Dr. Pascale Biron, Professor
Pascale Biron received a PhD in physical geography from Université de Montréal in 1995 and joined Concordia’s Department of Geography, Planning and Environment in 1998. Dr. Biron’s expertise is in hydrogeomorphology and her research interests include river restoration for fish habitat, numerical modelling of river processes, impacts of human interventions and climate change on rivers, the development of hydrogeomorphological approaches in river management and geographical information systems (GIS). She has published over fifty refereed papers and chapters in the above research areas in top-tier journals in the fields of fluvial geomorphology, river engineering and fish biology. Dr. Biron is funded by NSERC and is also involved with several provincial and federal ministries (Public Safety, Environment, Transportation) in improving river management approaches in Quebec. She works in collaboration with several professors in Quebec universities and abroad in the fields of geography, biology and environmental engineering. She is a member of the GRIL FRQNT Research Group.
Professional affiliations
- Canadian Geomorphology Research Group
- Canadian Association of Geographers
- American Geophysical Union
- Member of CIRSA (Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche sur le Saumon Atlantique)
- Member of GRIL (Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitare en Limnologie et en environnement aquatique)
