Thierry Laurent St-Pierre
Ph.D. — glaciology, remote sensing and geospatial science
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières · RIVE and CEN research centres · supervisor: Christophe Kinnard
I study how wildfire smoke darkens the glaciers of western North America and speeds up their melt. I combine satellite remote sensing, smoke simulations from Environment and Climate Change Canada, and field measurements.
I also build open-source software for research, including Atelier, a scientific workspace for macOS.
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Interactive map →
An atlas of glacier albedo and wildfire smoke, region by region, since 2002.
Twenty-two summers of smoke →
Wildfire smoke over North America, hour by hour, from 2002 to 2023.
TopoSCALE validation →
ERA5 climate downscaled to glaciers, compared against twenty weather stations.
Open-source software →
Atelier, Ragdoc, Corpuscribe, Scholar MCP and the tools behind my processing pipeline.