Researchers

Environmental impacts, aquatic ecosystems, perturbation scales, human impacts, aquaculture-environment, resilience, variability, benthos.

Professor

1.3 – Multiple stressors and the integrity of marine ecosystems

2.4 – Knowing marine species and their population and community dynamics

Photosynthesis and photo-oxydation of phytoplankton, ocean biomass production, marine optics, light matter interaction, ocean color remote sensing, fluorescence, Arctic ocean, coastal waters

Professor

1.1 – Melting sea ice and glaciers

2.1 – Cutting-edge tools for observing and modeling marine ecosystems

Study of marine foods and their components for food quality improvement and health promotion

Professor

1.5 – Human Health and the Ocean

Coastal Geomorphology, Natural Hazards, Sediment Transport, Coastal Processes, Estuaries, Coastal Management, Climate Change, Quaternary Geology, Physical Geography, LIDAR.

Professor

1.2 – Natural hazards and coastal erosion

Turbulence in coastal environments, simulations, breaking surface waves and internal waves, shear instability, physical processes under sea ice

Professor

1.4 – Operational oceanography: security and management

2.2 – Understanding ocean circulation: from basin-scale currents to eddies

Teledetection, oceanography, biogeochemistry, climate, Arctic, marine optics, organic matter, phytoplankton, G.I.S..

Professor

1.2 – Natural hazards and coastal erosion

1.3 – Multiple stressors and the integrity of marine ecosystems

2.1 – Cutting-edge tools for observing and modeling marine ecosystems

2.3 – Resolving matter fluxes

Ecophysiology of marine benthic invertebrates, Impacts of acidification, hypoxy and climate changes.

Professeur

1.3 – Multiple stressors and the integrity of marine ecosystems

2.4 – Knowing marine species and their population and community dynamics

Biogeochemistry, diagenesis, sedimentary records, reduction-oxidation, carbon cycle, interfaces, coastal and intertidal systems; St. Lawrence estuary

Professor

1.3 – Multiple stressors and the integrity of marine ecosystems

2.3 – Resolving matter fluxes

Physical océanography: mesoscale, sub-mesoscale, ocean waves, bio-physical interactions, observations, HF radars

Professeur titulaire

1.4 – Operational oceanography: security and management

2.1 – Cutting-edge tools for observing and modeling marine ecosystems

2.2 – Understanding ocean circulation: from basin-scale currents to eddies

Production and dynamics of populations of algae and invertebrates; distribution, causes and consequences of marine biodiversity; structure and function of coastal ecosystems

Professeur

1.3 – Multiple stressors and the integrity of marine ecosystems

2.4 – Knowing marine species and their population and community dynamics

Flood mapping, Coastal dynamics, Video imaging, Shoreline jets, Arctic coastlines, Natural hazards, Coastal flooding

Professor

1.2 – Natural hazards and coastal erosion

1.4 – Operational oceanography: security and management

Transport, absorption and subduction of heat and carbon in the Southern Ocean; Sea ice response to wind changes and increased heat transport; Quantification of CO2 sink in the Southern Ocean; Role of mesoscale eddies in circulation and their impact on the cryosphere and carbon sink of the Southern Ocean.

Assistant Professor

1.1 – Melting sea ice and glaciers

1.3 – Multiple stressors and the integrity of marine ecosystems

2.2 – Understanding ocean circulation: from basin-scale currents to eddies

Oceanic circulation, numerical modeling, surface processes, sea ice, ice-waves interactions, Arctic ocean, subarctic regions

Professor

1.1 – Melting sea ice and glaciers

1.4 – Operational oceanography: security and management

1.5 – Human Health and the Ocean

2.2 – Understanding ocean circulation: from basin-scale currents to eddies

Sea level –ice sheet interactions; Modern and paleo global sea level modeling; Marine ice sheet stability and evolution; Post glacial rebound and mantle viscosity; Issues related to and strategies for dealing with climate change and energy issues

Professeur adjoint

1.1 – Melting sea ice and glaciers

1.2 – Natural hazards and coastal erosion

2.1 – Cutting-edge tools for observing and modeling marine ecosystems

Phytoplankton and ice algae: new production and sedimentation; taxonomical composition; dimethysulfur marine production, effects of UV on use of dissolved nitrogen, Arctic Ocean, St-Lawrence Estuary, North Atlantic.

Professor

1.1 – Melting sea ice and glaciers

1.3 – Multiple stressors and the integrity of marine ecosystems

Theoretical ecology and complex system theory applied to intertidal ecosystems and to marine reserve design: emergence of large scale patterns and dynamics from local interactions among individuals, multidisciplinary approach involving mathematical modeling, field experiments and remote sensing.

Professor

1.3 – Multiple stressors and the integrity of marine ecosystems

2.3 – Resolving matter fluxes

2.4 – Knowing marine species and their population and community dynamics

Ecology of benthic communities: invertebrates-algae interactions, biological invasions, climatic and biophysical models, experimental design.

Professor

1.2 – Natural hazards and coastal erosion

2.3 – Resolving matter fluxes

2.4 – Knowing marine species and their population and community dynamics

Food Security, Human Health and Ocean, Climatic Impact on the Nutritional Status of Ingenous People

Professor

1.5 – Human Health and the Ocean

Geological evolution of continental shelves and lake basins that were iced during Quaternary; Movements of subaquatic mass and paleoseismicity; Subaquatic and geomorphological processes.

Professor

1.2 – Natural hazards and coastal erosion

Marine bacteriology, Impact of climatic changes on structure and function of the cryomicrobial communities, impact of coastal urban effluents, subarctic coastal marshes, bioindicators, N2O

Professor

1.3 – Multiple stressors and the integrity of marine ecosystems

2.4 – Knowing marine species and their population and community dynamics

Complex effects of environmental changes and balance between benefits and risks of local foods on Indigenous health; Environmental biomonitoring of chemical contaminants; Effects of nutrients / contaminants interactions in food; Zoonoses and their environmental and social determinants; Effects of local and regional development on the quality of drinking water and local foods; Impact of climate and ecosystem changes on local food systems; Prevention and promotion of northern ecosystems as lands that sustain health and well-being.

Assistant Professor

1.5 – Human Health and the Ocean

Biogenic carbon and organic cycling through Arctic planktonic microorganisms (phytoplankton and other protists, archaea and bacteria): abundance, biomass, genetic and metabolic diversity, growth and mortality

Professor

1.1 – Melting sea ice and glaciers

2.3 – Resolving matter fluxes

2.4 – Knowing marine species and their population and community dynamics

Presence, fate and adverse effects of emerging contaminants such as microplastics and plastic additives in the environment

Professor

1.3 – Multiple stressors and the integrity of marine ecosystems

Understanding microbial mechanisms that drive biogeochemical cycles in coastal and marine environments; Relationship between microbes, natural organic matters and anthropogenic pollutants; reactivity of dissolved organic carbon

Professor

1.3 – Multiple stressors and the integrity of marine ecosystems

2.3 – Resolving matter fluxes

Numerical modeling of marine ecosystems, evolutive modeling, bio-physical interactions, ecophysiology of plankton, copepods, krill.

Professeur adjoint

1.1 – Melting sea ice and glaciers

1.5 – Human Health and the Ocean

2.1 – Cutting-edge tools for observing and modeling marine ecosystems

2.4 – Knowing marine species and their population and community dynamics

Reconstitution paléoclimatiques et paléoenvironnementales à partir de l’étude minéralogique et/ou géochimique des sédiments – Compréhension et calibration des traceurs géochimiques. Traçages de la circulation des masses d’eau océanique par l’étude des isotopes du Nd des coraux profonds – Acquisition et préservation du signal isotopique. Reconstitutions des interactions d’atmosphère-océan-continent pendant le dernier cycle glaciaire. Restitution à haute résolution des phases de fonte de la calotte de glace Laurentide pendant la dernière déglaciation. Analyse moléculaire de la matière organique sédimentaire (biomarqueurs). Analyses statistiques des données géochimiques ("compositional data").

Professor

1.1 – Melting sea ice and glaciers

1.3 – Multiple stressors and the integrity of marine ecosystems

2.3 – Resolving matter fluxes

Numerical Ocean Modeling; Southern Overturning Circulation; Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Impact of Mesoscale Turbulence on Large Scale Circulation; Topography Effect on Oceanic Turbulences and Circulation.

Professeur

2.2 – Understanding ocean circulation: from basin-scale currents to eddies

2.3 – Resolving matter fluxes

Sedimentology, dynamics of sediments, salt-marshes, cohesive sediments, hydrodynamic measurements, sampling and modeling of coastal waves, coastal erosion, sedimentary petrography, diagenesis.

Professor

1.2 – Natural hazards and coastal erosion

1.4 – Operational oceanography: security and management

2.2 – Understanding ocean circulation: from basin-scale currents to eddies

2.3 – Resolving matter fluxes

Benthic ecology, Ecophysiology of marine invertebrates and macrophytes, Ecogeochemistry, Effects of climate and global change, Coastal ecosystems, Ecological refuges, Ecosystem resilience

Professeur

1.3 – Multiple stressors and the integrity of marine ecosystems

1.5 – Human Health and the Ocean

2.3 – Resolving matter fluxes

2.4 – Knowing marine species and their population and community dynamics

Aquatic ecosystems; Community ecology; Ecological concepts of biodiversity; Role of biodiversity in the functioning of coastal aquatic ecosystems; Energy flow and the cycles of living substances; Distribution patterns in species.

Professeur

1.3 – Multiple stressors and the integrity of marine ecosystems

2.3 – Resolving matter fluxes

Sedimentary biogeochemistry in the St. Lawrence water column; Relationship between permafrost, organic mineralization, and erosion in the Beaufort Sea; Carbon isotope measurements in dissolved inorganic carbon and methane; Sulfur isotope measurements

Professor

1.3 – Multiple stressors and the integrity of marine ecosystems

2.3 – Resolving matter fluxes

Hydrodynamics, sediment transport, experimental modelling (large wave, current and tidal channel of the Environmental Hydraulics Laboratory, small hydraulic channel of the CT Scan Lab), numerical modelling (CFD software - Computational Fluid Dynamic)

Professor

1.2 – Natural hazards and coastal erosion

1.3 – Multiple stressors and the integrity of marine ecosystems

2.1 – Cutting-edge tools for observing and modeling marine ecosystems

2.3 – Resolving matter fluxes

Physiological ecology of nutrient acquisition in marine phytoplankton and bacteria: nutrients forcing and biogenic carbon fluxes, trace element essentiality, toxicity and biogeochemical cycling, resource limitation of plankton growth in natural waters.

Professor

2.3 – Resolving matter fluxes

2.4 – Knowing marine species and their population and community dynamics

Present and paleo distribution of dinoflagellates cysts, aquatic invasive species, ballast water; Marine palynology of Quaternary (pollen, spores, dinoflagellate cysts, acritarchs) and paleo-ecology in high latitudes: marine paleo-environments, paleo-environmental reconstruction of surface marine conditions.

Professor

1.3 – Multiple stressors and the integrity of marine ecosystems

2.4 – Knowing marine species and their population and community dynamics

Analytical Chemistry, pollution of aquatic environments, food webs, mass spectrometry, characterization of lipids, isotopic markers, halogenated organic molecules of natural origin.

Professeur

1.3 – Multiple stressors and the integrity of marine ecosystems

1.5 – Human Health and the Ocean

2.1 – Cutting-edge tools for observing and modeling marine ecosystems

2.3 – Resolving matter fluxes

Dynamics of Aquatic Ecosystems; Sedimentary Archives and Paleoecology; Anthropocen and Geoecology (Human Disturbance on Ecosystems); Bioindicators and Environmental Biomonitoring; Coastal Ecology

Professeur adjoint

1.3 – Multiple stressors and the integrity of marine ecosystems

Quaternary marine geology: paleomagnetism, sedimentology and stratigraphy, paleoclimatology, magnetic and physical properties of sediments, natural hazards, Holocene, Eastern Canada, Arctic, cosmogenic isotopes, millennial-to decadal-scale climatic changes.

Professor

1.1 – Melting sea ice and glaciers

1.2 – Natural hazards and coastal erosion

2.1 – Cutting-edge tools for observing and modeling marine ecosystems

Coastal Systems; Hazard Assessment; Wave-Structure Interaction; Coastal Structures; Resilient Design; Storm Surge; Tsunami; Extreme Floods; Wave Loading; Nature-Based Engineering; Natural Systems

Professeur adjoint

1.2 – Natural hazards and coastal erosion

Photosynthetical and nutritional ecophysiology of phytoplankton: functional roles in fluxes of organic matter, the trophic web and CO2 exchanges; biogeochemical cycles of carbon and essential nutriments; stable isotops; polar and temperate seas.

Professor

1.1 – Melting sea ice and glaciers

1.3 – Multiple stressors and the integrity of marine ecosystems

1.5 – Human Health and the Ocean

2.3 – Resolving matter fluxes

Sea ice modeling, climate, ocean modeling, air-sea interactions, paleoclimate, blowing snow, solid precipitation, field work (snow, ice, surface heat budget)

Professor

1.1 – Melting sea ice and glaciers

1.4 – Operational oceanography: security and management

2.2 – Understanding ocean circulation: from basin-scale currents to eddies

Microbial Ecology and Evolution, Genomics, Microbial Biogeochemistry

Professeur adjoint

1.1 – Melting sea ice and glaciers

2.3 – Resolving matter fluxes

2.4 – Knowing marine species and their population and community dynamics

Estuarine zooplankton, copepod and mysids, trophic interactions, cryptic species, food-web dynamics, genetic heterogeneity, estuarine transition zone, DNA extraction, PCR, community structure, feeding-growth-experiment.

Professor

1.3 – Multiple stressors and the integrity of marine ecosystems

2.4 – Knowing marine species and their population and community dynamics

Aquatic photochemistry and biogeochemistry: physico-chemical properties of dissolved organic matter, carbon monoxide, biogenic carbon cycle, air-sea exchange of trace gases.

Professor

2.3 – Resolving matter fluxes