Principal Investigator

• Full professor in the Department of Civil and Water Engineering – Université Laval

• Director of the Bachelor’s Program in Water Engineering

• Regular member of the Quebec Water Research Center (CentrEau)

• Regular member of the Centre for Northern Studies (CEN)

• Visiting professor, Dalhousie University

Research professionals

Pierre-Erik Isabelle, ing., Ph. D.

Ph.D. Students

Antoine Thiboult, Ph. D.

Dmitry Pershin

Alexis Bédard-Therrien

Masters Students

Emmanuelle Barrette

Thomas Brady

Jérémie Labelle

Laurence Charbonneau

Étienne Tremblay

Deirdre Spearns

Katrine Trottier

Clarence Gagnon

Benoit Brault, ing., M. Sc.

Snow | Hydrology |
Forest canopy

2024-

Lake Ice | Field Monitoring | Lake Model

2024-

Flood analysis | Extratropical cyclones | Atmospheric rivers

2023-2025

Cold region hydrology | Modelling | Hydrometeorology

2022-

Radiation measurements | Automation | Mechanical design

2024-2025

Permafrost | Energy balance | Shrub expansion

2024-

Albedo | Radiative forcing | Northern reservoirs

2024-

Hydro-geophysics | Seasonal snowpack hydrology | Cold-regions flood risk

2024-

Snow Water Equivalent | Arctic Snow | Water Vapor Flux

2025-

Rain-on-snow | Snowpack energy balance | Snowmelt

2023-

Flood | Database management | Experience feedback

Surface energy balance | Water and carbon fluxes | Boreal environments

Hydrometeorology | Surface energy balance | Eddy-covariance

Benjamin Bouchard, ing. Ph.D.

Snow properties | Modelling | Boreal environment

Postdoctoral fellows

Kyoungho Ryu, Ph. D.

Land-Atmospheric Boundary Layer Interactions | Surface energy balance | Surface water availability

Aashna Verma

Modelling | Cryosphere-hydrology | Climate change

2025-

Daniel Nadeau, ing., Ph. D