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Serge Heussner is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with particular expertise in pollution, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, ecology, industrial and manufacturing engineering, and atmospheric science.

Their main topics of work encompass:

  • Mercury impact and mitigation studies
  • Microplastics and plastic pollution
  • Recycling and waste management techniques
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Isotope analysis in ecology
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

Heussner's notable recent papers include:

  • "The missing ocean plastic sink: Gone with the rivers" (2021), published in Science
  • "Microplastic fluxes in a large and a small Mediterranean river catchments: The Têt and the Rhône, Northwestern Mediterranean Sea" (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "The MALINA oceanographic expedition: how do changes in ice cover, permafrost and UV radiation impact biodiversity and biogeochemical fluxes in the Arctic Ocean?" (2021), published in Earth System Science Data
  • "Mercury accumulation in the sediment of the Western Mediterranean abyssal plain: A reliable archive of the late Holocene" (2021), published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "Mercury deposition in the Eastern Mediterranean: Modern fluxes in the water column and Holocene accumulation rates in abyssal sediment" (2023), published in Chemical Geology

They frequently collaborate with other researchers, including:

  • Olivier Radakovitch
  • Wolfgang Ludwig
  • Miquel Canals
  • Jean-François Ghiglione
  • Mel Constant

Their work is published in several scientific venues, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of their research. These venues include:

  • Science
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Earth System Science Data
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Chemical Geology

Best Publications

  • Flushing submarine canyons

    Miquel Canals;Pere Puig;Xavier Durrieu de Madron;Serge Heussner

  • River discharges of water and nutrients to the Mediterranean and Black Sea: Major drivers for ecosystem changes during past and future decades?

    Wolfgang Ludwig;Egon Dumont;Michel Meybeck;Serge Heussner

  • The missing ocean plastic sink: Gone with the rivers.

    Lisa Weiss;Wolfgang Ludwig;Serge Heussner;Miquel Canals

  • Suspended sediment fluxes and transport processes in the Gulf of Lions submarine canyons. The role of storms and dense water cascading

    Albert Palanques;Xavier Durrieu de Madron;Pere Puig;Joan Fabres

  • The PPS 3 time-series sediment trap and the trap sample processing techniques used during the ECOMARGE experiment

    Serge Heussner;Claude Ratti;Jacques Carbonne

  • Particle fluxes and ecosystem response on a continental margin: the 1985–1988 Mediterranean ECOMARGE experiment

    Andre Monaco;Pierre Biscaye;Jacques Soyer;Roger Pocklington

  • Particulate matter and organic carbon budgets for the Gulf of Lions (NW Mediterranean)

    Xavier Durrieu De Madron;Abderrazzak Abassi;Serge Heussner;André Monaco

  • Interaction of dense shelf water cascading and open-sea convection in the northwestern Mediterranean during winter 2012

    X. Durrieu de Madron;L. Houpert;P. Puig;A. Sanchez-Vidal

  • Seasonality and composition of particulate fluxes during ECOMARGE—I, western Gulf of Lions

    A. Monaco;T. Courp;S. Heussner;J. Carbonne

  • Spatial and temporal variability of downward particle fluxes on a continental slope: Lessons from an 8-yr experiment in the Gulf of Lions (NW Mediterranean)

    Serge Heussner;Xavier Durrieu de Madron;Antonio Calafat;Miquel Canals

  • Cascades in Mediterranean Submarine Grand Canyons

    Miquel Canals;Roberto Danovaro;Serge Heussner;Vasilios Lykousis

  • Organic matter in sediments of canyons and open slopes of the Portuguese, Catalan, Southern Adriatic and Cretan Sea margins

    Antonio Pusceddu;Silvia Bianchelli;Miquel Canals;Anna Sanchez-Vidal

  • Hydrological and climatic uncertainties associated with modeling the impact of climate change on water resources of small Mediterranean coastal rivers

    Franck Lespinas;Wolfgang Ludwig;Serge Heussner

  • Composition and spatio-temporal variability of particle fluxes in the Western Alboran Gyre, Mediterranean Sea

    J Fabres;A Calafat;A Sanchez-Vidal;M Canals

  • Microplastic fluxes in a large and a small Mediterranean river catchments: The Têt and the Rhône, Northwestern Mediterranean Sea.

    Mel Constant;Mel Constant;Wolfgang Ludwig;Wolfgang Ludwig;Philippe Kerhervé;Philippe Kerhervé;Jennifer Sola;Jennifer Sola

  • Beached microplastics in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea.

    Mel Constant;Mel Constant;Philippe Kerhervé;Philippe Kerhervé;Morgan Mino-Vercellio-Verollet;Morgan Mino-Vercellio-Verollet;Marc Dumontier

  • Coccolithophorids on the continental slope of the Bay of Biscay – production, transport and contribution to mass fluxes

    Luc Beaufort;Serge Heussner

  • Origin and variability of downward biogeochemical fluxes on the Rhone continental margin (NW mediterranean)

    A. Monaco;X. Durrieu de Madron;O. Radakovitch;S. Heussner

  • Impact of recent climate change on the hydrology of coastal Mediterranean rivers in Southern France

    Franck Lespinas;Wolfgang Ludwig;Serge Heussner

  • Seasonal and interannual changes of planktic foraminiferal fluxes in the Gulf of Lions (NW Mediterranean) and their implications for paleoceanographic studies: Two 12-year sediment trap records

    Andrés S. Rigual-Hernández;Francisco J. Sierro;María A. Bárcena;José A. Flores

  • Distribution and quality of sedimentary organic matter on the Aquitanian margin (Bay of Biscay)

    Henri Etcheber;Jean-Claude Relexans;Majida Beliard;Olivier Weber

Frequent Co-Authors

Miquel Canals
Miquel Canals University of Barcelona
Anna Sanchez-Vidal
Anna Sanchez-Vidal University of Barcelona
Albert Palanques
Albert Palanques Spanish National Research Council
Pere Puig
Pere Puig Spanish National Research Council
Antoni Calafat
Antoni Calafat University of Barcelona
X. Durrieu de Madron
X. Durrieu de Madron University of Perpignan
Olivier Radakovitch
Olivier Radakovitch Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire
Jacobo Martín
Jacobo Martín Biomedicine Research Institute of Buenos Aires - CONICET - Partner Institute of the Max Planck Society
Roberto Danovaro
Roberto Danovaro Marche Polytechnic University
Pierre E. Biscaye
Pierre E. Biscaye Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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