Rémi is an honours undergraduate student in geography at the University of Montréal, supervised by Dr. Oliver Sonnentag. He began his career working on a CubeSat team at Polytechnique Montréal before becoming a research assistant for Dr. Sonnentag, focusing on drone imagery and foliar chemistry. He was later sent to the Trail Valley Creek research station, where he worked for both the University of Montréal and the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry. There, he worked with automated and manual flux chambers, participated in a helicopter-based gas and water sampling campaign, and led the University of Montréal’s contribution to an international project studying the relationship between wood density and drought adaptation (Funtree, Project DIVERSE). In late summer 2024, he returned to the field at the Scotty Creek Research Station in the Dehcho region to continue the tree coring campaign and collect high-resolution drone imagery. For his honours thesis, he will analyze three years (2022, 2023 and 2024) of drone images to map changes in vegetation communities and canopy structure linked to a wildfire event. His project aims to improve our understanding of post-wildfire forest regeneration in a boreal peat complexe. 

Through NSERC CREATE LEAP program, Rémi goal is to deepen his theoretical and practical knowledge of permafrost related (scientific or socio-economic)  issues.