Annick St-Pierre
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Research Associate
tel: 514-987-3000, ext. 1463
fax: 514-987-4647
Université du Québec à Montréal
Pavillon des sciences biologiques, SB-2385
2080 St-Urbain
Montréal, Québec
H2X 3X8
Canada
Postal Address:
Université du Québec à Montréal
Pavillon des sciences biologiques, SB-2385
C.P. 8888. Succ. Centre-Ville
Montréal, Québec
H3C 3P8
Canada
M.Sc. in biology
Department of Biological Sciences, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM)
Thesis: Oceanic Phytoplankton Dynamic of the Galápagos Archipelago and Validation of Satellite Information.
Directors: Dolors Planas (UQAM - Canada) & Fernando Arcos (ESPOL - Ecuador)
B.Sc. in biology (specialisation in ecology)
Department of Biological Sciences, UQÀM
During my studies, I worked mainly on freshwater primary production in northern Quebec and marine primary production in the Pacific Ocean. Afterward, I worked principally on carbon cycling and greenhouse gas emissions from boreal lakes, streams and hydroelectric reservoirs in Quebec.
I am currently working as a Research Associate for the CarBBAS Chair. I am primarily responsible for planning and coordinating fieldwork and for database compilation and maintenance.
The main objectives of the Chair are to study large-scale patterns of carbon biogeochemistry, dynamics of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon storage in boreal aquatic ecosystems. We also want to assess how these patterns vary among different regions of Quebec in order to produce a global carbon budget.
To do this, during the first mandate of the Chair (2009 to 2014), we developed a large-scale sampling plan. During those five years, we sampled over 450 rivers, 300 lakes and 100 wetlands in nine distinct regions of Quebec. To accomplish all this work, 35 different students and employees were directly involved in the sampling effort. A great team effort!
For the second mandate of the Chair, we will center our sampling more around hydropower complexes. During the summer of 2015, we conducted two field campaigns in the Côte-Nord area, where we sampled over 200 sites along the entire La Romaine River, from its headwater lakes to the St-Laurence estuary 400 km below. In addition, we sampled 25 extra sites in the hydroelectric reservoir La Romaine 2 that was flooded in fall 2014. Another reservoir (La Romaine 1) was flooded along the La Romaine River in fall 2015. We are thus planning to go back in this area during summer 2016 to follow the evolution of this hydroelectric development.
Yvon-Durocher, G, A. P. Allen, D. Bastviken, R. Conrad, C. Gudasz, A. St-Pierre, N. Thanh-Duc, and P. A. del Giorgio. 2014. Methane fluxes show consistent temperature dependence across microbial to ecosystem scales. Nature, doi: 10.1038/nature13164.
Teodoru, C. R., P. A. del Giorgio, Y. T. Prairie and A. St-Pierre. 2013. Depositional fluxes and sources of particulate carbon and nitrogen in natural lakes and a young boreal reservoir in Northern Québec. Biogeochemistry 113(1-3):323-339, doi: 10.1007/s10533-012-9760-x.
Planas, D., Paquet, S. & St-Pierre, A. 2005. Production-consumption of CO2 in reservoirs and lakes in relation to plankton metabolism. In: Tremblay, A. Varfalvy, L., Roehm, C. & Garneau, M., (Eds.), Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Fluxes and Processes : Hydroelectric Reservoirs and Natural Environments. Environmental Science Series, Springer, New York, pp 483-508.
Paquet, S., Planas, D. & St-Pierre A. 2005. Carbon budget in northern Boreal regions before and after hydropower reservoir flooding. Verhanlunger International Vereinigung Limnologie, 29, 587-589.
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On a completely different subject:
St-Pierre, A. 2009. Beurre de yak et yeux bridés: le périple d'une jeune femme en Asie. Les calepins des aventuriers, Bertrand Dumont éditeur, 215 pp.