More than any other life stage, the hatching of eggs is the most important factor in the maintenance of dabbling duck populations. Rates of nest success are suppressed by predators like foxes, coyotes, skunks, and crows. Populations of these predators can be artificially high due to habitat alterations resulting from human development. The Delta Waterfowl […]

L’intérêt premier de ce projet de recherche est de permettre un transfert des connaissances acquises depuis 2009 sur la dynamique du bois en rivière aux acteurs locaux et provinciaux des rivières québécoises. L’un des objectifs du projet est d’utiliser la problématique des embâcles de la rivière Saint-Jean comme une étude de cas pour montrer comment […]

Balch Exploration Consulting Inc. (BECI) develops low cost geophysical survey solutions to the natural resources sector. They are investing in the development of a rotary-wing unmanned aircraft system (UAS) with a new high-precision fluxgate magnetometer. The general objective of this internship is to develop a rotary-wing UAS for aeromagnetic surveying. Specific objectives are to: assemble […]

Morphodynamic models are increasingly used in watershed management to predict the evolution of river channels and to test management scenarios prior to their implementation. The impact of plants in riparian zones is particularly critical to better document, but the current models rarely integrate this component. This project will use a bank erosion module and a […]

Unstructured data refers to data that is present in reports, web pages, newspapers and other media. Such data is the most common data that we see around us and yet no modern tools exist to extract information from it. In this project we will develop techniques to extract the data and apply it to geoscientific […]

L’utilisation prophylactique des néonicotinoïdes dans le maïs et le soya, qui cause la mortalité des abeilles et la contamination des cours d’eau au Québec et ailleurs dans le monde, est due en partie au fait qu’on connaît très peu la biologie des principaux insectes de sol retrouvés dans ces cultures. Ainsi, la principale espèce de […]

Au Québec, la gestion intégrée de l’eau la gestion intégrée de l’eau par bassin versant est devenu l’une des pierres angulaires de la Politique Québécoise de l’eau. Par conséquent, la qualité, le rôle des bandes riveraines intéressent au plus haut point les autorités de la gestion des ressources hydriques en particulier les municipalités. L’objectif de […]

Forest management in Canada will be more and more constrained by species habitat requirements as well as the risks and results of natural disturbances. The recent, sever Mountain Pine Beetle outbreak in the interior of British Columbia resulted in a harvest shortage of lodgepole pine in this region. Forest managers now rely heavily on non-pine […]

Different snowpack structures and weather conditions create distinct types of avalanche problems that require different risk mitigation practices. In North America, nine types of avalanche problems have been identified in the recently introduced Conceptual Model of Avalanche Hazard (CMAH). Avalanche Canada and Parks Canada forecasters have identified and assessed avalanche problems according to the CMAH […]

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) can deliver needed substantial emission reductions as we transition to alternative fuels. However, it is important to verify that CO2 being injected into the subsurface is well contained within the geologic container. This student will construct soil gas wells, as well as conduct surface monitoring research to define normal fluctuations […]

L’interaction entre les sulfures contenus dans les rejets miniers, l’eau et l’oxygène peut mener à la formation du phénomène du drainage minier acide (DMA) si le potentiel de neutralisation de ces rejets est insuffisant pour contrer l’acidité produite. Le DMA est caractérisé par une acidité élevée et des concentrations en métaux importantes. Il existe plusieurs […]

Human influence on current climate change is now unequivocal. The rate of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions continues to increase, and climate models and observations show that climate changes are accelerating in response to these emissions. In this context, the rate of the current climate change strongly modifies the frequency and the intensity of extreme events, […]