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Diane Lavoie
SE RES
Email: Diane.Lavoie@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Phone: (418) 775-0608
Fax: (418) 775-0546
Region: Quebec
Field(s) of Research:
- Biological Oceanography
- Ocean Climate
- Physical Oceanography
Research Description:
My interests include the impacts of climate change on planktonic ecosystems and on biogeochemical cycles in Arctic and Subarctic Seas and the development of coupled sea ice-ocean-ecosystem models. I am currently working on the development of coupled 3D ice-ocean-biogeochemical (NPZD-O2-pH) models for the Gulf of St. Lawrence to study the impacts of anthropogenic forcing (e.g. hydro-electric development, eutrophisation, climate change) and climate variability on primary production, aggregation of whale forage species (krill), and on the development of a hypoxic and acid zone in the estuary
Degrees:
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Ph.D. (2008)University of Victoria
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M. Sc. (1996)University of Quebec at Rimouski
Centre(s) of Expertise:
Publications:
- Daytime depth and thermal habitat of two sympatric krill species in response to surface salinity variability in the Gulf of St Lawrence, eastern Canada
- Modelling the influence of daytime distribution on the transport of two sympatric krill species (Thysanoessa raschii and Meganyctiphanes norvegica) in the Gulf of St Lawrence, eastern Canada
- Development and validation of a one-dimensional snow-ice-algae model against observations in Resolute Passage, Canadian Arctic Archipelago
- Effects of climate warming on primary productivity and export fluxes in the Beaufort Sea
- Primary productivity and export fluxes on the Canadian shelf of the Beaufort Sea: a modelling study
- Modelling Primary Production in Seasonally Ice-Covered Regions of the Arctic Ocean and its Response to Climate Change
- Identification of ecologically and biologically significant areas (EBSA) in the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence: Primary production
- Modelling ice algal growth and decline in a seasonally ice-covered region of the Arctic (Resolute Passage, Canadian Archipelago)
- Channel head dynamics: capelin (Mallotus villosus) aggregation in the tidally driven upwelling system of the Saguenay - St. Lawrence Marine Park's whale feeding ground
- Aggregations and dispersion of krill at channel heads and shelf edges: the dynamics in the Saguenay - St. Lawrence Marine Park.
- The rich krill aggregation of the Saguenay - St. Lawrence Marine Park: hydroacoustic and geostatistical biomass estimates, structure, variability and significance for whales
- Réponse hydrodynamique de la Baie des Chaleurs au passage d'une forte tempête
- Distribution des masses d'eau à la tête du chenal Laurentien dans l'estuaire du Saint-Laurent aux étés 1994 et 1995.
- Physical features of the Miramichi Estuary
