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Overview

Luc Beaufort is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France and conducts research primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering. Their work spans several important subfields, including Ocean Engineering, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, and Mechanical Engineering.

Beaufort's research covers a range of topics, notably in Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Drilling and Well Engineering, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, and Marine Biology and Ecology Research.

The scientist's recent publications include the following papers:

  • Automated recognition by multiple convolutional neural networks of modern, fossil, intact and damaged pollen grains, 2020, Computers & Geosciences
  • Cyclic evolution of phytoplankton forced by changes in tropical seasonality, 2021, Nature
  • Rapid diversification underlying the global dominance of a cosmopolitan phytoplankton, 2023, The ISME Journal
  • Toward a global calibration for quantifying past oxygenation in oxygen minimum zones using benthic Foraminifera, 2021, Biogeosciences
  • Technical note: A new automated radiolarian image acquisition, stacking, processing, segmentation and identification workflow, 2020, Climate of the past

Frequent co-authors in Beaufort's publications include:

  • Ivan A Basov
  • David K. Rea
  • Thomas R. Janecek
  • Eve Arnold
  • John A. Barron

Beaufort publishes regularly in several venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Nannoplankton Research
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Biogeosciences
  • Climate of the past

Best Publications

  • Evolution and variability of the Asian monsoon system: state of the art and outstanding issues.

    Pinxian Wang;Steven Clemens;Luc Beaufort;Pascale Braconnot

  • Sensitivity of coccolithophores to carbonate chemistry and ocean acidification

    L. Beaufort;I. Probert;T. de Garidel-Thoron;E. M. Bendif

  • Insolation Cycles as a Major Control of Equatorial Indian Ocean Primary Production

    Luc Beaufort;Yves Lancelot;Yves Lancelot;Pierre Camberlin;Pierre Camberlin;Olivia Cayre;Olivia Cayre

  • ENSO-like forcing on oceanic primary production during the Late Pleistocene.

    Luc Beaufort;Thibault de Garidel-Thoron;Alan C. Mix;Nicklas G. Pisias

  • Stable sea surface temperatures in the western Pacific warm pool over the past 1.75 million years

    Thibault de Garidel-Thoron-de Garidel-Thoron;Y. Rosenthal;F. Bassinot;Luc Beaufort

  • Testing the direct effect of CO2 concentration on a bloom of the coccolithophorid Emiliania huxleyi in mesocosm experiments

    Anja Engel;Anja Engel;Ingrid Zondervan;Katrien Aerts;Luc Beaufort

  • Moisture transport across Central America as a positive feedback on abrupt climatic changes

    Guillaume Leduc;Laurence Vidal;Kazuyo Tachikawa;Frauke Rostek

  • Why marine phytoplankton calcify

    Fanny M Monteiro;Lennart T. Bach;Colin Brownlee;Paul Bown

  • Sea surface temperature and productivity records for the past 240 kyr in the Arabian Sea

    Frauke Rostek;Edouard Bard;Luc Beaufort;Corinne Sonzogni

  • Sea-level and environmental changes since the last interglacial in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia: an overview

    Allan R Chivas;Adriana Garcı́a;Sander van der Kaars;Martine J.J Couapel

  • Bundled turbidite deposition in the central Pandora Trough (Gulf of Papua) since Last Glacial Maximum: Linking sediment nature and accumulation to sea level fluctuations at millennial timescale

    Stéphan J. Jorry;André W. Droxler;Gianni Mallarino;Gerald R. Dickens

  • Coarse fraction fluctuations in pelagic carbonate sediments from the tropical Indian Ocean: A 1500‐kyr record of carbonate dissolution

    Franck C. Bassinot;Luc Beaufort;Edith Vincent;Laurent D. Labeyrie

  • Poleward expansion of the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi

    Amos Winter;Jorijntje Henderiks;Luc Beaufort;Rosalind E. M. Rickaby

  • The glacial ocean productivity hypothesis: the importance of regional temporal and spatial studies

    Pierre Bertrand;G. Shimmield;P. Martinez;F. Grousset

  • Orbital and suborbital climate variability in the Sulu Sea, western tropical Pacific

    Dw W. Oppo;Bk K. Linsley;Y. Rosenthal;S. Dannenmann

  • The formation of Pliocene sapropels and carbonate cycles in the Mediterranean: Diagenesis, dilution, and productivity

    B. J. H. Van Os;L. J. Lourens;F. J. Hilgen;G. J. De Lange

  • Coccolith chemistry reveals secular variations in the global ocean carbon cycle

    R. E. M. Rickaby;E. Bard;C. Sonzogni;F. Rostek

  • Automatic recognition of coccoliths by dynamical neural networks

    L Beaufort;D Dollfus

  • Biomass burning and oceanic primary production estimates in the Sulu Sea area over the last 380 kyr and the East Asian monsoon dynamics

    L Beaufort;T de Garidel-Thoron;B Linsley;D Oppo

  • Weight estimates of coccoliths using the optical properties (birefringence) of calcite

    Luc Beaufort

  • Millennial‐scale dynamics of the east Asian winter monsoon during the last 200,000 years

    Thibault de Garidel-Thoron;Luc Beaufort;Braddock K. Linsley;Stefanie Dannenmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Ann Holbourn
Ann Holbourn Kiel University
Edouard Bard
Edouard Bard Aix-Marseille University
Wolfgang Kuhnt
Wolfgang Kuhnt Kiel University
Nils Andersen
Nils Andersen Kiel University
Yair Rosenthal
Yair Rosenthal Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Kazuyo Tachikawa
Kazuyo Tachikawa Aix-Marseille University
André W. Droxler
André W. Droxler Rice University
Frank Bassinot
Frank Bassinot University of Paris-Saclay
Braddock K. Linsley
Braddock K. Linsley Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Bradley N. Opdyke
Bradley N. Opdyke Australian National University

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