Study of fundamental lightdriven processes in the ocean (e.g. photosynthesis, photo-oxidation), the optical characterization of various substances found in seawater, the description and understanding of the variations in ocean biomass production, the monitoring of light driven carbon fluxes and biomass production from space using ocean colour remote sensing, the development of the related remote sensing algorithms, and the modelling of light-driven processes in the ocean and ecosystem interactions.

Ecology, physiology and behaviour of marine mammals, evolution of life-history strategies, evolutionary ecology and conservation biology of marine mammal populations.

Louis
Bernatchez

Molecular, behavioural and evolutionary ecology; conservation biology; functional genomics; bioinformatics; aquaculture.

Julian J.
Dodson

Evolutionary ecology of fishes, evolution of reproductive strategies, ecology of early life-history stages, conservation of aquatic resources.

Louis
Fortier

Marine zooplankton ecology. Population dynamics of copepods. Role of zooplankton in the vertical and trophic fluxes of biogenic carbon. Feeding, growth, and survival of larval and juvenile fish, based on otolith analysis. Climate variability and the larval ecology of Arctic cod, Atlantic cod and Atlantic mackerel. Oceanography of ice-covered seas. Modeling the response of arctic marine ecosystems to variations in climate.

Ladd E.
Johnson

Écologie des algues marines benthiques; interactions entre les plantes et les animaux; modèles biophysiques climatiques; écologie des espèces introduites aquatiques.

Maurice
Levasseur

Marine production of dimethylsulfide (DMS) and impacts on climate: planktonic control of DMS production in the oceans and development of coupled ocean-atmosphere models of DMS emissions. Ecophysiology of harmul algae: interactions between environmental conditions and harmful blooms, and development of bio-physical models for harmful algal populations.

Connie
Lovejoy

Current research is focused on Arctic marine microbes, especially planktonic microorganisms (phytoplankton and other protists, archaea and bacteria). These organisms are responsible for global carbon and mineral cycling on a planetary scale. My laboratory addresses such questions as: How many micro-organisms are there in the water column? What is their genetic and metabolic diversity? What factors determine growth and mortality?

Jean-Éric
Tremblay

Photosynthetic and nutritive ecophysiology of marine phytoplankton. Functional roles of phytoplankton in organic matter fluxes, food webs and the air-sea exchange of CO2. Biogeochemical cycles of carbon and essential elements in the ocean. Oceanography of polar and temperate seas.