Catherine Jeandel is a French geochemical oceanographer known for her research on isotope geochemistry and trace elements in the ocean.
Jeandel grew up in northern Brittany wanting to be an ocean scientist, despite a lack of interest in mathematics.
[2] In 2018, Jeandel was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union who cited her "for fundamental research on the marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and for exploiting them as tracers in chemical and paleoceanography".
[4] Jeandel is known for her research on trace elements found in seawater and on marine particles, include investigations into vanadium,[5] chromium,[6] and neodymium.
[10] A portion of her research examines the role of particles from land that transport trace elements into marine systems[11][12] Jeandel served on the Scientific Steering Committee [13] of the GEOTRACES project, where she focused on the transport of trace elements into the global ocean.