05/19/2013
05/18/2013
Exhibition - Tara Expeditions discovery of a new world : the Ocean
05/18/2013
Free entry on May 18th and 19th for Taras departure.
Exhibiton until Septembre 29th 2013.
05/13/2013
Taras' new flash
05/13/2013
04/25/2013
Explore Google Ocean with Tara
04/25/2013
04/11/2013
PARIS APPEAL FOR THE HIGH SEAS
04/11/2013
02/12/2013
Tara in Nowness by Spencer Lowell
02/12/2013
09/10/2012
Tara Expeditions Blogs
09/10/2012
06/21/2012
Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations speaks to Tara at Rio +20
06/21/2012
"Earlier this year, I had the chance to board the Tara Expeditions when it docked in New York.
The crew was really inspiring. They shared so much information with me about oceans and climate change. I am really grateful that they are raising awareness around the world … and I am very proud that the United Nations is supporting them.
As I stood on the Tara that day in February, I stood on the deck and looked out at downtown Manhattan. We were surrounded by skyscrapers but we had a window on the deep blue sea. It was a reminder that our worlds are connected.
I promised the crew that I would continue working with dedication for the planet’s oceans.
Now, Rio has to put more wind in our sails, so we can navigate the waves to a better future.
Let us advance for our oceans and our world."
Rio de Janeiro, 21 June 2012