A professor of chemical oceanography at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, he works at the marine research station in Banyuls-sur-Mer, where he founded and directed the Laboratory for Microbial Oceanography (2010-2013), a research unit that works in partnership with UPMC and CNRS.

With his passionate interest in the Southern Ocean, Stéphane Blain specialises in the mechanisms of the ocean's biological pump for CO₂ and in particular in the biogeochemistry of iron. He has participated in many missions to the Southern Ocean over the past 20 years. Notably, in 2005 he initiated the KEOPS (KErguelen Ocean and Plateau compared Study) oceanographic mission aboard the Marion Dufresne, the objective of which was to study the influence of the oceans on climate in the Kerguelen Islands region (the impact of iron fertilisation on the carbon cycle).

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