Marie La Rivière
Expertise in marine ecology (benthic habitats, pressures and impacts)
40 years old
Driving License
Paris France
Employed
Open to opportunities
Project manager "Marine habitats: Sensitivity and Impacts"
French Agency for Biodiversity / UMS PatriNat
Since July 2014
Full-time
Paris
France
- Manage the assessment of benthic habitats' sensitivity project
- Contribute to the elaboration of risk assessment methodologies
- Support the implementation of conservation public policies in marine environment (HD, MSFD, MSP, WFD)
- Support and promote the French position in the OSPAR convention (Regional Sea Convention) as the national delegate for the group working on the Protection of Species and Habitats (ICG-POSH)
- Contribute to any project related to benthic habitats, sensitivity, pressures or impacts
Assistant project scientist
Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography
September 2009
to February 2013
www.magic3-project.com
France
- Scientific data collection, analysis and outreach for the MAGIC3 research project (Microorganisms Associated with Gorgonians In a Climate Change Context)
- Creation of the project funded by the Total Foundation
- Creation of deliverables: scientific publications and annual reports writing, oral presentations at international symposiums and laboratory meetings
- Dissemination of project advances: website design, press article writing, conferences for a general audience, popularized reports writing
- Project management: partners network coordination, project and budget writing funded by the Total Foundation (235,000 euros)
- Experimental protocols conception and improvement - Field sampling, aquarium experiments, molecular biology (T-RFLP, bacterial cultures, CARD-FISH, qPCR, sequencing), statistical analysis
- Scientific counsel for participative science projects
- PhD dissertation: «The bacterial communities of a Mediterranean holobiont, the red gorgonian Paramuricea clavata : diversity, stability and specificity»
Board member, Head of scientific communication
Association Septentrion Environnement
2007
to 2012
Volunteer Work
Marseille
France
- Developing communication strategies, setting up scientific knowledge projects
- Supervising the creation and production of communication media: pamphlet, website, social networks
- Coordination of scientific diffusion projects: exhibitions, educational boards, lectures
- Set up of collaborative projects of participative science and user awareness
Development engineer
CNRS -Nice Sophia Antipolis University
September 2008
to May 2009
Temporary Work
Marseille
France
- Supporting the coordination and diffusion of advances in the MedChange project (French National Research Agency)
- Coordination of the collaborative networks of MPA managers, scientific and institutional partners
- Organization of meetings, synthesis of results, report writing
Magna cum laude
MSc in Oceanography - Specialty Marine Ecology and Biology
Aix-Marseille University - Oceanographic Center of Marseille
September 2006
to June 2008
Magna cum laude
Optional internship (1 month): Improvement of a survey protocol for the red coral populations (C. rubrum) in North-western Mediterranean (Supervisor: Dr J. Garrabou)
Master internship (6 months): Comparison of the diversity of the bacterial communities associated with the red gorgonian Paramuricea clavata in summer and winter.
(Supervisor: Dr M. Bally)
Optional internship (1 month): Improvement of a survey protocol for the red coral populations (C. rubrum) in North-western Mediterranean (Supervisor: Dr J. Garrabou)
Master internship (6 months): Comparison of the diversity of the bacterial communities associated with the red gorgonian Paramuricea clavata in summer and winter.
(Supervisor: Dr M. Bally)
Summer School "Ecology of Infectious Marine Diseases"
University of Washington - Friday Harbor Laboratories
July 2010
to August 2010
Teachers:
Dr Drew Harvell, Dr Carolyn Friedman, Dr Steven Roberts
Dr Drew Harvell, Dr Carolyn Friedman, Dr Steven Roberts
PhD in Oceanography, Marine Biology and Ecology
Aix-Marseille University
October 2009
to October 2013
"The bacterial communities of a Mediterranean holobiont, the red gorgonian Paramuricea clavata: diversity, stability and specificity."
Summa cum laude
Dissertation PDF in the portfolio
Summa cum laude
Dissertation PDF in the portfolio
- French: mother tongue
- English: fluent (TOEIC score : Speaking 200/200 - Writing 190/200)
- German: basic
- Office applications: Office suite, iWork suite
- DTP: Adobe Creative suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop)
- Website management: Spip, Joomla!
- Scientific: R, XL-Stat, EndNote
- Mac OS, Windows
- Molecular biology / Microbiology: T-RFLP, bacterial cultures, (CARD-)FISH, (Q-)PCR, Cloning,
- Experimental protocols improvement (field sampling, sample analysis, data analysis)
- Scuba diving: Professional diver (french Classe II mention B) and CMAS 3*
- Driving license
- Boating license
- Member of the organizing committee of the Underwater photography challenge of Marseille (Underwater documentary shooting and editing - Member of the stage crew) - since 2009
- Secretary of the Student Union of the Oceanographic Center of Marseille (COM&Sea) - 2008
- Scuba diving (CMAS 3*)
- Dancing (20 years of experience)
- Martinique, New-Caledonia
- Europe (UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Greece, Rhodes)
- USA, Egypt, Turkey, Canaries Islands, Dominican Republic
- Photography (land and subaquatic)
- Cooking (creation of recipes)
- Other
