About Me
I am a doctor in physical oceanography, and I am now working as a postdoc within the SASIP project project in Grenoble, France.
I pursued my Ph.D. studies at the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, supervised by Fabien Roquet. My doctoral research investigated the factors influencing the upper ocean stratification, particularly near the polar transition zones between the alpha and beta oceans. Throughout my academic journey, I have actively contributed to teaching physical oceanography courses at the University of Gothenburg. I believe that science should be open and reproducible, and I am a full advocate of FOSS. Therefore, I have been an exercise leader at one CodeRefinery workshop, and I participate in open-source initiatives, contributing to Python packages like xnemogcm, xgcm, and gsw-xarray. Beyond academia, I have a professional diploma in carpentry, I play the guitar, and I love mountains.
I am one of the co-founder of the French non-profit association “Prêt d’Objets à Meylan”, which runs a library of stuff (in French objethèque): https://pom-asso.fr.
J’ai été co-listier de la liste AIMEylan dans le cadres des élections municipales française de 2026, dans la ville de Meylan.
Publications
2026
- Doriot, V., Roquet, F., Nerini, D., Caneill, R., Picard, B., & Guinet, C. (2026). Distribution and recent trends of the mixed layer depth around the kerguelen plateau. Submitted to JGR: ocean. Preprint submitted; License: Non Exclusive No Reuse License. URL: https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.173687466.60535825, doi:10.22541/essoar.173687466.60535825
- Caneill, R., Rampal, P., Bourgoin, M., Marsan, D., & Weiss, J. (2026). On the multiscale dynamics of the arctic sea-ice pack. Submitted to AGU Advances. Preprint submitted; License: CC-BY 4.0. URL: https://doi.org/10.1029/2026AV002645, doi:10.1029/2026AV002645
2024
- Caneill, R., Roquet, F., & Nycander, J. (2024). The southern ocean deep mixing band emerges from a competition between winter buoyancy loss and upper stratification strength. Ocean Science, 20(2), 601–619. URL: https://os.copernicus.org/articles/20/601/2024/, doi:10.5194/os-20-601-2024
2022
- Roquet, F., Ferreira, D., Caneill, R., Schlesinger, D., & Madec, G. (2022 , November). Unique thermal expansion properties of water key to the formation of sea ice on Earth. Science Advances, 8(46). URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq0793, doi:10.1126/sciadv.abq0793
- Caneill, R., Roquet, F., Madec, G., & Nycander, J. (2022 , August). The Polar Transition from Alpha to Beta Regions Set by a Surface Buoyancy Flux Inversion. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52(8), 1887–1902. URL: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/phoc/52/8/JPO-D-21-0295.1.xml, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-21-0295.1
2019
- Picard, G., Arnaud, L., Caneill, R., Lefebvre, E., & Lamare, M. (2019). Observation of the process of snow accumulation on the Antarctic Plateau by time lapse laser scanning. The Cryosphere, 13(7), 1983–1999. URL: https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/13/1983/2019/, doi:10.5194/tc-13-1983-2019
Miscellaneous
- PhD Thesis.
From alpha to beta ocean: Exploring the role of surface buoyancy fluxes and seawater thermal expansion in setting the upper ocean stratification
Available in my website