Jesse Vermaire
Associate Professor
Geography and Environmental Studies
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
I am interested in how environmental change, particularly land-use and climate change are impacting freshwater ecosystems. My research focuses on three broad areas: 1) impacts of climate warming and nutrient enrichment on lakes and streams, 2) ecosystem resilience, regime shifts, and recovery in freshwater systems and 3) the importance of extreme events (e.g. droughts, storm surges, permafrost slumps) in altering aquatic ecosystems. Because changes to the environment often occur over large areas and at timescales of decades or longer our lab employs a variety of techniques including lake survey studies, paleolimnological techniques, and the analysis of long-term datasets to meet our research objectives.
Research Interest
Aquatic ecology, limnology, paleolimnology, paleoecology, watershed conservation, ecosystem ecology, climate change, eutrophication
Publications
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Vermaire, J.C., Pisaric, M.F.J., Thienpont, J.R., Courtney Mustaphi, C., Kokelj, S.V., Smol, J.P. 2013. Arctic climate warming and sea ice declines lead to increased storm surge activity. Geophysical Research Letters
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Vermaire, J.C., Greffard, M.-H., Saulnier-Talbot, E., and Gregory-Eaves, I. 2013 Loss of submerged macrophyte cover alters diatom and chironomid assemblages in a shallow lake ecosystem. Journal of Paleolimnology
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Upiter*, L.M., Vermaire, J.C., Patterson, R.T., Crann, C., Galloway, J.M., Macumber, A.L., Neville, L.A., Swindles, G.T., Falck, H., Roe, H.M., Pisaric, MFJ. A mid- to late Holocene chironomid-inferred temperature reconstruction for the eastern Northwest Territories, Canada. Submitted Sept. 2012 to Journal of Paleolimnology.
