Florian Ricour
Natural Environment
- fricour@naturalsciences.be
Florian Ricour is a marine data scientist. His research focuses on understanding the ocean's role in carbon sequestration through innovative approaches combining machine learning, autonomous platforms, and biogeochemical modeling.
Function
Currently at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Florian develops decision-support tools for ecosystem services and interfaces between physical-biogeochemical models.
Research team: Ecosystem Modelling (ECOMOD)
Research theme: Science for a sustainable marine management
Area of Expertise
Florian has expertise in biogeochemistry, Big Data, artificial intelligence and data visualization frameworks.
Dissemination activities
Publication highlights
Florian published his second first-author paper titled "Century-scale carbon sequestration flux throughout the ocean by the biological pump," in the journal Nature Geoscience (2023). This publication reveals that carbon sequestration fluxes are up to 6 times higher than previously estimated, challenging the traditional assumption that sequestration only occurs in the deep ocean (below 1000m).