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Research Interests

My research aims to better understand how climate change affects zooplankton, ichthyoplankton and fishes in Arctic seas, their interactions, and how these disturbances impact the ecosystem as a whole. My research program combine several disciplines and knowledge systems (Inuit knowledge, natural sciences, social sciences, participatory science) and aims to better predict the response of Arctic marine ecosystems to climate change. In collaboration with communities, my team seeks to understand how climate change is affecting Arctic marine ecosystems, and to anticipate how future changes will transform lifestyles in Inuit Nunaat.

Education

2007 - 2014
Ph.D. Oceanography
Université Laval
Boreogadus saida et Arctogadus glacialis : vie larvaire et juvénile de deux gadidés se partageant l'océan Arctique

2005 - 2007
M.Sc. Biology
Université Laval
Saison d'éclosion, croissance initiale et survie de la morue arctique (Boreogadus saida) en mer de Laptev: impact des polynies

2001 - 2004
B.Sc. Biology
Université du Québec à Rimouski

Research Experience

Assistant Professor (2024 - present)
Department of Biology
Université Laval, Canada

Senior Researcher (2022 - 2024)
Greenland Climate Research Centre, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (Pinngortitaleriffik)
Nuuk, Greenland

Adjunct Professor (2019 - 2024)
Department of Biology
Université Laval, Canada

Researcher (2017 - 2022)
Greenland Climate Research Centre, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources (Pinngortitaleriffik)
Nuuk, Greenland

Postdoctoral Researcher (2015 - 2016)
W. Garfield Weston Foundation Department of Biology
Université Laval, Canada

Postdoctoral Researcher (2013 - 2014)
Postdoctoral Researcher MARICE
University of Iceland, Iceland

Scientific Leadership

Member of Program Committee (2025 - present)
Doctorat Interuniversitaire en Océanographie
Université Laval, Canada

Associate Editor (2021 - present)
Arctic Science

Member of ESSAS (2018 - present)
Member of ESSAS (Ecosystem Studies of Subarctic and Arctic Seas), Scientific Steering Committee

Publications

2024

David, C. L., Hutchings, J. A., Feng, Z., Bouchard, C., Alabia, I., Hop, H., Zhang, J., & Ji, R. (2024). Modeling larval dispersal and growth of Arctic cod in relation to life history traits and environmental variability. Elementa Science of the Anthropocene, accepted.

Dmitrenko, I. A., Petrusevich, V. Y., Preußer, A., Kosobokova, K., Bouchard, C., Geoffroy, M., Komarov, A. S., Babb, D. G., Kirillov, S. A., & Barber, D. G. (2024). Contrasting two major Arctic coastal polynyas: The role of sea ice in driving diel vertical migrations of zooplankton in the Laptev and Beaufort seas. Ocean Science, accepted.

Falk, K., Merkel, F., Bergsma, M., Johansen, K. L., Kampp, K., Labansen, A. L., Mosbech, A., Oshima, M., & Bouchard, C. (2024). The thick-billed murre (Uria lomvia) in Northwest Greenland (Avanersuaq) relies on Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) in a changing climate. Arctic Science, accepted.

Herbig, J., Fisher, J., Niemi, A., Bouchard, C., & Geoffroy, M. (2024). Bottom-up processes drive abundance and spatial distribution of ichthyoplankton and zooplankton communities in subarctic and Arctic regions. Marine Ecology Progress Series, submitted.

Jones, L. F., Schembri, S., Bouchard, C., Maps, F., & Baumann, H. (2024). Molecular identification of larval sand lance (Ammodytes spp.) caught in the Hudson Bay System 2010-2018. Polar Biology, submitted.

Ogawa, M., Jansen, T., Rosing-Asvid, A., Schiøtt, S., Sakuragi, Y., Bouchard, C., Post, S., Podolskiy, E. A., Otsuki, M., Sugiyama, S., & Mitani, Y. (2024). Increasing significance of glaciers in a warming Arctic: Concrete evidence of tidewater glacier front as a key foraging ground for ringed seal. Science Advances, submitted.

2023

Bouchard, C., Farnole, P., Lynge-Pedersen, K., Dahl, P. E., & Christiansen, H. (2023). Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) in fjord and glacial habitats: A collaborative study with Uummannap Kangerlua fishers. Arctic Science, 9(4), 781–795. https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2023-0014

Geoffroy, M., Bouchard, C., Flores, H., Robert, D., Gjøsæter, H., Hoover, C., Hop, H., Hussey, N. E., Nahrgang, J., Steiner, N., Bender, M., Berge, J., Castellani, G., Chernova, N., Copeman, L., David, C. L., Deary, A., Divoky, G., Dolgov, A. V., … Walkusz, W. (2023). The circumpolar impacts of climate change and anthropogenic stressors on Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) and its ecosystem. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 11(1), 00097. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2022.00097

Herbig, J., Fisher, J., Bouchard, C., Niemi, A., LeBlanc, M., Majewski, A., Gauthier, S., & Geoffroy, M. (2023). Climate and juvenile recruitment as drivers of Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) dynamics in two Canadian Arctic seas. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 11(1), 00033. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2023.00033

Jones, L. F., Lou, R. N., Murray, C. S., Robert, D., Bourne, C. M., Bouchard, C., Kučka, M., Chan, Y. F., Carlon, D. B., Wiley, D. N., Therkildsen, N. O., & Baumann, H. (2023). Two distinct population clusters of northern sand lance (Ammodytes dubius) on the northwest Atlantic shelf revealed by whole genome sequencing. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 80(1), 122–132. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsac217

Schembri, S., Bouchard, C., Pontbriand, T., & Maps, F. (2023). Seasonality of zooplankton communities in the Hudson Bay system. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 11(1), 00113. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2022.00113

2022

Bouchard, C., Chawarski, J., Geoffroy, M., Klasmeier, A., Møller, E. F., Mohn, C., & Agersted, M. D. (2022). Resource partitioning may limit interspecific competition among Arctic fish species during early life. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 10(1), 00038. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2021.00038

David, C. L., Ji, R., Bouchard, C., Hop, H., & Hutchings, J. A. (2022). The interactive effects of temperature and food consumption on growth of larval Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida): A bioenergetic model. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 9(1), 00045. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2021.00045

Schembri, S., Deschepper, I., Myers, P. G., Sirois, P., Fortier, L., Bouchard, C., & Maps, F. (2022). Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) hatching in the Hudson Bay system: Testing of the freshwater winter refuge hypothesis. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 9(1), 00042. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2021.00042

Straneo, F., Slater, D. A., Bouchard, C., Cape, M. R., Carey, M., Ciannelli, L., Holte, J., Matrai, P., Laidre, K., Little, C., Meire, L., Seroussi, H., & Vernet, M. (2022). An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Greenland’s Changing Coastal Margins. Oceanography, 35(3/4), 106–117. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2022.128

2021

Bouchard, C., Charbogne, A., Baumgartner, F., & Maes, S. M. (2021). West Greenland ichthyoplankton and how melting glaciers could allow Arctic cod larvae to survive extreme summer temperatures. Arctic Science, 7(1), 217–239. https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2020-0019

Dmitrenko, I. A., Petrusevich, V. Y., Kosobokova, K., Komarov, A. S., Bouchard, C., Geoffroy, M., Koldunov, N. V., Babb, D. G., Kirillov, S. A., & Barber, D. G. (2021). Coastal polynya disrupts the acoustic backscatter diurnal signal over the eastern laptev sea shelf. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.791096

2020

Bouchard, C., & Fortier, L. (2020). The importance of Calanus glacialis for the feeding success of young polar cod: A circumpolar synthesis. Polar Biology, 43(8), 1095–1107. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-020-02643-0

LeBlanc, M., Geoffroy, M., Bouchard, C., Gauthier, S., Majewski, A., Reist, J. D., & Fortier, L. (2020). Pelagic production and the recruitment of juvenile polar cod Boreogadus saida in Canadian Arctic seas. Polar Biology, 43(8), 1043–1054. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-019-02565-6

Nelson, R. J., Bouchard, C., Fortier, L., Majewski, A. R., Reist, J. D., Præbel, K., Madsen, M. L., Rose, G. A., Kessel, S. T., & Divoky, G. J. (2020). Circumpolar genetic population structure of polar cod, Boreogadus saida. Polar Biology, 43(8), 951–961. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-020-02660-z

2018

Bouchard, C., Geoffroy, M., LeBlanc, M., & Fortier, L. (2018). Larval and adult fish assemblages along the Northwest Passage: The shallow Kitikmeot and the ice-covered Parry Channel as potential barriers to dispersal. Arctic Science, 4(4), 781–793. https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2018-0003

2017

Bouchard, C., Geoffroy, M., LeBlanc, M., Majewski, A., Gauthier, S., Walkusz, W., Reist, J. D., & Fortier, L. (2017). Climate warming enhances polar cod recruitment, at least transiently. Progress in Oceanography, 156, 121–129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2017.06.008

Falardeau, M., Bouchard, C., Robert, D., & Fortier, L. (2017). First records of Pacific sand lance (Ammodytes hexapterus) in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Polar Biology, 40(11), 2291–2296. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-017-2141-0

2016

Bouchard, C., Mollard, S., Suzuki, K., Robert, D., & Fortier, L. (2016). Contrasting the early life histories of sympatric Arctic gadids Boreogadus saida and Arctogadus glacialis in the Canadian Beaufort Sea. Polar Biology, 39(6), 1005–1022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-014-1617-4

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2014

Bouchard, C., Thorrold, S. R., & Fortier, L. (2015). Spatial segregation, dispersion and migration in early stages of polar cod Boreogadus saida revealed by otolith chemistry. Marine Biology, 162(4), 855–868. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-015-2629-5

Pepin, P., Robert, D., Bouchard, C., Dower, J. F., Falardeau, M., Fortier, L., Jenkins, G. P., Leclerc, V., Levesque, K., Llopiz, J. K., Meekan, M. G., Murphy, H. M., Ringuette, M., Sirois, P., & Sponaugle, S. (2015). Once upon a larva: Revisiting the relationship between feeding success and growth in fish larvae. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 72(2), 359–373. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsu201

Suzuki, K. W., Bouchard, C., Robert, D., & Fortier, L. (2015). Spatiotemporal occurrence of summer ichthyoplankton in the southeast Beaufort Sea. Polar Biology, 38(9), 1379–1389. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-015-1701-4

Woods, P. J., Bouchard, C., Holland, D. S., Punt, A. E., & Marteinsdóttir, G. (2015). Catch-quota balancing mechanisms in the Icelandic multi-species demersal fishery: Are all species equal? Marine Policy, 55, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2015.01.004

2013

Bouchard, C., Robert, D., Nelson, R. J., & Fortier, L. (2013). The nucleus of the lapillar otolith discriminates the early life stages of Boreogadus saida and Arctogadus glacialis. Polar Biology, 36(10), 1537–1542. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-013-1371-z

Nelson, R. J., Bouchard, C., Madsen, M., Praebel, K., Rondeau, E., Von Schalburg, K., Leong, J. S., Jantzen, S., Sandwith, Z., Puckett, S., Messmer, A., Fevolden, S.-E., & Koop, B. F. (2013). Microsatellite loci for genetic analysis of the arctic gadids Boreogadus saida and Arctogadus glacialis. Conservation Genetics Resources, 5(2), 445–448. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-012-9824-1

2011

Bouchard, C., & Fortier, L. (2011). Circum-arctic comparison of the hatching season of polar cod Boreogadus saida: A test of the freshwater winter refuge hypothesis. Arctic Marine Ecosystems in an Era of Rapid Climate Change, 90(1), 105–116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2011.02.008

2008

Bouchard C & Fortier L. (2008). Effects of polynyas on the hatching season, early growth and survival of polar cod Boreogadus saida in the Laptev Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 355, 247–256. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07335