Students supervised:

Stéphanie Coulombe (Collaborator)

Elisabeth Hardy-Lachance (PhD Student)

Eva Thévenin (MSc Student)

Mohammad Hossein Gamshadzaei (PhD Student)

Zhaoyi Zhang (MSc Student)

Eliot Sicaud (PhD Student)

Students co-supervised:

Julie Malenfant Lepage (PhD Student)

Tom Birien (PhD Student)

Scientific Communications

Davesne, G., Fortier, D., Domine, F., Kinnard, C., 2023. Mass-balance and ablation processes of a perennial polar ice patch on the northern coast of Ellesmere Island. Journal of Glaciology: 1-18. DOI: 10.1017/jog.2023.44.

Lamarque, L., Jim, F.-F., Deschamps, L., Lévesque, E., Cusson, P.-O., Fortier, D., Giacomazzo, M., Guillemette, F., Paillassa, J., Tremblay, M., Maire, V., 2023. Hydrological Regime and Plant Functional Traits Jointly Mediate the Influence of Salix spp. on Soil Organic Carbon Stocks in a High Arctic Tundra. Ecosystems. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-023-00829-1.

Coulombe, S., Fortier, D., Bouchard, F., Paquette, M., Charbonneau, S., Lacelle, D., Laurion, I., Pienitz, R., 2022. Contrasted geomorphological and limnological properties of thermokarst lakes formed in buried glacier ice and ice-wedge polygon terrain. The Cryosphere, 16: 2837–2857. DOI: 10.5194/tc-16-2837-2022.

Davesne, G., Fortier, D., Domine, F., 2022. Properties and stratigraphy of polar ice patches in the Canadian High Arctic reveal their current resilience to warm summers. Arctic Science, 8(2): 414-449. DOI: 10.1139/as-2021-0011.

Deschamps, L., Maire, V., Chen, L., Fortier, D., Gauthier, G., Morneault, A., Hardy-Lachance, E., Dalcher-Gosselin, I., Tanguay, F., Gignac, C., McKenzie, J., Rochefort, L., Lévesque, E., 2022. Increased nutrient availability speeds up permafrost development, while goose grazing slows it down in a Canadian High Arctic wetland. Journal of Ecology, 00: 1-15. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.14037.

Gagnon, S., Fortier, D., Sliger, M., Rioux, K., 2022. Air-convection-reflective sheds: A mitigation technique that stopped degradation and promoted permafrost recovery under the Alaska Highway, south-western Yukon, Canada. Cold Regions Science and Technology, 197, 103524. DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2022.103524.

Ola, A., Fortier, D., Coulombe, S., Comte, J., Domine, F., 2022. The distribution of soil carbon and nitrogen stocks among dominant geomorphological terrain units in Qarlikturvik Valley, Bylot Island, Arctic Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 127(7), e2021JG006750. DOI: 10.1029/2021JG006750.

Chen, L., Voss, C., Fortier, D., McKenzie, J.M., 2021. Surface energy balance of sub-arctic roads with varying snow regimes and properties in permafrost regions. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 32(4): 681-701. DOI: 10.1002/ppp.2129.

Davesne, G., Domine, F., Fortier, D., 2021. Effects of meteorology and soil moisture on the spatio-temporal evolution of the depth hoar layer in the polar desert snowpack. Journal of Glaciology, 68(269): 457-472. DOI: 10.1017/jog.2021.105.

Lapierre Poulin, F., Fortier, D., Berteaux, D., 2021. Low vulnerability of arctic fox dens to climate change-related geohazards on Bylot Island, Nunavut. Arctic Science, 7(4): 746-761. DOI: 10.1139/AS-2019-0007.

McKenzie, J.M., Kurylyk, B.L., Walvoord, M.A., Bense, V.F., Fortier, D., Spence, C., Grenier, C., 2021. Invited perspective: What lies beneath a changing Arctic? The Cryosphere, 15(1): 479-484. DOI: 10.5194/tc-15-479-2021.

Preskienis, V., Laurion, I., Bouchard, F., Douglas, P., Billett, M., Fortier, D., Xu, X., 2021. Seasonal patterns in greenhouse gas emissions from lakes and ponds in a High Arctic polygonal landscape. Limnology and Oceanography, 66(S1: Biogeochemistry and ecology across Arctic aquatic ecosystems in the face of change): S117-S141. DOI: 10.1002/lno.11660.

Shur, Y., Jones, B.M., Kanevskiy, M., Jorgenson, T., Ward Jones, M.K., Fortier, D., Stephani, E., Vasiliev, A., 2021. Fluvio-thermal erosion and thermal denudation in the yedoma region of northern Alaska: Revisiting the Itkillik River exposure. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 32(2 - Special Issue: Hugh French memorial for Permafrost and Periglacial Processes): 277-298. DOI: 10.1002/ppp.2105.

Strauss, J., Laboor, S., Schirrmeister, L., Fedorov, A.N., Fortier, D., Froese, D., Fuchs, M., Günther, F., Grigoriev, M., Harden, J., Hugelius, G., Longejans, L.L., Kanevskiy, M., Kholodov, A., Kunitskiy, V., Kraev, G., Lozhkin, A., Rivkina, E., Shur, Y., Siegert, C., Spektor, V., Streletskaya, I., Ulrich, M., Vartanyan, S., Veremeeva, A., Walter Anthony, K., Wetterich, S., Zimov, N., Grosse, G., 2021. Circum-Arctic map of the Yedoma permafrost domain. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, 758360. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2021.758360.

Bouchard, F., Fortier, D., Paquette, M., Boucher, V., Pienitz, R., Laurion, I., 2020. Thermokarst lake inception and development in syngenetic ice-wedge polygon terrain during a cooling climatic trend, Bylot Island (Nunavut), eastern Canadian Arctic. The Cryosphere, 14(8): 2607-2627. DOI: 10.5194/tc-14-2607-2020.

Chen, L., Fortier, D., McKenzie, J.M., Sliger, M., 2020. Impact of heat advection on the thermal regime of roads built on permafrost. Hydrological Processes, 34(7): 1647-1664. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.13688.

Chiasson-Poirier, G., Franssen, J., Lafrenière, M.J., Fortier, D., Lamoureux, S., 2020. Seasonal evolution of active layer thaw depth and hillslope‐stream connectivity in a permafrost watershed. Water Resources Research, 56(1), e2019WR025828. DOI: 10.1029/2019WR025828.

Paquette, M., Fortier, D., Lafrenière, M., Vincent, W.F., 2020. Periglacial slopewash dominated by solute transfers and subsurface erosion on a High Arctic slope. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 31(4): 472-486. DOI: 10.1002/ppp.2066.

Paquette, M., Fortier, D., Lamoureux, S.F., 2020. Cryostratigraphical studies of ground ice formation and distribution in a High Arctic polar desert landscape, Resolute Bay, Nunavut. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences(published online 2020-12-01). DOI: 10.1139/cjes-2020-0134.

Paquette, M., Rudy, A.C.A., Fortier, D., Lamoureux, S.F., 2020. Multi-scale site evaluation of a relict active layer detachment in a High Arctic landscape. Geomorphology, 359, 107159. DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107159.

Coulombe, S., Fortier, D., Lacelle, D., Kanevskiy, M., Shur, Y., 2019. Origin, burial and preservation of late Pleistocene-age glacier ice in Arctic permafrost (Bylot Island, NU, Canada). The Cryosphere, 13(1): 97–111. DOI: 10.5194/tc-13-97-2019.

Davesne, G., Fortier, D., Lévesque, E., Domine, F., Rioux, K., 2019. The polar ice patch project - Fieldwork 2019. Présentation auprès de Park Canada et the Resolute Bay HTA. Resolute, Nunavut, Canada.

Khider, D., Emile‐Geay, J., McKay, N.P., Gil, Y., Garijo, D., Ratnakar, V., Alonso‐Garcia, M., Bertrand, S., Bothe, O., Brewer, P., Bunn, A., Chevalier, M., Comas‐Bru, L., Csank, A., Dassié, E., DeLong, K., Felis, T., Francus, P., Frappier, A., Gray, W., Goring, S., Jonkers, L., Kahle, M., Kaufman, D., Kehrwald, N.M., Martrat, B., McGregor, H., Richey, J., Schmittner, A., Scroxton, N., Sutherland, E., Thirumalai, K., Allen, K., Arnaud, F., Axford, Y., Barrows, T., Bazin, L., Pilaar Birch, S.E., Bradley, E., Bregy, J., Capron, E., Cartapanis, O., Chiang, H.-W., Cobb, K.M., Debret, M., Dommain, R., Du, J., Dyez, K., Emerick, S., Erb, M.P., Falster, G., Finsinger, W., Fortier, D., Gauthier, N., George, S., Grimm, E., Hertzberg, J., Hibbert, F., Hillman, A., Hobbs, W., Huber, M., Hughes, A.L.C., Jaccard, S., Ruan, J., Kienast, M., Konecky, B., Le Roux, G., Lyubchich, V., Novello, V.F., Olaka, L., Partin, J.W., Pearce, C., Phipps, S.J., Pignol, C., Piotrowska, N., Poli, M.-S., Prokopenko, A., Schwanck, F., Stepanek, C., Swann, G.E.A., Telford, R., Thomas, E., Thomas, Z., Truebe, S., von Gunten, L., Waite, A., Weitzel, N., Williams, J., Williams, J.J., Winstrup, M., Zhao, N., Zhou, Y., 2019. PaCTS 1.0: A crowdsourced reporting standard for paleoclimate data. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34(10): 1570-1596. DOI: 10.1029/2019PA003632.

Ramage, J.L., Fortier, D., Hugelius, G., Lantuit, H., Morgenstern, A., 2019. Distribution of carbon and nitrogen along hillslopes in three valleys on Herschel Island, Yukon Territory, Canada. Catena, 178: 132-140. DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2019.02.029.

Bonnaventure, P.P., Smith, S.L., Lamoureux, S.F., Way, R.G., Bouchard, F., Fortier, D., Paquette, M., Godin, E., 2018. Permafrost. Pages 119-140 dans From Science to Policy in the Eastern Canadian Arctic: An Integrated Regional Impact Study (IRIS) of Climate Change and Moderization. ArcticNet.

Lacelle, D., Fisher, D.A., Coulombe, S., Fortier, D., Frappier, R., 2018. Buried remnants of the Laurentide Ice Sheet and connections to its surface elevation. Scientific Reports, 8: 13286. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-31166-2.

Paquette, M., Fortier, D., Vincent, W.F., 2018. Hillslope water tracks in the High Arctic: Seasonal flow dynamics with changing water sources in preferential flow paths. Hydrological Processes, 32(8): 1077-1089. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.11483.

Beardsell, A., Gauthier, G., Fortier, D., Therrien, J.-F., Bêty, J., 2017. Vulnerability to geomorphological hazards of an arctic cliff-nesting raptor, the rough-legged hawk. Arctic Science, 3(2): 203-219. DOI: 10.1139/AS-2016-0025.

Davesne, G., Fortier, D., Domine, F., Gray, J.T., 2017. Wind-driven snow conditions control the occurrence of contemporary marginal mountain permafrost in the Chic-Choc Mountains, south-eastern Canada: A case study from Mont Jacques-Cartier. The Cryosphere, 11(3): 1351-1370. DOI: 10.5194/tc-11-1351-2017, 2017.

Fortier, D., McKenzie, J., Scibek, M., Sliger, M., Grandmont, K., 2017. Best practices in groundwater monitoring for northern Canada: final report. Rapport préparé pour Government of Northwest Territories. 199 pages.

Gray, J.T., Davesne, G., Fortier, D., Godin, E., 2017. The thermal regime of mountain permafrost at the summit of Mont Jacques-Cartier in the Gaspé Peninsula, Québec, Canada: A 37 year record of fluctuations showing an overall warming trend. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 28(1): 266-274. DOI: 10.1002/ppp.1903.

Lapalme, C.M., Lacelle, D., Pollard, W., Fortier, D., Davila, A., McKay, C.P., 2017. Cryostratigraphy and the sublimation unconformity in permafrost from an ultraxerous environment, University Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 28(4): 649-662. DOI: 10.1002/ppp.1948 .

Lapointe Elmrabti, L., Talbot, J., Fortier, D., Fréchette, B., Strauss, J., Kanevskiy, M., Shur, Y., 2017. Middle to late Wisconsinan climate and ecological changes in northern Alaska: Evidences from the Itkillik River Yedoma. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 485: 906-916. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.08.006.

Muster, S., Roth, K., Langer, M., Lange, S., Cresto Aleina, F., Bartsch, A., Morgenstern, A., Grosse, G., Jones, B., Sannel, A.B.K., Sjöberg, Y., Günther, F., Andresen, C., Veremeeva, A., Lindgren, P.R., Bouchard, F., Lara, M.J., Fortier, D., Charbonneau, S., Virtanen, T.A., Hugelius, G., Palmtag, J., Siewert, M.B., Riley, W.J., Koven, C.D., Boike, J., 2017. PeRL: a circum-Arctic Permafrost Region Pond and Lake database. Earth System Science Data, 9(1): 317-348. DOI: 10.5194/essd-9-317-2017.

Paquette, M., Fortier, D., Vincent, W.F., 2017. Water tracks in the High Arctic: A hydrological network dominated by rapid subsurface flow through patterned ground. Arctic Science, 3(2): 334-353. DOI: 10.1139/AS-2016-0014.

Perreault, N., Lévesque, E., Fortier, D., Gratton, D., Lamarque, L.J., 2017. Remote sensing evaluation of High Arctic wetland depletion following permafrost disturbance by thermo-erosion gullying processes. Arctic Science, 3(2): 237-253. DOI: 10.1139/AS-2016-0047.

Rioux, K., Fortier, D., 2017. Utilisation d’abristhermo-réflectifs pour prévenir la dégradation du pergélisol: cas de l’Alaska Highway, Beaver Creek, Yukon. Symposium ARQULUK. Québec, Québec.

Strauss, J., Schirrmeister, L., Grosse, G., Fortier, D., Hugelius, G., Knoblauch, C., Romanovsky, V., Schädel, C., Schneider von Deimling, T., Schuur, E.A.G., Shmelev, D., Ulrich, M., Veremeeva, A., 2017. Deep Yedoma permafrost: A synthesis of depositional characteristics and carbon vulnerability. Earth-Science Reviews, 172: 75-86. DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.07.007.

Verpaelst, M., Fortier, D., Kanevskiy, M., Paquette, M., Shur, Y., 2017. Syngenetic dynamic of permafrost of a polar desert solifluction lobe, Ward Hunt Island, Nunavut. Arctic Science, 3(2): 301-319. DOI: 10.1139/AS-2016-0018.

Beardsell, A., Gauthier, G., Fortier, D., Therrien, J.-F., Bêty, J., 2016. Vulnérabilité des nids d’un rapace de l’Arctique: à la rencontre de l’écologie et de la géomorphologie. Colloque du CEN 2016, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada.

Benkert, B.E., Kennedy, K., Fortier, D., Lewkowicz, A., Roy, L.-P., de Grandpré, I., Grandmont, K., Drukis, S., Colpron, M., Light, E., Williams, T., 2016. Old Crow landscape hazards: Geoscience mapping for climate change adaptation planning. Rapport préparé pour Yukon College. 136 pages.

Bouchard, F., Fortier, D., Veillette, A., Laurion, I., 2016. Sonar-GPS, caméra submersible, géo-radar et scanner médical: La technologie au service des études de lacs en zone de pergélisol dans l’Arctique canadien. Forum environnement 2016 - Du savoir à l'action. Montréal, Québec, Canada. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1494.1846.

Davesne, G., Fortier, D., 2016. Régime thermique du pergélisol alpin au sommet du mont Jacques-Cartier (Gaspésie, Québec, Canada): 37 ans de données montrant une tendance au réchauffement. Colloque du CEN 2016, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada.

Fortier, D., 2016. La dégradation du pergélisol sous un angle différent: les flux latéraux d'énergie et de matière au sein des biogéosystèmes périglaciaires: changement de paradigme? Les conférences Boréas, UQAR. Rimouski, Québec, Canada.

Fortier, D., 2016. La réponse transitoire des biogéosystèmes périglaciaires au changement climatique – Le grand dérangement. Les conférences Boréas, UQAR. Rimouski, Québec, Canada.

Fortier, D., de Grandpré, I., Cavayas, F., Deshaies, A., Dawson, J., Grandmont, K., Lewkowicz, A., Loranger, B., Talbot, J., Piraux, O., Wolfe, M., 2016. Mapping techniques and characterization of ice wedges. Rapport préparé pour Transports Canada. 146 pages.

Fortier, D., Veuille, S., Sliger, M., Verpaelst, M., Davesne, G., Charbonneau, S., Grandmont, K., 2016. Évaluation des impacts de l’écoulement de surface et de l’écoulement souterrain sur la degradation du pergélisol et la stabilité des infrastructures routières. Rapport préparé pour Transports Canada. 116 pages.

Godin, E., Fortier, D., Lévesque, E., 2016. Nonlinear thermal and moisture response of ice-wedge polygons to permafrost disturbance increases heterogeneity of high Arctic wetland. Biogeosciences, 13(5): 1439-1452. DOI: 10.5194/bg-13-1439-2016.

Kanevskiy, M., Shur, Y., Strauss, J., Jorgenson, T., Fortier, D., Stephani, E., Vasiliev, A., 2016. Patterns and rates of riverbank erosion involving ice-rich permafrost (yedoma) in northern Alaska. Geomorphology, 253: 370-384. DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.10.023.

Perreault, N., Lévesque, E., Fortier, D., Lamarque, L., 2016. Thermo-erosion gullies boost the transition from wet to mesic tundra vegetation. Biogeosciences, 13(4): 1237-1253. DOI: 10.5194/bg-13-1237-2016.

Veillette, A., Fortier, D., 2016. Stabilisation et modification à long terme du pergélisol: implications pour l’évolution du paysage périglaciaire du Haut Arctique, Île Bylot, Nunavut. Colloque du CEN 2016, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada.