Thomas Brady

My master’s project focuses on monitoring and modeling lake and reservoir ice in cold regions. Using custom-built, low-cost temperature profilers deployed on two northern lakes and one hydroelectric reservoir in Quebec, we record continuous temperature profiles throughout the ice season. These data, complemented by manual drilling and sonar measurements, provide a detailed view of ice formation, growth, and melt. By comparing field observations with simulations from the Canadian Small Lake Model (CSLM), this research aims to improve the representation of ice and snow processes in lake model.

Master’s student in water engineering

Affiliations

Department of Civil and Water Engineering,

Université Laval

River Ice Laboratory, Université Laval

CentrEau | Quebec Water Management Research

Center

Lake Ice

Field Monitoring

Lake Model

Supervision: Daniel Nadeau and Tadros Ghobrial

Contact

thomas.brady.1@ulaval.ca

LinkedIn

This video shows the structure of the ice cover on Lake Bernard in March 2025. It highlights, among other things, the air bubbles trapped during ice formation, as well as the layering of two types of ice: clear ice at the bottom (thermal ice) and whiter ice at the surface (snow ice).