Professor Anny Cazenave is a pioneer in the field of satellite altimetry which is used to measure global sea level rise. Her work has had an enormous impact on discussions of climate change.
.Professor Cazenave is a French space geodesist and one of the pioneers in satellite altimetry. She received her PhD in geophysics in 1975 from the University of Toulouse, and works for the French space agency CNES. Since 1996, she has been Deputy Director of the Laboratoire d'Etudes en Geophysique et Oceanographie Spatiale (LEGOS) at Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées in Toulouse, and is presently also the Director of Earth Sciences at the International Space Sciences institute (ISSI), in Bern (Switzerland). Professor Cazenave has received numerous awards and honours, including the Doisteau-Blutet Prize from the French Academy of Sciences (1990), the Vening Meinesz Medal of the European Geophysical Society (1999), the Manley Bendall Prize of the Oceanographic Institute (2008), and the Bowie Medal of the American Geophysical Union (2012).