Dr Véronique Camille Garçon is a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Senior Scientist at the Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales (LEGOS). She graduated from University of Paris VII in Environmental Sciences (Energy and Pollutions) in 1981 and then became a post-doc fellow at MIT (Cambridge, USA) from 1982 to 1985. Recruited as an Early Career scientist at CNRS in 1985, she worked at Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris then moved down to Toulouse with a sabbatical stay at Princeton University in 1995-1996. Since January 2024, she is back at Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris as CNRS Emeritus Senior Scientist. Her research evolves around understanding and quantifying processes governing fluxes of carbon, oxygen and associated biogeochemical elements in the ocean, using in situ tracers observations, remotely-sensed data, coupled physical biogeochemical modeling and data assimilation technics. She is also deeply involved in oceanic biogeochemical climatic monitoring via electrochemical sensors development. To date, Véronique has authored over 190 peer-reviewed publications in highly cited journals, as well as ten book chapters and numerous communications in so called grey literature.

Throughout her successful scientific career, Véronique served on several national, regional and international committees, actively contributing to development and implementation of activities furthering the coherence of marine biogeochemistry observations and modelling. Her enthusiastic and proactive engagement in coordination was specifically relevant during her 10 years’ service for the Scientific Committee of the Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) project, of which she was the Chair until the end of 2017.

Veronique joined IOCCP SSG in 2018 as an Expert responsible for IOCCP activities around the most impactful biogeochemical EOV: Oxygen. Due to her earlier experience, Veronique is very familiar with the coordination process in marine biogeochemistry as well as the landscape of organizations, funding agencies, funding opportunities for coordination activities as well as interactions between individual projects and programs. All this makes Veronique a uniquely qualified person to embark co-leadership of IOCCP SSG, which she commenced in January 2021. Since taking on a GOOS Biogeochemistry Panel role in 2012, IOCCP has expanded our mission and activities to non-carbon biogeochemical EOVs. Having Veronique as a co-Chair is a positive confirmation of our dedication to EOV-wide coordination challenges for the benefit of the integrated ocean observing system aimed at achieving broader scientific progress and societal development.