Our Team

Following his university study project in numerical method supervised by André Robert, he was hired at ECCC's Numerical Environmental Prediction Research RPN group to work on the development of the first versions of limited-area atmospheric models. Subsequently, his research work was oriented towards numerical environmental prediction by working on the development of the first deterministic forecasting system coupled atmosphere-ocean-ice, as well as the development of the hydrometeorological forecasting system.

Between 2006 and 2022, Pierre was in charge of the RPN group, which is responsible for developing jointly with employees of the Canadian meteorological service, as well as with several partners, the various numerical prediction models (ocean, ice, wave, ground, snow, vegetation, city, river, lake) which are coupled or forced to the GEM atmospheric model.

With Ouranos since 2022, Pierre coordinates the Climate Science and Climate Services Team.

Hélène Côté holds a Master’s in Atmospheric sciences from Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM). In 1994, she joined what was to become the regional modeling group at UQÀM that developed the Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM).

With Ouranos since 2002, Hélène Côté focuses on processing and analysis of simulations of regional climate models within the Climate Sciences team and on the dissemination of scientific information on climate and climate change.

Martin Leduc holds a PhD in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQÀM). He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Concordia University from 2013 to 2015, where he studied the interactions between anthropogenic CO₂ emissions in the atmosphere, carbon cycle dynamics and climate change.

With Ouranos since 2015, Martin focuses on the study of natural climate variability through the production of a large set of high-resolution regional climate simulations within the Climate Science group.

Travis Logan holds a Master’s in Geographical Information Systems from the University of Calgary. He worked as a G.I.S. analyst with the Canadian Forest Service in Edmonton and with Nature Conservancy Canada in Montreal.

With Ouranos since 2006, he collaborates on a large number of Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation projects within the Climate Science group.

Mourad Labassi holds a state engineering degree in Computer Science from the National Institute of Computer Science in Algeria. He worked for six years at the Center for Research in Astronomy-Astrophysics and Geophysics as a computer scientist, then as an operating engineer at Télédiffusion d'Algérie.

With Ouranos since 2003, he contributes to the implementation of the operations IT infrastructure, which he has largely modernized.

A climate researcher since 2011, Louis-Philippe Caron spent 4 years at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ​​specialized in basic and applied research, with funding from the public and the private, at national, European and international level. He co-managed a group of around 25 researchers, within a department of around 100 people, and participated in service contracts for the development of the Copernicus climate change service, including one to meet the needs of the insurance and reinsurance industry. Over the years, he has developed an extensive network of contacts in major European centers, as well as in the United States and Australia.

With Ouranos since 2020, he is in charge of the Scenarios and Climate Services group and works in particular on the support to INFO-Crue.

Diane Chaumont holds a Master’s in Physical geography from the University of Montreal. During the 1990s, she conducted research on water and sediment sampling, and data analysis, mainly through the St. Lawrence Centre and INRS-ETE. At CERCA, she learned to twin hydrological and meteorological models during studies on the Saguenay floods.

Diane joined Ouranos in 2003, first as a specialist, then as coordinator of the Climate Scenarios and Services group. She became responsible for integrating scientific information for Climate Portraits in 2023.

Dominique Paquin holds a Master’s in Atmospheric sciences from Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM). Since 1997, she has worked as a research assistant in the regional climate modeling group of the department of earth and atmospheric sciences at UQÀM.

With Ouranos since 2002, she is particularly interested in the modeling of intense precipitation, ice storms and the atmospheric humidity balance and in the communication of climate sciences within the Climate Science group.

Holder of a PhD in Atmospheric Physics from the University of Toulouse III, Émilie Bresson has worked as a research engineer on intense rain events and a postdoctoral researcher on winter storms at Météo-France. A postdoctoral researcher in collaboration with UQÀM and Ouranos, she evaluated the ice and then the snow on the ground in the Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM5). She then studied the effects of climate change on mine restoration with UQAT and Polytechnique-Montréal, as a postdoctoral researcher and then as an associate researcher.

With Ouranos since 2019, Émilie Bresson is part of the Climate Science and Climate Services team as a specialist in Research and support for innovation. She contributes to various projects, particularly those related to ice storms and mines.

David Huard holds a PhD in Water Sciences from INRS-ETE and conducted postdoctoral studies on sea ice modeling at McGill University. He has taught at college and at UQÀM, and has worked as a scientific consultant for various companies, departments and organizations.

With Ouranos since 2009, he conducts climate change studies for issues related to precipitation, hydrology and electricity production.

Biljana Music holds a Master's degree in Meteorology from the University of Belgrade and a PhD in Environmental Sciences from the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQÀM). She worked at the University of Belgrade for nearly ten years, where she taught courses in meteorology and climatology, and researched the physics of clouds and severe weather.

With Ouranos since 2007, Biljana Music focuses on the study of the interactions between the atmosphere and the earth's surface and more specifically on the processes related to the water cycle. She is part of the team of specialists of the Climate Science team and acts as an associate professor at the Faculty of Science and Engineering of Laval University.

Sarah-Claude Bourdeau-Goulet holds a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Civil Engineering from Polytechnique Montréal. Her research project investigated the impact of climate change on a series of climate indices across Canada using models from CMIP5 and CMIP6.

With Ouranos since 2021, Sarah-Claude is part of the Climate Scenarios and Services specialist group.

Marco Braun holds a PhD in Physical Geography from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, Germany. He has worked in the private sector in satellite remote sensing for hydrology applications and as a researcher at LMU. During his post-doctorate at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), he began his career as an expert in hydrological analyzes of climate model outputs.

With Ouranos since 2008, Marco Braun focuses on all issues related to water and energy resources within the Climate Science group.

Juliette Lavoie holds a Master's degree in Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences from McGill University, where she used the large CESM ensemble to assess the evolution of ocean heat fluxes under the pack ice. In the summer of 2021, she completed a joint internship between Ouranos and Hydro-Québec to help identify multiple adaptation strategies in order to support Hydro-Québec in their approach to adapting to climate change.

Since September 2021, she is the link between the Climate Scenarios and Services group and the Climate Platforms, Data and Operations group, and reflects on the integration of machine learning into Ouranos climate services.

Sarah Gammon completed a Bachelor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, graduating in 2018. Afterwards, she worked as an optical engineer at Lumentum, previously known as JDSU, from 2017 to 2019. She graduated from McGill University in 2022 with a degree in meteorology.

She has been working in the Climate Science and Services team since Fall 2022, acting as a liaison agent between the Climate Scenarios and Services and Climate Platforms, Data and Operations teams. She contributes, among other things, to the Climate Portraits platform at Ouranos.

Holder of a Master's degree in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Hydrology from the University of Sherbrooke, Gabriel Rondeau-Genesse worked as a research e, Gabriel Rondeau-Genesse has been working in the Climate Science and Climate Services group at Ouranos since 2015. He focuses primarily on studying the impact of climate change on hydrology in Quebec and has been actively involved in Ouranos' Support to INFO-Crue.

In recent years, Gabriel has also worked on the development of open tools aimed at facilitating and standardizing the production of hydroclimatic scenarios at Ouranos. 

Michel Giguère holds a Master's degree in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQÀM). In 1992, he joined the regional modeling group at UQÀM, which worked on the creation and development of the Canadian regional climate model (CRCM).

With Ouranos since 2002, Michel Giguère focuses on the different phases of the production of regional climate simulations within the Climate Science group.

Dominic Matte holds a PhD in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQÀM). He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen, as well as at the Danish Institute of Meteorology from 2018 to 2021.

During his stay in Denmark, he participated in the European Climate Prediction System project where, in addition to having actively participated in the integration of users within the project, he conducted various research that focused on extreme events, high-resolution regional simulation and predictability.

With Ouranos since 2021, he works in the Climate simulations and analyzes team.
 

Christopher McCray holds a Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from McGill University. From 2020 to 2021, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQÀM) and at Ouranos, where he studied the occurrence of freezing rain in the current and future climate in a set of regional climate simulations.

He joined the Climate simulations and analyzes team at Ouranos in 2021.

Marie-Pier Labonté holds a PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from McGill University, where she studied the atmospheric water cycle using an idealized climate model. In the summer of 2021, she completed an internship at Ouranos to create a climate data visualization tool for the Agriclimat project. At Ouranos since 2022, Marie-Pier works in the Climate Simulations and Analysis team.

Olivier Asselin holds a PhD in Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences from McGill University. From 2018 to 2020, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (La Jolla, CA) where he studied internal ocean waves generated by atmospheric storms.

Since 2020, Olivier Asselin has been focusing on the impact of land cover change as a Climatology Specialist as part of the Support for INFO-Crue initiative.

Charles holds a bachelor's degree in physics and a master's degree in geography from the Université de Montréal. 

At Ouranos since 2023, he joined the Climate Simulations and Analysis group.
 

Pascal Bourgault holds a Master's degree in Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences from McGill University, where he studied sea ice and its impact on ocean circulation in the Arctic. His academic career was punctuated by internships in Rimouski (ISMER-UQAR), Quebec (INRS-ETE), as well as in Germany (FZ Jülich and AWI Bremerhaven).

With Ouranos since 2019, he is part of the team of climate science specialists, where he contributes to the development of climate analysis tools.

Trevor James Smith holds a Master’s degree in Geography, Urbanism and Environmental Studies from Concordia University. In particular, he examined the impact of climate change on Quebec vineyards using climate scenarios and Open Source software.

He has also worked as an environmental research consultant and geographic information systems specialist related to disaster risk management planning in the Eastern Caribbean.

Since joining Ouranos in 2018, his main responsibilities within the Climate Platforms, Data and Operations group include contributing to the development and maintenance of climate research software, as well as supporting the strategic implementation of new technologies and coding standards. He also plays a role in overseeing the integration and management of climate data to enhance climate research support and advance research and development initiatives.

Long Vu holds a bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from Concordia University. He has worked as a software developer since 2004 for several companies such as Oracle, Vantrix and Intelerad Medical Systems.

With Ouranos since 2019, he is part of the Climate Science team where he contributes to the PAVICS platform (Platform for the Analysis and Visualization of Climate Science).

Éric Dupuis holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the Université de Montréal. D. in theoretical physics from the Université de Montréal. He specialized in field theory and the study of topological defects, particularly in applications related to quantum phases of matter.

At Ouranos since 2022, he is part of the team of specialists in climate science, contributing to the development of climate analysis tools and supporting research and development.

Louise Arnal holds a PhD in Environmental Science from Reading University (2019), which she co-authored in collaboration with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), as well as an MSc in Hydrology completed at Vrije Universiteit (VU), Amsterdam, and a BSc in Earth Sciences from Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris.

She worked as a scientist at ECMWF between 2014 and 2020. More recently, she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher and then as a Research Associate with Global Water Futures and the Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology (CIROH) at the University of Saskatchewan, in Canmore. Her research focused on advancing the science and practice of ensemble hydrological forecasting, with an emphasis on seasonal time scales. 

As an artist and scientist, Louise aims to foster scientific engagement through the fusion of science and art. She is the principal curator of the science-art project Virtual Water Gallery. Louise is also co-editor of ConciliARTe, part of the science-poetry journal Consilience, and associate editor of Geoscience Communication. Louise is an active member of HEPEX's global hydrological ensemble forecasting community and is a co-chair of Early Career-HEPEX.

Blaise Gauvin St-Denis holds a Master's degree in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from McGill University, as well as a Master's degree in Machine Learning (Computer Science) from Mila / Université de Montréal. Blaise has accumulated over a decade of experience at Ouranos in the analysis and processing of climate data for use in impact models, mainly in the field of hydrology. He also developed neural networks for flood detection from satellite radar images at Natural Resources Canada. Back at Ouranos since March 2024, he holds the position of Artificial Intelligence Specialist.

With a bachelor's degree in physics from McGill University, Frédéric was involved in solid-state research and took part in national physics competitions. He began his career in information technology, but very quickly, given his programming and technical (server) skills, moved on to new responsibilities. Frédéric joined Ouranos in July 2024 as Infrastructure Management Specialist for scientific computing and climate data