JPR Advance Access originally published online on July 9, 2007
Journal of Plankton Research 2007 29(9):823-825; doi:10.1093/plankt/fbm057
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Valerie Andersen (1959–2007)
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, UMR CNRS 7093, Station Zoologique de Villefranche, 06230 Villefranche-Sur-Mer, France
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Valérie Andersen formally began her career in oceanography with a PhD from the Université de Pierre et Marie Curie in 1985. Her thesis (Andersen, 1985a
) was centred on the development of numerical models of the pelagic food web. However, it was firmly based on her experimental studies of salps (Andersen, 1985b
, 1986
, 1989
; Andersen and Nival, 1986
) and data she gathered on cruises in the N.W. Mediterranean Sea (Andersen and