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Jean-Claude Caprais is affiliated with the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea in France. Their research spans Environmental Science and Engineering, with focused contributions to subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's main topics of work encompass Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Among their recent scholarly outputs is the paper titled "A GC-SSIM-CRDS system: Coupling a gas chromatograph with a Cavity Ring-Down Spectrometer for onboard Twofold analysis of molecular and isotopic compositions of natural gases during ocean-going research expeditions", published in 2021 in the journal Analytica Chimica Acta.

Frequent coauthors contributing to their research include:

  • Christophe Brandily
  • Nolwenn LeCuff
  • Jean-Pierre Donval
  • Vivien Guyader
  • Alexis de Prunelé

Publication venues where Jean-Claude Caprais has contributed include:

  • Analytica Chimica Acta

The scope of Caprais' research integrates both molecular and isotopic analytical techniques applied during oceanographic expeditions. This blend of Environmental Science and Engineering underpins the investigation of natural gases relevant to marine and atmospheric processes.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • Dual symbiosis in a Bathymodiolus sp mussel from a methane seep on the gabon continental margin (southeast Atlantic): 16S rRNA phylogeny and distribution of the symbionts in gills

    Sébastien Duperron;Sébastien Duperron;Thierry Nadalig;Jean-Claude Caprais;Myriam Sibuet

  • Evidence for intense REE scavenging at cold seeps from the Niger Delta margin

    Germain Bayon;Dominique Birot;Livio Ruffine;Jean-claude Caprais

  • Chemical environment of the hydrothermal mussel communities in the Lucky Strike and Menez Gwen vent fields, Mid Atlantic Ridge

    Pierre-Marie Sarradin;Jean-Claude Caprais;Ricardo Riso;Roger Kerouel

  • Biology and ecology of the “Pompeii worm” (Alvinella pompejana Desbruyères and Laubier), a normal dweller of an extreme deep-sea environment: A synthesis of current knowledge and recent developments

    D. Desbruyères;P. Chevaldonné;P. Chevaldonné;A. M. Alayse;D. Jollivet

  • Seafloor geological studies above active gas chimneys off Egypt (Central nile deep sea fan)

    Stéphanie Dupré;John Woodside;Jean-Paul Foucher;Gert de Lange

  • Archaeal and anaerobic methane oxidizer communities in the Sonora Margin cold seeps, Guaymas Basin (Gulf of California)

    Adrien Vigneron;Perrine Cruaud;Perrine Cruaud;Perrine Cruaud;Patricia Pignet;Jean-Claude Caprais

  • Multi-disciplinary investigation of fluid seepage on an unstable margin: The case of the Central Nile deep sea fan

    G. Bayon;L Loncke;S. Dupre;S. Dupre;J.-C. Caprais

  • Evidence for chemoautotrophic symbiosis in a Mediterranean cold seep clam (Bivalvia: Lucinidae): comparative sequence analysis of bacterial 16S rRNA, APS reductase and RubisCO genes.

    Sébastien Duperron;Sébastien Duperron;Sébastien Duperron;Aline Fiala-Médioni;Jean-Claude Caprais;Karine Olu

  • 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

  • Contrasted sulphide chemistries in the environment of 13°N EPR vent fauna

    Nadine Le Bris;Pierre-Marie Sarradin;Jean-Claude Caprais

  • Ferromanganese nodule fauna in the Tropical North Pacific Ocean: Species richness, faunal cover and spatial distribution

    Julie Veillette;Jozée Sarrazin;Andrew J. Gooday;Joëlle Galéron

  • First insights into the structure and environmental setting of cold-seep communities in the Marmara Sea

    Bénédicte Ritt;Jozée Sarrazin;Jean-Claude Caprais;Philippe Noël

  • Temperature resistance studies on the deep-sea vent shrimp Mirocaris fortunata.

    Bruce Shillito;Nadine Le Bris;Stéphane Hourdez;Juliette Ravaux

  • 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

  • Chemical and thermal description of the environment of the Genesis hydrothermal vent community (13 degrees N, EPR)

    Pierre-marie Sarradin;Jean-claude Caprais;Patrick Briand;Françoise Gaill

  • U-Th isotope constraints on gas hydrate and pockmark dynamics at the Niger delta margin

    Germain Bayon;Gideon M. Henderson;Joël Etoubleau;Jean-Claude Caprais

  • The influence of Congo River discharges in the surface and deep layers of the Gulf of Guinea

    Annick Vangriesheim;Catherine Pierre;Alain Aminot;Nicolas Metzl

Frequent Co-Authors

Karine Olu
Karine Olu French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Alexis Khripounoff
Alexis Khripounoff University of Western Brittany
Pierre-Marie Sarradin
Pierre-Marie Sarradin University of Western Brittany
Myriam Sibuet
Myriam Sibuet French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Germain Bayon
Germain Bayon French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Christophe Rabouille
Christophe Rabouille University of Paris-Saclay
Catherine Pierre
Catherine Pierre Université Paris Cité
Sébastien Duperron
Sébastien Duperron Sorbonne University
Antje Boetius
Antje Boetius Max Planck Society
Daniel Desbruyères
Daniel Desbruyères French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea

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