stpierre.t / albedo

Curriculum vitae

Education

Custom Ph.D. in glaciology, remote sensing and geospatial science

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières — program 1428 · RIVE and CEN centres · supervisor: Christophe Kinnard

[à compléter] — master's status: completed with thesis, or fast-tracked to the Ph.D.

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

[à compléter] — bachelor's degree, field

[à compléter] — institution

Research experience

Graduate researcher

UQTR — Christophe Kinnard lab (RIVE / CEN)

  • Reconstructing glacier albedo series from MODIS imagery on Google Earth Engine.
  • Isolating the wildfire contribution using Environment and Climate Change Canada's RAQDPS-FireWork system.
  • Building the processing pipeline: Python, Julia, R, DuckDB, HPC computing.

Communications and publications

In preparationAttributing glacier albedo decline to wildfire in western North America, 2002–2023.

St-Pierre, T. L., Kinnard, C. — target: The Cryosphere

PosterAlbedo trends of western North American glaciers.

Centre d'études nordiques annual meeting · February 2026

SeminarResearch proposal.

UQTR · March 2026

Skills

Languages

PythonJuliaRSQL (DuckDB)BashLaTeX

Remote sensing and GIS

Google Earth EngineMODISSentinel-2RGI 7QGIS / GDAL

Analysis and computing

PyMCMixedModels.jlTopoSCALEERA5OGGMSLURMDocker

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Started my Ph.D. in glaciology, remote sensing and geospatial science at UQTR, supervised by Christophe Kinnard.

FundingAwarded the FRQNT B1X master's research scholarship.

SeminarResearch proposal seminar, UQTR.

PosterAlbedo trends of western North American glaciers — Centre d'études nordiques annual meeting.

FundingNSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship — Master's (CGS-M).