Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques received a PhD in Biology, specialty in environmental science from Queen's University in 2007 and joined Concordia University's Department of Geography, Planning and Environment in 2017. She holds masters degrees in botany and mathematics. After her doctorate, she spent nine years as a Research Associate at the Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative, University of Regina. Her expertise is in paleoclimatology, climatology and hydrology. Her research is funded by NSERC. She collaboratives with a broad spectrum of colleagues and students, both in Quebec and abroad, who have expertise in the environmental sciences and studies, climatology, climate modelling, hydrology, botany, geology, statistics, aquatic sciences and Indigenous Studies.
Education
MA Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
MSc Botany, University of Toronto
PhD Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
Courses
GEOG 298/264 Programming for the Environmental Sciences
GEOG 378 The Climate System
GEOG 398 AA Special Topics in Geography: Environmental History of the Americas
GEOG 498/476 Indigenous and Environmental History of the Americas since 1492
GEOG 498 Directed Reading Course in Quebec Paleoenvironmental Science
HENV 610 Advanced Quantitative Research Methods
HENV 625 Directed Studies An Introduction to Scientific Programming Using Matlab
Present student supervision
Alexandre Pace (PhD student, January 2021-present), co-supervised with Prof. D. Arseneault, UQAR, “Tree-ring-based climate reconstructions of southern Québec”
Fateme Salemi (PhD student, September 2021-present), co-supervised with Prof. M. Peros, Bishop’s University, "Paleo-floods in the Ottawa River basin"
Duane Noel (Research Assistant, October 2021-present), “The Influence of the Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation and the North Atlantic Oscillation on Flood Frequency in eastern Canada”
Antoine Lachance (MSc student, July 2020-present), co-supervised with Prof. M. Peros, Bishop’s University, “Paleotempestology in the Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Québec”
Megan Tremblay (undergraduate honour’s BSc student, August 2021-present), "Forest fire reconstruction for Albany Pine Bush, New York"
Sophie McCafferty (undergraduate honour’s BSc student at Bishop’s University, summer 2021-present), co-supervised with Prof. M. Peros, “Pollen analysis of a peat bog on the Magdalen Islands”
Charlotte Whyte (summer undergraduate research assistant, 2021), Concordia Undergraduate Student Research Fellow, “Forest fire reconstruction for Scotstown Bog, Québec for three millennia after Deglaciation”
Past student supervision
Marc-Olivier Brault (post doctoral fellow June 2018-May 2019) “Hydroclimate projections for the Athabasca River Valley, Canada, using CORDEX”
Duane Noel (MSc September 2019-July 2021) “The Influence of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation on discharge variability on the western North American margin”
Alexandre Pace (M.Sc. May 2018-July 2020) “A 211-year river reconstruction of the Chic-Choc and McGerrigle Mountains of the Gaspésie from tree-rings”
Claire O'Neill-Sanger (M.Sc. May 2018-July 2020) "A 2300-year reconstruction of environmental change from Mont-Orford National Park, southeastern Québec, using high-resolution pollen, charcoal and X-ray fluorescence records”
Taline Kalindjian (M.Env. September 2017- May 2018) “Understanding the public’s perception towards nuclear wastes by assessing public participation in environmental assessment: a dual case study of radioactive waste management in Canada”
Sabrina Mruczek (undergraduate honour’s BSc student, September 2020-May 2021) “Paleo-flood records from the Eastern Townships, Québec”
Charlotte Whyte (undergraduate honour’s BSc student, August 2020-May 2021) “Forest fire reconstruction for Scotstown Bog, Québec for three millennia after Deglaciation”
Jessica Lapenna (undergraduate honour’s BSc student at Bishop’s University, September 2020-May 2021), co-supervised with Prof. M. Peros, “
Common Era fire history of two peat lands on the Magdalen islands using micro charcoal analysis”
Kayden Schwartz (Undergraduate Honour's B.Sc.) "Fire frequencies at Mont Orford, Eastern Townships, Québec, over the last two millennia”
Kayden Schwartz (summer undergraduate research assistant 2020) Concordia Undergraduate Student Research Fellow
Sabrina Mruczek (undergraduate summer research student, June 2020-August 2021), co-supervised with Prof. M. Peros, Bishop’s University, “Paleo-flood records from the Eastern Townships, Québec”
Duane Noel (NSERC undergraduate research assistant May 2018-August 2018, and May 2019-August 2019 and Undergraduate Honour's B.Sc.) "Effects of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation on flood maxima and frequency on the North American West Coast"
Zachary Masson (undergraduate research assistant Fall 2018-winter 2019)
Alexandre Pace (CUSRA undergraduate research assistant May 2017-May 2018)
Anna Michetti (summer undergraduate research assistant 2017)