The Big Picture
Our research interests are diverse, but our core focus is on using isotopic measurements of organic materials and trace gases to understand carbon-cycle processes and how they are affected by climate change and anthropogenic activities. Most of our work centers around collecting samples in key field sites and analyzing them in our lab and those of our collaborators, but we also do work on incubation experiments and analyzing large datasets.
Projects

Analysis of the distribution, variability, and source apportionment of greenhouse gases in Greater Montreal
Funding: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Collaborators: Yi Huang, Djordje Romanic, John Gyakum, John Stix (McGill); Felix Vogel, Sebastien Ars (ECCC); Ian Strachan (Queens)
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Funding: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Collaborators: Yi Huang, Djordje Romanic, John Gyakum, John Stix (McGill); Felix Vogel, Sebastien Ars (ECCC); Ian Strachan (Queens)
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The role of soil microbial processes in aquatic greenhouse gas emissions in Eastern Canadian permafrost landscapes
Funding: FRQNT, NSERC, PCSP, Wares Science Innovation Prospector's Fund
Collaborators: Cynthia Kallenbach (McGill); Isabelle Laurion, Jérôme Comte (INRS); Roxane Maranger (U. Montréal); Melissa Lafrèniere (Queens)
Funding: FRQNT, NSERC, PCSP, Wares Science Innovation Prospector's Fund
Collaborators: Cynthia Kallenbach (McGill); Isabelle Laurion, Jérôme Comte (INRS); Roxane Maranger (U. Montréal); Melissa Lafrèniere (Queens)

Multiproxy studies of Holocene carbon-cycle and climate change in the Labrador Sea and Gulf of St. Lawrence
Funding: FRQNT (Geotop Research Centre), NSERC
Collaborators: Anne de Vernal (UQAM); Alfonso Mucci (McGill); Yves Gélinas (Concordia); Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz (Aarhus U.)
Funding: FRQNT (Geotop Research Centre), NSERC
Collaborators: Anne de Vernal (UQAM); Alfonso Mucci (McGill); Yves Gélinas (Concordia); Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz (Aarhus U.)

LIBRE: Lake Izabal Basin Research Endeavour
A developing deep drilling project with the potential to explore millions of years of environmental and seismic history in the largest lake in Guatemala; our group is focused on studying linked climate and carbon-cycle change in this system
Funding: International Continental Drilling Program (pending); NSERC; NSF
Collaborators: Jonathan Obrist-Farner (Missouri Science and Technology); and many others
A developing deep drilling project with the potential to explore millions of years of environmental and seismic history in the largest lake in Guatemala; our group is focused on studying linked climate and carbon-cycle change in this system
Funding: International Continental Drilling Program (pending); NSERC; NSF
Collaborators: Jonathan Obrist-Farner (Missouri Science and Technology); and many others

Innovative approaches to understanding methane formation and emission in Canadian permafrost active layer soils
Funding: GSC; NSERC
Collaborators: Josué Jautzy, Jason Ahad (GSC)
Funding: GSC; NSERC
Collaborators: Josué Jautzy, Jason Ahad (GSC)

Combined radiocarbon and stable carbon isotopes in tree rings to quantify past volcanic CO2 emissions
Funding: FRQNT (Geotop Research Centre)
Collaborators: John Stix (McGill); Étienne Boucher (UQAM)
Funding: FRQNT (Geotop Research Centre)
Collaborators: John Stix (McGill); Étienne Boucher (UQAM)