Shani Rousseau

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Acoustician

Fisheries acoustics biologist with the Pelagic fish section for the Gulf of St. Lawrence region. 

Contribute to the improvement of fish stock assessments through the use of fisheries acoustics.

Key publications

Rousseau, S., Gauthier, S., Neville, C., Johnson, S.C. and Trudel, M., 2022. Acoustic Classification of Juvenile Pacific Salmon (Oncorhynchus spp) and Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasii) Schools Using Random Forests. Front. Mar. Sci., 9:857645. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.857645

Rousseau, S., Gauthier, S., Johnson, S., Neville, C., and Trudel, M., 2020. A multi-frequency acoustic method to estimate mean standard length of juvenile salmon in the Discovery Islands, British Columbia. Fisheries Research, 227:105536.

Lavoie, D., Lambert, N., Rousseau, S., Dumas, J., Chassé, J., Long, Z., Perrie, W., Starr, M., Brickman, D., and Azetsu-Scott, K., 2020. Projections of future physical and biochemical conditions in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, on the Scotian Shelf and in the Gulf of Maine using a regional climate model. Can. Tech. Rep. Hydrogr. Ocean Sci. 334: xiii + 102 p.

Rousseau, S., Gauthier, S., Johnson, S., Neville, C. and Trudel M., 2018. Juvenile salmon acoustic monitoring in the Discovery Islands, British
Columbia. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 3277: viii + 31 p.

Rousseau, S., Gauthier, S., Johnson, S., Neville, C., and Trudel, M., 2017. Use of inverted echosounders to monitor the migration timing and abundance of juvenile salmon in the Discovery Islands, British Columbia. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 3227: viii + 33 p.

Geoffroy M., Rousseau, S., Knudsen, F., and Fortier, L., 2015. Target strengths and echotraces of whales and seals in the Canadian Beaufort Sea. ICES J.Mar.Sci., 73(2) :451-463.

Geoffroy M., Rousseau, S., Pyć, C., 2012. 2011 Beaufort Sea active acoustics survey for marine mammal and pelagic fish detection. ArcticNet-Kongsberg Research Collaboration. 54 pp. Available at http://www.beaufortrea.ca/publications/.

Rousseau, S., Kunze, E., Dewey, R., Bartlett, K. and Dower, J., 2009. On turbulence production by swimming marine organisms in the open ocean and coastal waters. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 40(9), 2107-2121.