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Overview

Alexis Khripounoff is affiliated with the University of Western Brittany in France. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular attention to subfields including Geochemistry and Petrology, Paleontology, Inorganic Chemistry, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Pollution.

Khripounoff's work addresses several main topics, notably Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Radioactive Element Chemistry and Processing, Mercury Impact and Mitigation Studies, Heavy Metals in the Environment, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Their recent publications include:

  • Mn-micronodules from the sediments of the Clarion-Clipperton zone (Pacific Ocean): Origin, elemental source, and Fe-Cu-Zn-isotope composition, 2021, Chemical Geology
  • Sources, Transport, and accumulation of Mercury in the northwestern Mediterranean margin sediments during the Industrial Era and influence of turbiditic events, 2023, Progress In Oceanography

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Khripounoff include:

  • Vesselin M. Dekov
  • Olivier Rouxel
  • Bleuenn Guéguen
  • Anna V. Wegorzewski
  • Lénàïck Menot

Their scholarly contributions have appeared in journals such as Chemical Geology and Progress In Oceanography.

Best Publications

  • Direct observation of intense turbidity current activity in the Zaire submarine valley at 4000 m water depth

    Alexis Khripounoff;Annick Vangriesheim;Nathalie Babonneau;Philippe Crassous

  • Variations in deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge near the Azores plateau

    D. Desbruyères;M. Biscoito;J.-C. Caprais;A. Colaço

  • Evaluation of a lifetime-based optode to measure oxygen in aquatic systems

    Anders Tengberg;Jostein Hovdenes;Henrik Johan Andersson;Olivier Brocandel

  • A review of the distribution of hydrothermal vent communities along the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge: dispersal vs. environmental controls

    D. Desbruyères;A. Almeida;M. Biscoito;T. Comtet

  • Benthic chamber and profiling landers in oceanography-A review of design, technical solutions and functioning.

    A. Tengberg;F. De Bovee;P. Hall;W. Berelson

  • Cold-seep assemblages on a giant pockmark off West Africa: spatial patterns and environmental control

    K. Olu‐Le Roy;J.‐C. Caprais;A. Fifis;M.‐C. Fabri

  • Rare earth elements and neodymium isotopes in sedimentary organic matter

    Nicolas Freslon;Nicolas Freslon;Germain Bayon;Samuel Toucanne;Sylvain Bermell

  • Total sediment biomass and preliminary estimates of organic carbon residence time in deep-sea benthos

    G. Rowe;M. Sibuet;J. Deming;A. Khripounoff

  • Turbidity events observed in situ along the Congo submarine channel

    Annick Vangriesheim;Alexis Khripounoff;Philippe Crassous

  • High frequency of sediment gravity flow events in the Var submarine canyon (Mediterranean Sea)

    Alexis Khripounoff;Annick Vangriesheim;Philippe Crassous;Joel Etoubleau

  • Analysis of total and organic carbon and total nitrogen in settling oceanic particles and a marine sediment: an interlaboratory comparison

    Penny King;Hilary Kennedy;Philip P Newton;Timothy D Jickells

  • Hydrothermal plume-particle fluxes at 13°N on the East Pacific Rise

    C.R German;S Colley;M.R Palmer;A Khripounoff

  • Peuplements benthiques et caractéristiques trophiques du milieu dans la plaine abyssale de Demerara

    Myriam Sibuet;C Monniot;Daniel Desbruyeres;A Dinet

  • Geochemical and biological recovery of the disturbed seafloor in polymetallic nodule fields of the Clipperton-Clarion Fracture Zone (CCFZ) at 5,000-m depth

    Alexis Khripounoff;Jean-Claude Caprais;Philippe Crassous;Joël Etoubleau

  • Impact of open-ocean convection on particle fluxes and sediment dynamics in the deep margin of the Gulf of Lions

    M. Stabholz;M. Stabholz;X. Durrieu De Madron;M. Canals;Alexis Khripounoff

  • Influence of seep emission on the non-symbiont-bearing fauna and vagrant species at an active giant pockmark in the Gulf of Guinea (Congo-Angola margin)

    Karine Olu;Jean-Claude Caprais;Joelle Galeron;R. Causse

  • Organic matter budget in the Southeast Atlantic continental margin close to the Congo Canyon: In situ measurements of sediment oxygen consumption

    C. Rabouille;Jean-Claude Caprais;B. Lansard;Philippe Crassous

  • La nutrition d'echinodermes abyssaux I. Alimentation des holothuries

    Alexis Khripounoff;Myriam Sibuet

  • Different types of sediment gravity flows detected in the Var submarine canyon (northwestern Mediterranean Sea)

    A. Khripounoff;P. Crassous;N. Lo Bue;B. Dennielou

  • Rapid post-bloom resuspension in the northeastern Atlantic

    Gérard Auffret;Alexis Khripounoff;Annick Vangriesheim

  • Downward particle fluxes within different productivity regimes off the Mauritanian upwelling zone (EUMELI program)

    A. Bory;C. Jeandel;N. Leblond;A. Vangriesheim

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Claude Caprais
Jean-Claude Caprais French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Myriam Sibuet
Myriam Sibuet French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Karine Olu
Karine Olu French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Christophe Rabouille
Christophe Rabouille University of Paris-Saclay
Daniel Desbruyères
Daniel Desbruyères French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Bernard Dennielou
Bernard Dennielou French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Gilbert T. Rowe
Gilbert T. Rowe Texas A&M University
Sabine Schmidt
Sabine Schmidt University of Bordeaux
Christophe Migon
Christophe Migon Université Paris Cité
Pierre-Marie Sarradin
Pierre-Marie Sarradin University of Western Brittany

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