Clément grew up on the shores of the Mediterranean sea and experienced its changing climate which, rather than causing concern among the local politicians, led them to rejoice at the extension of the summer season and the ever-increasing development of tourism. His schooling and then his studies were at the crossroads of the chemical and natural sciences and the humanities and social sciences. Clément turned his attention to the Ocean, and in particular the Southern Ocean, a subject that he has been studied for some years now, both through the prism of biogeochemistry and through that of the social sciences (governance and environmental social cognition). The Southern Ocean plays a central role in defining not only the physico-chemical, but also the climatic, philosophical and even diplomatic aspects of the rest of the Ocean water mass and the relationships that we, as human societies, have with it and the living organisms that develop there. In what was perhaps initially an unconscious process of participant observation, Clément has had the opportunity to wear a number of different hats in this game of southern players (academia, NGOs, government) and to become involved in various research projects and in sharing the southern scientific approach with society. He is currently working on his thesis in two laboratories, at the Insitut Jean Nicod in Paris and at IMAS in Hobart (and spends his time outside the lab mostly dancing, cooking and hiking).