Laurent de Rham
Compiling and analysing data on river ice, lake ice and water quality to study how climate change impacts freshwater ice in Canada. Compiling river bathymetry data in the Mackenzie River basin for the Freshwater Action Plan.
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Education and awards
R. (Larry) Gerard Medal. 2023. Author of paper deemed to be best amongst those presented at the previous Workshop on the Hydraulics of Ice Covered Rivers. For paper Dibike, Y., Hartmann, J., de Rham, L., Beltaos, S., Peters, D.L., Bonsal., B.R. 2021. Exploratory Data Analysis of the Canadian River Ice Database Variables and their Correlations with Seasonal Temperature. 21st Workshop on the Hydraulics of Ice Covered Rivers. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, August 29- September 1 2021, CGU HS Committee on River Ice Processes and the Environment.
Excellence in Technical Support. 2023. Watershed Hydrology and Ecology Research Division Recognitions Award. For outstanding contribution to the Canadian River Ice Database.
Key publications
de Rham, L., Dibike, Y., Beltaos, S., Peters, D.L., Bonsal., B.R., Hartmann, J., 2021. A Compilation of Station Metadata to Inform the Provenance of Water Level Records in the Canadian River Ice Database. . 21st Workshop on the Hydraulics of Ice Covered Rivers. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, August 29- September 1 2021, CGU HS Committee on River Ice Processes and the Environment
de Rham, L., Dibike, Y., Beltaos, S., Peters, D., Bonsal, B., Prowse, T. 2020. A Canadian River Ice Database from the National Hydrometric Program Archives. Earth Systems Science Data. 12: 1835-1860. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1835-2020
Dibike Y, Prowse T, Bonsal B, de Rham L, Saloranta T. 2012. Simulation of North America lake-ice cover characteristics under contemporary and future climate conditions. International Journal of Climatology. doi: 10.1002/joc.2300
de Rham LP. Prowse TD, Beltaos S, Lacroix MP. 2008. Assessment of annual high-water events for the Mackenzie River basin, Canada. Hydrological Processes 22: 3864-3880.
de Rham LP, Prowse TD, Bonsal BR. 2008. Temporal variations in river-ice break-up over the Mackenzie River Basin, Canada. Journal of Hydrology 349: 441-454
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Professional Geoscientist (P.Geo.) - Since 2013. Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia