The newly-appointed Data Officer Lloyd Izard will collaborate with SWOT AdAC members to compile information on data collected during SWOT AdAC cruises and will provide assistance with technical work for data validation.
Welcome to Lloyd Izard, the new SWOT AdAC Data Officer. Lloyd responsibilities will include compiling information on the data collected during SWOT AdAC cruises and the associated ongoing research, assisting with technical work for validating SWOT data with in situ observations, providing data assistance (analysis, exchange), and proposing synergies in research topics.
Lloyd completed its bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Biological Oceanography and Marine Ecology at Aix-Marseille University (Marseille). Subsequently, he earned Ph.D. at Sorbonne University (Paris) in December 2023, in which he focused on the spatial structuring and variability of mesopelagic ecosystems in the Southern Indian Ocean. Throughout his academic journey and early career, he conducted research at the Institut Méditerranéen d’Océanologie (MIO, Marseille) and the Laboratoire d’Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approche Numérique (LOCEAN, Paris).