Jean-François Bibeault, Ph.D.
Current research and/or projects
Water quality indicators development and applications, effective management of horizontal programs involving improved integration from field data collection, to data management QA/QC, to water quality analysis and reporting, and to support policy analysis
- Canadian Water quality index network representativity, connection with hydrometric network, land-use data and population density (with Statistics Canada)
- Pilot on surface waters integrated monitoring reporting (physical-chemistry, CABIN and real-time information - involving province of New Brunswick)
- History of water quality indices and index comparability Canada-US (with A. Lumb and T.C. Sharma)
- Improving funcstions of the WQI calculator tool (work done in collaboration with CIOB and with the province of New Foundland/Labrador)
Professional activities / interests
New integrated analytical tools development
Research, monitoring and modelization projects and programs integration
Multi-disciplinary team development
Education and awards
Head fo the Public Service Award, Excellence dans la prestation de services, December 1998
Certificates of appreciation - IJC-International Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Study Board (2002; 2005)
Ph.D. Université de Montréal, with Honours. Faculté d'aménagement. Department of international affairs (Quebec)-France exchange scolarship (École nationale des Ponts et Chaussée, LATTS, Paris VIII), FCAR scholarship (3 years), Faculté des études supérieures scholarship (one year), Université de Montréal. 2000
M. Sc. Université du Québec à Montréal, with Honours, financial support from UQAM research group (GRAIGE) and City of Montreal, 1991
Key publications
Environment Canada. 2009. Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators, 2008 and 2007 editions, Water quality index, Data sources and Methods report. March 2009.
Research facility
Expertise
Affiliations
Management team - St. Lawrence Centre
Management network - Atlantic region