
Graduate students

Félix Cloutier-Artiwat
NSERC Canada Graduate Scholar
Sulfur cycling along redox gradients in ice-covered arctic lakes
2024-now: M.Sc. Chimie, U. Laval.
2021-2023: B.Sc. Chimie et bioressources, UQAR.

Laurie Martin
Analysis and Mobilisation of Radium in Tailing Management Lake from Elliot Lake
Supervisor: D. Larivière
2023-now: M.Sc. Chimie, U. Laval.
2021-2023: B.Sc. Chimie, U. Laval.
2017-2021 : DEC, Laboratory Technology (Analytical Chemistry) Program, CEGEP de Valleyfield

Kimia Motevalli
Modelling oxythermal conditions and light environments in Arctic lakes.
Co-supervisor: I. Laurion
2021-now: Ph.D. Chimie, U. Laval.
2015-2018: M.Sc. Water resource engineering, Tehran Polytechnic, Iran.
2011-2015: B.Eng. Civil engineering, UST, Iran.
Thomas Bossé-Demers
Dynamics and geochemical signatures of sediment-bound rare earth elements in the Mackenzie delta region.
2020-now: Ph.D. Chimie, U. Laval.
2017-2019: M.Sc. Chimie, U. Laval.
2014-2017: B.Sc. Chimie, U. Laval.

Florence Mercier
NSERC Canada Graduate Scholar
Dynamics of redox-sensitive micronutriments in ice-covered meromictic lakes.
Co-supervisor : C. Girard
2023-now: M.Sc. Chimie, U. Laval.
2020-2023: B.Sc. Chimie, U. Laval.

Louis-Marc Bruneau Dumoulin
FRQNT Graduate Scholar
Retracing the trophic history of Lake Maskinongé (Mont-Tremblant, Canada) at the centennial scale using the paleolimnological approach
Supervisor: É. Saulnier-Talbot
2023-now: M.Sc. Geography, U. Laval.
2019-2023: B.Sc. Environment, U. Laval.
2008-2011 : DEC. Circus arts, National Circus School of Montreal.
Gabriel St-Pierre
Sediment porewater as indicators of the response of the Great Whale River to a major landslide.
Co-supervisor : P. Archambault
2022-now: M.Sc, Chimie, U. Laval
2019-2022: B. Sc. Biologie, U. Laval
Chloé Rivest
Mobility of rare earths in northern soils.
Co-supervisors: D. Larivière , K. Mueller
2022-now: M.Sc. Chimie, U. Laval.
2019-2022: B.Sc. Chimie, U. Laval.

Audrey Laberge-Carignan
Sentinelle North Graduate Scholar
Selenium and vanadium mobility along redox gradients in arctic aquatic environments.
Co-supervisors: D. Larivière,
J. Molson
2020-now: Ph.D. Chimie, U. Laval.
2017-2019: M.Sc. Chimie, U. Laval.
2014-2017: B.Sc. Chimie, U. Laval.
Research profesionnal

Claude Bélanger, Ph.D.
Scientific computing
2021-now
Undergraduate research assistants
Past members
Daniel Fillion
NSERC Canada Graduate Scholar
Co-supervisor: F. Dominé
Now: PhD candidate at UQAR.
2021-2023: M.Sc. Chimie, U. Laval.
2018-2021: B.Sc. Chimie, U. Laval.

Émilie Leclerc
Arsenic mobility in sub-artic lake sediments impacted by mining activities.
Now: Scientist, Ministère de l'environnement, de la lutte aux changements climatiques, de la faune et des parcs (MELCCFP).
2018-2020: M.Sc. Chimie, U. Laval.
2016-2018: B. Sc. Chimie, U. Laval.
Léo Chassiot, Ph.D.
Sentinelle Nord Postgraduate Fellow
Limnogeology of Lake Strathcona., Ellesmere.
Supervisor: P. Lajeunesse
Now: Impact assessment specialist at Impact Assessment Agency of Canada.
2019-2020: Postdoc, Geography, U. Laval.
2017-2019: Postdoc, INRS-ETE.
2012-2016: Ph.D. Université Clermont-Auvergne.
Catherine Gagnon
NSERC Canada Graduate Scholar
Role of colloidal organic carbon on trace elements transport in sub-arctic surface waters.
Co-supervisor : J. Gigault
Now: Scientist, Ministère de l'environnement, de la lutte aux changements climatiques, de la faune et des parcs (MELCCFP).
2022-2024: M.Sc. Chimie, U. Laval.
2019-2022: B.Sc. Chimie, U. Laval.
2015-2017: M. Arch, Architecture, U.Laval
2012-2015: B.Sc. Architecture, U. Laval.

Allyson Dalpé
Distribution des métabolites inorganiques du cycle du soufre dans les lacs
Now: Environmental scientist at Englobe.
2021-2023: M.Sc. Chimie, U. Laval.
2018-2020: B.Sc. Chimie de l’environnement, UQAR.

Marianne Côté
Modeling fish oxythermal and optical habitats in boreal lakes.
Now: Biologist at GCM Consultants.
2019-2022: M.Sc. Chimie, U. Laval.
2017-2019: B.Sc. Bio-informatique, U. Laval.
2014-2017: B.Sc. Biologie, UQAR.

Wessam Neweshy
Fate of phosphorus in lakes undergoing lanthanum-based remediation.
Now: STEM teacher at Noon Academy High School.
2019-2023: Ph.D. Chimie, U. Laval (on leave)
2015-2018: M.Sc. Marine geosciences.
U. Bremen/Max Plank Institute, Germany.
2009-2013: B.Sc. Geology, University of Cairo, Egypt.
Past members - Undergraduate research assistants

Maxime Del Mistro
Chemistry, 2024
NSERC USRA
Université Laval

Santiago Mareque
Chemistry, 2023
NSERC USRA
Université Laval

Florence Mercier
Chemistry, 2022
NSERC USRA
Université Laval

Julien Bellavance
Information technology, 2019
Université Laval

Éloise Giroux
Chemistry, 2024
Université Laval

Aurore Pouit
Civil and Environnemetnal Engineering, 2023
ENTPE, Lyon, France

Marie Demers
Chemistry, 2020 & 2021
Univeristé Laval

Sarah-Michèle Cormier
Chemistry, 2019
Université Laval

Félix Cloutier-Artiwat
Chemistry, 2023
NSERC USRA
UQAR

Audrey Gaudy
Chemistry, 2021
NSERC USRA
Université Laval

Marie Rheault-Leclair
Chemistry, 2019
Université Laval

Bya Ezzahr
DUT Chemistry, 2018
Université Paris-Est
Visiting researchers, past and present

Diogo Ferreira
Visiting PhD, 2019-2021
Instituto Superior Técnico
University of Lisbon
Supervisor: J. Canário

Nicolas Messina
Visiting MSc, October 2018
Civil Engineering
University of Maine
Supervisor: A. Amirbahman

Leonor Carvahlo
Visiting MSc, 2023
Instituto Superior Técnico
University of Lisbon
Supervisor: J. Canário

Matilde Pereira
Visiting MSc, 2022
Instituto Superior Técnico
University of Lisbon
Supervisor: J. Canário
Kateri Salk, Ph.D.
Visiting postdoc, June 2018 Environmental Geochemistry
University of Waterloo
Supervisor: S. Schiff

Cristiana Dias
Visiting MSc, 2022
Instituto Superior Técnico
University of Lisbon
Supervisor: J. Canário

Rachel Pilla, Ph.D.
Visiting PhD, 2019
Global Change Limnology
Miami University
Supervisor: C. Williamson