The LMD is delighted to congratulate Laurent Bopp on a very successful year, with his election to the Académie des Sciences (https://www.academie-sciences.fr/en/meeting-laurent-bopp) and the awarding of the CNRS Silver Medal (https://www.insu.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/laurent-bopp-une-medaille-dargent-pour-letude-des-cycles-biogeochimiques-oceaniques#:~:text=Laurent%20Bopp%2C%20r%C3%A9cemment%20%C3%A9lu%20%C3%A0,environnementaux%20li%C3%A9s%20%C3%A0%20l'oc%C3%A9an.). These two exceptional honors illustrate Laurent's impressive impact in oceanography and climatology, particularly in understanding the carbon cycle in the ocean, the evolution of the ocean carbon sink, ocean acidification, and the impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems.