Nigel Roulet - Chair
Professor
Department of Geography
McGill University
Canada
Biography
I have a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in biology and physical geography from Trent University (1979, 1981) and a PhD in Geography, specializing in permafrost hydrology from McMaster University (1985). I spent the first nine years of my academic career in the Department of Geography at York University in Toronto, and moved to the Department of Geography at McGill University in 1994. While at McGill University I have served as Director of the Centre for Climate and Global Change Research (1996-2002) and the McGill School of Environment (2003-2008).
Research Interest
Hydrologic, climatic, & ecosystems interaction in controlling the exchange of mass & energy at the earth's surface
Publications
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Lai, D.Y.F., Roulet, N.T., Humphreys, E.R., Moore, T.R., and Dalva, M. The effect of atmospheric turbulence and chamber deployment period on autochamber CO2 and CH4 flux measurements in an ombrotrophic peatland. Biogeoscience 9: 3305–3322, 2012.
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Segura, C., James, A.L., Lazzati, D. and Roulet, N.T. Scaling relationships for event water contributions and transit times in small-forested catchments in Eastern Quebec, Water Resour. Res., 48, 7 doi:10.1029/2012WR011890, 2012.
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Wu, J., Roulet, N.T.,Nilsson, M., Lafleur, P. and Humphreys, E.. Simulating the carbon cycling of northern peatlands using a land surface scheme coupled to a wetland carbon model (CLASS3W-MWM). Atmosphere - Ocean 50:487-506, 2012.
