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

M.Sc. in environmental sciences, fast-tracked to the Ph.D.

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

B.Sc. in environmental geography

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

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

Funding and awards

Master's research scholarship (B1X) Awarded

Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (FRQNT) · April 2026

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

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada · 2025-09 → 2026-08

Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA), three internships Awarded

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Skills

Languages

PythonJuliaRSQL (DuckDB)BashLaTeX

Remote sensing and GIS

Google Earth EngineMODISSentinel-2RGI 7QGIS / GDAL

Analysis and computing

PyMCMixedModels.jlTopoSCALEERA5OGGMSLURMDocker