André St-Hilaire is chairing the organizing committee of the 2009 conference of the Canadian Water Resources Association (CWRA). The conference theme is: Water quantity and quality: trends and new challenges in water resources management. Information can be found at www.cwra2009.org. Valerie Ouellet and Anik Daigle are also involved in the organization of this conference.
André is also the co-organizer of a workshop to be held in Moncton in April 2009 entitled “Of scales and indices: bridging the land/water divide”. This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners who are working on assessing the ecological health of rivers and coastal zones with the objective of discussing future research needs, with an emphasis on attempting to find common ground between terrestrial and aquatic ecologists.
Dae Jeong is a post-doctoral fellow working on the development of a statistical downscaling method in order to generate multisite climate information. General Circulation Models (GCMs) commonly operate at large spatial scales and provide a reasonable representation of global and continental scale processes. Statistical downscaling is a way to infer local information from coarse scale information by applying statistical links between large scale fields and local conditions.
Anik Daigle is working on various different projects: 1) the comparison of parametric and non-parametric estimations of annual water temperature cycle starting date (with André St-Hilaire, Taha B.M.J. Ouarda, INRS-ETE; and Laurent Bilodeau, Hydro-Québec); 2) Multivariate modeling of water temperature in the Okanagan system (with André St-Hilaire, INRS-ETE; Daniel Peters and Donald Baird, Environment Canada); and 3) Analyses of streamflow characteristics of Quebec and Atlantic Provinces rivers (with Daniel Caissie and Loubna Benyahya, Fisheries and Oceans; André St-Hilaire, INRS-ETE; and Dan Beveridge, UNB).
