Our Students and Postdoctoral Fellows and Where they are Today

POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS

• Dr. Gwenaella Chaillou, Ph.D. Université Bordeaux I, Département de géologie et océnographie. (2004 - present)
• Dr. Philippe MARTINEZ
  Maître de conférence, Université Bordeaux I, Département de géologie et océnographie.
• Dr. Pierre ANSCHUTZ
  Maître de conférence, Université Bordeaux I, Département de géologie et océnographie.
• Dr. Shaojun ZHONG
  After holding a faculty position in the Département de Géologie et Génie Géologique, Université Laval, he and his family moved to China.
• Dr. Takeshi ARAKAKI
  Research professional, University of Rhyukus, Japan
• Dr. Pierpaolo ZUDDAS
  Maitre de Conférence, Laboratoire de géochimie des Eaux et IPGP, Université de Paris VII, Place Jussieu, Paris
• Dr. Marion GEHLEN
  Staff researcher, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Unité Mixte de Recherche CEA-CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

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COMPLETED GRADUATE THESES

• OUELLET, ANDRE. (1978) Géochimie du soufre dans des sédiments de l'estuaire du Saint-Laurent et du Fjord du Saguenay. M.Sc. thesis, Université du Québec à Rimouski.
  *Professor, Rimouski Junior College.
• GENDRON, ANDREE (1983) M. Sc. thesis, Université du Québec à Rimouski. *Head, Analytical Services, Quebec Department of Agriculture and Fisheries
• ZHONG S. (1988) An experimental investigation of "calcite and aragonite precipitation rates in seawater as a function of salinity" and its applications to some geological problems. M.Sc. Thesis, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 122p.
• BOOIJ, KEES (1989) Ph.D. thesis, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
  *Research Scientist, Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
• VALE, CARLOS (1986) Ph.D. thesis, Institut Portuguais des Sciences de la Mer.
  *Senior Scientist, IPIMAR, Lisbon, Portugal
• ZHONG S. (1993) Precipitation kinetics and partitioning of rare earth elements (REE) between calcite and seawater. Ph.D. Thesis, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 163p.
  *After holding a faculty position in the Département de Géologie et Génie Géologique, Université Laval, he and his family moved to China. He now holds a faculty position in the Chinese Academy of Science Institute of Oceanology, Quindao.
• GOBEIL, CHARLES (1993) "Dynamique de métaux en trace dans les sédiments marins côtiers". Ph.D. thesis, Université du Québec à Rimouski. *Professor, Université du Québec, INRS-ETE, Québec.
• HARTLEY, G. (1994) The influence of the partial pressure of carbon dioxide and substrate on the composition and mineralogy of carbonate overgrowths precipitated from seawater. M.Sc. thesis, McGill University, 105 pp.
  *A stock broker in Toronto.
• DMYTRIW, R. (1994) The partitioning of mercury in the solid components of forest soils and flooded forest soils in a hydroelectric reservoir, Québec. M.Sc. thesis, McGill University, 87 pp.
  *President of Strate Environnement, an environmental consulting firm in Montreal
• MONTGOMERY, S. (1994) Total dissolved mercury in the water column and interstitial waters of aquatic systems and hydroelectric reservoirs of northern Québec (Canada). M.Sc. thesis, McGill University, 86 pp.
  *After completing a Ph.D. at UQAM, Sheila moved to the Northwest Territories where she supervises Natural Resources Management
• GAGNON, C. (1994) Comportement diagénétique du mercure anthropique et du soufre enfouis dans les sédiments du Fjord du Saguenay. Ph.D. thesis, Université du Québec à Rimouski, 192 pp.
  *Senior researcher and project manager at Centre Saint-Laurent, Environment Canada in Montreal
• BOIRIDY, M. (1996) Potential chemical remediation of mercury in recently impounded reservoirs. M.Sc. thesis, McGill University, 133 pp.
  *Responsible of a youth science-integration program in South Africa
• RICHARD, L-F. (1997) Comparaison des comportements géochimiques du phosphore et de l'arsenic dans le fjord du Saguenay et l'estuaire du Sr-Laurent. M.Sc. thesis, Université du Québec à Montréal, 57 pp.
  (co-supervisor: Dr. Marc Lucotte/UQAM-GEOTOP)
  *Junior researcher at Centre Saint-Laurent, Environment Canada in Montreal
• BONO A. (1997) Partitioning of mercury between the various solid components of the sediments of the Saguenay Fjord. M.Sc. thesis, McGill University, 183 pp.
  *Network manager at the Monterey Bay Credit Union, California
• SAULNIER I. (1997) Trace metal remobilization following the resuspension of Saguenay Fjord sediments. M.Sc. thesis, McGill University, 157 pp.
  *Consultant and project supervisor at Centre Saint-Laurent, Environment Canada in Montreal
• LEFRANÇOIS, LUCIE (1998) Distribution à haute résolution de l'oxygène, du manganeèse, du fer, des sulfures et de l'iodure dans l'eau interstitielle des sédiments marins et lacustres. M.Sc. thesis, Université du Québec à Rimouski. 142 pp. Junior officer, the Canadian Coast Guard
• FITZPATRICK A. (1999) Adsorption of arsenate and phosphate on gibbsite from artificial seawater. M.Sc. thesis, McGill University, 110 pp.
  *Ph.D. candidate, Department of Geology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
• ZHANG D. (1999) Fluxes of short-lived radioisotopes in the marginal marine basins of Eastern Canada. Ph.D. thesis, Université du Québec à Montréal, 191 pp. (co-supervisor: Dr. Claude Hillaire-Marcel/UQAM-GEOTOP)
  *Present whereabouts unknown
• PINHEIRO F. (1999) Effects of forest fires and clear-cutting on mercury loading to boreal lakes. M.Sc. thesis, McGill University, 119 pp.
  *Ph.D. candidate, Biology Department, University of New Orleans
• LEDUC J. (2000) Distribution of benthic foraminiferal populations in surface sediments of he Saguenay Fjord before and after the 1996 flood. M.Sc. thesis, Université du Québec à Montréal, 60 pp. (co-supervision with Dr. A. deVernal/GEOTOP-UQAM).
  *Research assistant, GEOTOP, UQAM
• DEFLANDRE, BRUNO (2000) Hétérogénéité biogéochimique des sédiments marins côtiers: des microenvironnements sédimentaires aux sédiments du Fjord du Saguenay. Ph.D. thesis, Université du Québec à Rimouski. Co-supervision with Dr. Jean-Pierre Gagné, ISMER-UQAR). *Maitre de Conférence, Laboratoire de géochimie des Eaux et IPGP, Université de Paris VII, Place Jussieu, Paris
• GAO Y. (2001) Surface electrical properties of goethite and adsorption of phosphate and arsenate on iron oxyhydroxides in high ionic strength solutions. Ph.D. thesis, McGill University, 271 pp.
  *Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Environmental Studies, Rice University, Houston, Texas
• TOM DAVIS (2002): The structure and conformation of alginates in Sargassum brown algae: Relation to adsorption of trace metals and bioremediation potential. Ph.D.(co-supervision with Dr. B. Volesky/McGill)
  *Presently Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wageningen, The Netherlands
• SHAILY RAHMAN (2003) Oxidation of arsenite by dissolved oxygen, manganes-oxides, and iron-oxides. M. Sc. thesis, McGill University, 101 pp. *Presently with Radioactive Waste Management Associates, New York City, NY.

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COMPLETED UNGRADUATE THESES

• DOIG F. (1992) The evolution of mercury and lead concentrations in the sediments of Lusignan Lake throughout the Holocene. B.Sc. Thesis, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 24 pp.
  *Obtained a M.Sc. in hydrogeology from the Department of Geology, University of Toronto. Present whereabouts unknown
• BOIRIDY M. (1993) Potential chemical attenuation procedures of mercury remobilization from an inundated soils. B.Sc. Thesis, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
  *Responsible of a youth science-integration program in South Africa
• FAGNAN N. (1993) The reactivity of Saguenay fjord sediments: Trace metal (Hg, As) remobilization following exposure to oxygenated waters. B.Sc. Thesis, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
  *Obtained a M.Sc. in hydrogeology from the Département de Géologie et Génie Géologique, Université Laval. Present whereabouts unknown
• WEARY G. (1994) The vertical distribution of mercury and lead in sediments of Lac De La Blache near Manicouagan, Quebec. B.Sc. Thesis, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 30pp.
  *Present whereabouts unknown
• HARRIS S. (1996) Adsorption of arsenic and phosphate on oxic sediments of the Saguenay Fjord. B.Sc. Thesis, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 50 pp.
  *Ph.D. candidate, Department of Oceanography, University of Victoria, BC.
• ESPINOSA M. (1996) Effect of elemental iron on the adsorption and methylation of mercury in an inundated soil from a hydroelectric reservoir. B.Sc. Thesis, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 42 pp.
  *Present whereabouts unknown
• SHAW A. (1996) The diagenetic phosphorus cycle in marine sediments and the importance of adsorption onto goethite (a-FeOOH) surface. B.Sc. Thesis, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 45 pp.
  *Ph.D. candidate, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, San Diego, California.
• CRANE G. (1998) The reactivity of gibbsite in seawater. McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 45 pp.
  *Geologist, Pan Canadian Petroleum
• SHEK Y. (1999) The determination of physical mixing using black carbon as a physical tracer, Saguenay Fjord, Quebec, Canada. McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 46pp.
  *M.Sc. candidate, Environmental Health, University of Toronto
• RINGUET S. (2000) Characterisation of reactive iron and manganese in the sediments of the Saguenay Fjord and their diagenetic evolution following the flash floods of 1996. McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 50pp.
  *M.Sc. candidate, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Hawaii

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THESES IN PROGRESS

• Anne Friis (2001) The effect of EDTA, Bacillus subtilis on calcite dissolution rates and crystal surface features imaged by atomic force microscopy. In progress.
• Selma Alpay (Ph.D.): The formation of authigenic particles and their trace metal scavenging efficiency in a stratified estuary, Saguenay Fjord, Quebec, Canada.
  (co-supervision with Dr. C. Hillaire-Marcel/GEOTOP-UQAM)
  *Program (MITE ­ Metals in the Environment) manager, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
• Yung-Ching Chien (M.Sc.): Biomineralization and exobiology.
  (co-supervision with Dr. H. Vali/McGill)
• Mélanie Desrosiers (Ph.D./Biologie-UQAM): Accumulation de methyl-mercure dans le périphyton de lacs des forets boréales du Québec.
  (co-supervision with Dr. D. Planas/GEOTOP-UQAM)
• Sang-Tae Kim (Ph.D): Fundamentals of oxygen and carbon isotopic fractionation in the carbonate system.
  (co-supervision with Dr. C. Hillaire-Marcel/GEOTOP-UQAM)
  *Temporarily withdrawn from the program
• Alain Garand (M.Sc.): The influence of fluoride on the adsorption properties of gibbsite in seawater.
• Adrian Villegas (Ph.D.): Surface electrical properties and formation of mixed carbonate minerals.
• Patrick Poulin (M.Sc.) Thorium isotopes and the flux of metals to the sediments in the Saguenay Fjord.
  (co-supervision with Dr. C. Hillaire-Marcel/GEOTOP-UQAM)
• Christine Desjardins (M.Sc.) Les écailles de poissons comme indicateur de pollution par le mercure. Co-supervision with Dr. Charles Gobeil, INRS-ETE