La planification des apports hydriques est primordiale pour la production d’hydroélectricité. C’est pourquoi Hydro-Québec vise à continuellement accentuer la performance de ses modèles hydrologiques. Pour ce faire, plusieurs paramètres journaliers sont utilisés, tel que l’humidité des sols. Grâce aux travaux de recherches préalables, il a été possible de proposer une méthode d’utilisation des données brutes […]

Avec l’avènement de l’ère numérique, accompagnée d’une automatisation et d’une puissance de calcul toujours croissante, le devenir des interactions humains-machines est appelé à des changements inéluctables. Le domaine de l’hydrologie prévisionnelle n’est pas indifférent à cette nouvelle réalité en regard des progrès constants de l’intelligence artificielle. L’automatisation et la redondance dans les systèmes de prévisions […]

Carbon dioxide is produced from the combustion of fossil fuels and as a by-product of many chemical processes. The increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere has now been decisively linked to global climate change. The use CO2 as a carbon-building block has attracted much attention due to its low cost, ease availability, and its […]

This project is a collaboration between Drs. Jennifer Provencher, Jesse Vermaire, and Christina Davy at Carleton University in which the two student interns will quantify microplastic contents in various environmental samples to improve our understanding of the fate of microplastics in the environment. The students will learn to assess microplastics in environmental samples (e.g. scat, […]

Sediment transport in gravel-bed rivers controls the river morphology, aquatic habitat, and landscape evolution. The sediment supply together with the flow dictates the amount and texture of the supplied sediment to the channel and likely influences the transport rates, bed stability, and evolution of the bed surface. However, the previous research mainly focused on the […]

This project focuses on developing a mixed wettability surface to improve the freshwater yield of a solar thermal desalination system. The solar desalination system that will be used for this project is the solar still system. The objective is to find the optimized ratio of high wettability to low wettability area on a polymeric surface […]

The amount of water and sediment entering a river control the nature of its flow. In landscapes vulnerable to climate change, e.g., changes in precipitation, hydrology, or the disappearance of glaciers, this could result in significant changes in water and sediment inputs to rivers. The consequence of this may be down-stream flooding with negative impacts […]

Water resource management has been a challenge facing many regions worldwide, including Vietnam and Canada. Reservoirs are crucial in water management. The project is to further the intern’s PhD research on improving the reservoir operational rule with a case study of Thac Mo Reservoir in southern Vietnam. A model combining a rainfall-runoff framework, reservoir operating […]

The private water sources of the remote rural communities in Newfoundland and Labrador are under constant threat from multiple contaminations, however, there is no existing affordable and accessible laboratory facility available to monitor those water samples. Previous studies highlighted the serious long-term health and economic implications of the hidden contaminations. Therefore, there is an urgent […]

Land-atmosphere interactions strongly impact the exchange of heat and water vapor between the land and the atmosphere and play an important role for regional climates. How heat and water vapor exchange affect the near-surface climate is linked to the diurnal growth and decline of the atmospheric boundary layer – the atmospheric layer, which is directly […]

The ocean is receiving much of the plastic waste generated on land and it is calculated that yearly up to 12.7 million tons of them enters in our oceans bringing a drastic environmental problem. This project seeks to create an autonomous boat made with recycled plastics, to clean up plastic waste in the oceans. The […]

Floods are an increasing threat worldwide causing widespread destruction, loss of life, economic damages and social impacts. Contributing factors include population density growth in urban areas and increasing impervious areas which disrupts the natural hydrological cycle. Accurate flood risk assessments are therefore required to help cities and institutions to better prepare inhabitants to the occurrence […]