Studies & research
Actions en justice pour lutter contre le réchauffement climatique : possibilités et limites de diverses stratégies contentieuses contre les États et les entreprises, dans une perspective de justice climatique
- Amount :
- 36000 - Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada (CRSH)
- Start date :
- January 2018
- End date :
- January 2020
- Associated axis :
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- Transversal axis: Governance and management
Theme 3: Governance objectives and tools
- Reasearchers involved :
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Paule Halley,
Paule Halley
Aide à l'organisation du colloque "'Leau dans les Amériques"
- Amount :
- 5000 - Centre de Recherches pour le Développement International (CRDI)
- Start date :
- August 2004
- End date :
- December 2004
- Associated axis :
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- Transversal axis: Governance and management
Theme 3: Governance objectives and tools
- Reasearcher involved :
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Frédéric Lasserre
Améliorer la compréhension et les potentialités des systèmes de prévision hydrologique d'ensemble à court-moyen terme
- Amount :
- 310 000 - Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Naturelles et Génie du Canada (CRSNG) (Découvertes)
- Start date :
- April 2020
- End date :
- March 2025
- Associated axes :
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- Axis Water Availability
Theme 2: Hydrometeorological regime under climate
- Transversal axis: Governance and management
Theme 2: Risks and disrupters of governance
- Reasearchers involved :
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François Anctil,
François Anctil
Apport de la mission SWOT pour améliorer les connaissances du bilan hydrique et de la connectivité des lacs canadiens.
- Amount :
- 249 700 - Agence Spatiale Canadienne (ASC)
- Start date :
- April 2021
- End date :
- March 2024
- Associated axis :
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- Transversal axis: Governance and management
Theme 3: Governance objectives and tools
- Reasearchers involved :
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Mélanie Trudel,
Mélanie Trudel
Apport du satellite SWOT pour l'étude du bilan hydrique des lacs et réservoirs au Québec
- Amount :
- 108 700 - Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT) (Relève professorale)
- Start date :
- June 2021
- End date :
- May 2023
- Associated axes :
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- Axis Water Availability
Theme 3: Flow rates and water levels
- Transversal axis: Governance and management
Theme 3: Governance objectives and tools
- Reasearchers involved :
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Mélanie Trudel,
Mélanie Trudel
Approche transdisciplinaire du processus décisionnel pour la planification urbaine des Solutions fondées sur la Nature (SFN)
- Amount :
- 10000 - Institut en environnement, développement et société de l'Université Laval, Future Earth et le ministère des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie (MRIF) (Solutions fondées sur la nature (SFN) et les Objectifs de développement durable (ODD))
- Start date :
- January 2022
- End date :
- January 2023
- Associated axes :
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- Transversal axis: Governance and management
Theme 3: Governance objectives and tools
- Axis Uses of water
Theme 1: Water needs and uses of cities
- Reasearchers involved :
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Peter Vanrolleghem,
Danielle Dagenais,
Roxane Lavoie,
Françoise Bichai,
Peter Vanrolleghem,
Françoise Bichai,
Roxane Lavoie
Approches de séquençage du SRAS-CoV-2 dans les eaux usées pour optimiser la surveillance au niveau de la population et améliorer l'épidémiologie du COVID-19
- Amount :
- 300000 - McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity (Mi4 Emergency COVID-19 Research Funding)
- Start date :
- September 2020
- End date :
- April 2021
- Associated axes :
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- Axis Water Availability
Theme 1: Integrated quantity and quality simulations
- Transversal axis: Governance and management
Theme 2: Risks and disrupters of governance
- Reasearchers involved :
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Dominic Frigon,
Robert Delatolla,
Sarah Dorner,
Sarah Dorner,
Dominic Frigon
Bond2.0 - Deploying light-based sensing technologies to monitor climate active gases in a mutating Arctic
- Amount :
- 674 900 - Sentinelle Nord
- Start date :
- June 2021
- End date :
- October 2023
- Associated axis :
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- Transversal axis: Governance and management
Theme 2: Risks and disrupters of governance
- Reasearchers involved :
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Warwick Vincent,
Daniel Nadeau,
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Warwick Vincent,
Daniel Nadeau
COVID-19 wastewater-based epidemiology back calculation using hybrid modelling methods
- Amount :
- 50000 - Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) (Alliance Grants)
- Start date :
- August 2020
- End date :
- July 2021
- Associated axes :
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- Transversal axis: Governance and management
Theme 2: Risks and disrupters of governance
- Transversal axis: Governance and management
Theme 3: Governance objectives and tools
- Reasearchers involved :
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Peter Vanrolleghem,
Peter Vanrolleghem
Canada Research Chair in Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements
- Amount :
- 1000000 - Chaires de recherche du Canada (CRC) (Chaires de recherche du Canada (niveau II))
- Start date :
- June 2011
- End date :
- May 2016
- Associated axes :
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- Transversal axis: Governance and management
Theme 2: Risks and disrupters of governance
- Axis Uses of water
Theme 1: Water needs and uses of cities
- Axis Uses of water
Theme 2: Water uses for primary production
- Axis Uses of water
Theme 3: Water use in secondary production
- Reasearcher involved :
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Claude Fortin
- Description :
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The rules that govern environmental protection evolve continuously as we acquire new knowledge through research. Many human activities introduce contaminants like metals into aquatic ecosystems—for example, mining and recycling. To evaluate the ecological risks linked to these activities, we need to characterize the ways in which these contaminants are introduced into the environment and how indigenous organisms are exposed to them. We also need to evaluate their impact.
Dr. Claude Fortin, Canada Research Chair in Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements, is working on understanding and predicting how metals accumulate in our waters. Fortin’s research has three goals: developing analytical techniques that accurately measure trace metals in an ecosystem (such as a lake or river); defining the links between the chemical forms of trace metals (speciation) and the composition of the receiving environment, as well as their accumulation within the indigenous organisms; and gaining a better understanding of what happens to these metals after they are absorbed into the ecosystem.
Fortin and his research team have adopted an integrated approach to the extracellular/intracellular continuum, starting from the moment aquatic organisms are exposed to trace metal contamination. For this reason, their research focuses on microscopic algae (phytoplankton).
This research will lead to better tools to predict the impact metals can have on waterways. These tools will play an essential role in the work of environmental managers in the public and private sectors who are responsible for ensuring our waterways are adequately protected. They will also lead to more effective environmental protection standards.