Biography
I am a professor in the Department of Environment and Geography at Bishop's University.
https://www.ubishops.ca/academic-programs/faculty-of-arts-and-science/social-sciences/environment-and-geography/faculty
I am an earth scientist with a broad training and even broader research interests. I hold a PhD in Earth Sciences from Dalhousie and my area of expertise was paleoclimatology and paleoceanography. For my dissertation, I used dinoflagellate cysts to reconstruct sea surface conditions in the North Altantic over the last 10,000 years, and I used pollen to track how vegetation changed in Eastern Canada over that same time period. I still have ongoing projects in paleoceanography, examining the causes and the impacts of the Younger Dryas and other abrupt climatic events of the last deglaciation.
During grad school, I specialized in palynology because it is a very versatile tool with applications in many fields. During a postdoctoral fellowship, I monitored pollen concentrations in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and I then implemented a monitoring program in Sherbrooke, Qc. I now studying the impact of airborne pollen concentrations on people`s health in Sherbrooke Qc and the long distance transport of pollen.
Recently, I created TreeTraque.ca, a citizen science project that will help scientist track the timing of seasonal development phases of trees (phenology). We will need this type of data in the future to measure the impact of climate change on trees.
And I invite you to check out Uberg.ca, where many student-lead research initiatives are taking place! Among other things, we are working on monitoring methods to measure the impacts of invasive aquatic plants on local lake ecosystems.
During grad school, I specialized in palynology because it is a very versatile tool with applications in many fields. During a postdoctoral fellowship, I monitored pollen concentrations in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and I then implemented a monitoring program in Sherbrooke, Qc. I now studying the impact of airborne pollen concentrations on people`s health in Sherbrooke Qc and the long distance transport of pollen.
Recently, I created TreeTraque.ca, a citizen science project that will help scientist track the timing of seasonal development phases of trees (phenology). We will need this type of data in the future to measure the impact of climate change on trees.
And I invite you to check out Uberg.ca, where many student-lead research initiatives are taking place! Among other things, we are working on monitoring methods to measure the impacts of invasive aquatic plants on local lake ecosystems.