
Current research professionals

David Trejo (B. Sc.) | Research support professional, CARBONIC project (2024 - present)
Member of GEOTOP and GRIL
Email: trejo_cancino.david_ulises@uqam.ca
Local : SB-2210
Installation, maintenance and use of advanced equipment to guarantee accurate data collection. Calibration of scientific equipment and database maintenance. Learn more about the project

Martina Schlaipfer (M. Sc.) | Research professional (2024 - present)
Member of GEOTOP and GRIL
Email: schlaipfer.martina@uqam.ca
Local : SB-1840
Scientific coordinator of the CARBONIQUE project.
Participation in several projects related to greenhouse gas exchange in disturbed and rewetted agricultural peatlands in Germany. Eddy covariance and chamber flux measurements. Learn more about the project

Tiina Kolari (Ph.D.) | Postdoctoral intern (2024 - present)
GEOTOP member
Email: kolari.tiina@uqam.ca
Local : SB-1840
Étudie le stockage du carbone et changements récents dans les tourbières du parc national Wapusk, basses terres de la baie d’Hudson. Learn more about the project

Dalton April Sue (Ph. D.) | Stagiaire postdoctoral (2024 – à ce jour)
Email: dalton.april_sue@uqam.ca
Cartographie des stocks de carbone des tourbières du Canada. Learn more about the project

Léonie Perrier (M. Sc.) | Research support professional (2021 - present)
Member of GEOTOP and GRIL Coordinator of the C-Paleo laboratory
Email: perrier.leonie@uqam.ca
Local : SB-1825
Léonie Perrier manages field logistics, budgets, progress reports and provides student support for several research projects on carbon stock mapping, paleoecological reconstructions and carbon budgets in wetlands (Chaire de recherche sur la sequestration du carbone par les tourbières et autres milieux humides d’intérêts). CARBONIQUE is one of the many projects she contributes to.

Gabriel Magnan (Ph. D.) | Research professional (2020 - present)
GEOTOP and CEN member
Email: magnan.gabriel@uqam.ca
Phone: 514 987-3000 ext. 3900
Room: A-4330
In charge of southern Québec projects
In charge of updating the C-PALEO database
Carbon guide project in collaboration with MELCCFP
Postdoctoral intern (2013-2020)
Recent changes (~100 years) in carbon accumulation in high-latitudes Canadian peatlands and their potential C sink capacity (2019-2020)
Reconstitution of the initial conditions for boreal forest paludification (2014-2017)
Carbon in boreal peatlands (2013-2014)

Nicole K. Sanderson (Ph. D.) | Research professional (2020 - present)
GEOTOP and CEN member
Email: sanderson.nicole@uqam.ca
Phone: (514) 987-3000 ext. 20732
Room: A-4125
In charge of northern Québec projects
Postdoctoral intern (2017-2020)
Recent changes (~100 years) in carbon accumulation in high-latitudes Canadian peatlands and their potential C sink capacity (2019-2020)
Preliminary estimate of carbon stocks and sinks in Québec wetlands. Estimation of recent carbon accumulation in relation to global warming. (2017-2018)
Former research professionals

Chloé Giraud (B. Sc.) | Research support professional (2021-2022)
Participating in updating the C-PALEO database and the C-PALEO website
In charge of developing partnerships with northern communities for the conservation of carbon stocks in Québec's northern ecosystems.

Louis-Martin Pilote (M. Sc.) | Research support professional (2018)
In charge of Paleoecology and carbon sequestration

Pierre Taillardat (Ph. D.) | Postdoctoral intern (2018-2020)
Bilan carbone écosystémique net d’une tourbière nordique (La Romaine, Québec, Canada) Atmospheric carbon fluxes from a boreal peatland – La Romaine case study (2018 – 2020)

Simon van Bellen (Ph. D.) | Postdoctoral intern (2015-2017)
Modelling of peatland paleohydrology, northern Quebec (2016-2017)
Quantification of carbon stocks in the Quebec province (2015-2016)

Hans Asnong (M. Sc.) | Research professional (2004-2013)
In charge of Paleoecology and carbon sequestration
Coordinator of the DÉCLIQUE research chair

Alexandre Lamarre (M. Sc.) | Research assistant (2011)
In charge of paleoecology and paleohydrology of peat ecosystems

Luc Pelletier (Ph. D.) | Research professional (2010)
In charge of GHG and surface dynamics