Research Interests

I am interested into general circulation models, biogeochemical models and marine ecology. I use modelling to investigate phytoplankton in Baffin Bay.

Education

2017 - 2024
Ph. D. Oceanography
Université Laval, Canada
Study of the controls of the phytoplankton bloom phenology and of the phytoplankton assemblage in Baffin Bay

2004 - 2007
M.Sc. Computer Science
Université de Montréal, Canada
New Algorithms to sort by Transpositions

2002 - 2004
DÉSS Bioinformatics
Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

2001 - 2002
B.Sc. Medical Biology
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada

Research Experience

Teaching Assistant (2019)
Biostatistics, Biology Department
Université Laval, Canada

Research professional (2011 - 2017)
Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Remote Sensing of Canada's New Arctic Frontier, (Chairholder Marcel Babin)
Université Laval, Canada

Scientific Leadership

Secretary and treasurer (2021 - 2022)
Sentinel North Student Association
Université Laval, Canada

Awards

2018
Scholarship from the international internship program of the Fonds de recherche du Québec Nature et technologies
Université Laval, Canada

2017
Sentinel North Ph.D. Scholarship
Université Laval, Canada

Publications

2024

Benoît-Gagné, M., Dutkiewicz, S., Deschepper, I., Dufresne, C., Dumont, D., Larouche, R., Mémery, L., Olivier, M. & Maps, F. (2024). Exploring controls on the timing of the phytoplankton bloom in western Baffin Bay, Canadian Arctic, Accepted.

2015

Lee, Y. J., Matrai, P. A., Friedrichs, M. A. M., Saba, V. S., Antoine, D., Ardyna, M., Asanuma, I., Babin, M., Bélanger, S. Benoît-Gagné, M., Devred, E., Fernández-Méndez, M., Gentili, B., Hirawake, T., Kang, S.-H., Kameda, T., Katlein, C., Lee, S. H., Lee, Z., Mélin, F., Scardi, M., Smyth, T. J., Tang, S., Turpie, K. R., Waters, K. J., & Westberry, T. K. (2015). An assessment of phytoplankton primary productivity in the Arctic Ocean from satellite ocean color/in situ chlorophyll-a-based models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 120: 6508-6541. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JC011018

2007

Benoît-Gagné, M. & Hamel, S. (2007) A New and Faster Method of Sorting by Transpositions. In Proceedings of CPM (Combinatorial Pattern Matching) 2007 LNCS 4580, pages 131-141.