Stéphane Plourde

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Stéphane Plourde

Research Scientist
Ocean Sciences Branch
Regional Science Branch

Research Interests

• Ecology and population dynamics of sub-arctic and arctic zooplankton.
• Reproductive and feeding biology of copepods.
• Effects of climate variability on secondary production.
• Interaction between zooplankton life cycle and circulation: observations and coupled biological-physical models.
• Secondary production and biology of fish recruitment.
• Evolution of sub-populations and sub-species in zooplankton.
• Studies of the distribution of zooplankton with the Video Plankton Recorder (VPR).

Education

Ph. D. Biology (2002)

Université Laval, Department of biology, Québec (Qc), Canada.
Title: Biological and physical factors involved in the control of the population dynamics of Calanus finmarchicus and C. hyperboreus in the lower St. Lawrence estuary, Canada.

M. Sc. Biology (1992)

Université Laval, Department of biology, Québec (Qc), Canada.
Title: Reproduction of the marine copepod Calanus finmarchicus and its relation to the spring phytoplankton bloom in the lower St. Lawrence estuary, Canada.

B. Sc. Biology (1989)

Université du Québec à Rimouski, Department of biology, Rimouski (Qc), Canada.

Work

Since June 2003: Scientist, secondary production at Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Institute Maurice-Lamontagne, Mont-Joli (Qc), Canada.

March 2002/June 2003: Postdoctoral fellow in the Shelf Basin Interaction program (SBI), USA. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Woods Hole (MA), USA.

August 2001/February 2002: Biologist (BI-2) at Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Institute Maurice-Lamontagne, Mont-Joli (Qc), Canada.

September 1992/August 1996: Research assistant Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics program, USA (US GLOBEC). Université du Québec à Rimouski, Oceanography department, Rimouski (Qc), Canada.

Publications

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