Education:

2015 : Multibeam Sonar Training Course
67th edition, New-Orleans, U-S

2015 : M.Sc. Geography - Coastal Geomorphology
Université Laval - Advisor : Patrick Lajeunesse
Influence of lithostratigraphy on the retreat of an unconsolidated sedimentary coastal cliff using a high resolution, multi-scale and multi-sources analysis (St. Lawrence Estuary, Eastern Canada)

2012 : Submarine Landslide, Earthquake and Tsunami
Summer School IOPD-ECORD, Bremen, Germany

2012 : B.Sc. Physical Geography - Germorphology
Université du Québec à Rimouski

Selected publication:

Joyal, G., Lajeunesse, P., Morissette, A., Bernatchez, P. Accepted. Influence of lithostratigraphy on the retreat of an unconsolidated sedimentary coastal cliff (St. Lawrence Estuary, Eastern Canada. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.

Joyal, G., Morissette, A. 2013. Évolution côtière micro échelle et mise au point d'un Indice de sensibilité géomorphologique des plages (ISGP), Géomorphologie : relief, processus et environnement, no. 3, p. 353-368.

Joyal, G., Lajeunesse, P., Locat, J., Turmel, D. 2013. Morpho-stratigraphy of nearshore shallow-water submarine mass movements in the Charlevoix area, Middle St. Lawrence Estuary (Eastern Canada), Poster presented at the 6th conference Submarine Mass Movement and their Consequences, Kiel, Germany, 23-25 sept. 2013.

Locat, J., Fontaine, A., Turmel, D., Noël, F., Lajeunesse, P., Joyal, G., Bernatchez, P. 2013. Carte morphostructurale de la façade maritime de Charlevoix : intégration des levés LiDAR, interférométriques et multifaisceaux, GéoMontréal 2013, 7 pages.

Joyal, G., Lajeunesse, P. 2013. Glissements côtiers sous-marins de Charlevoix ouest : Cap-au-Corbeau, St-Joseph-de-la-Rive et St-Irénée. Rapport LERN 13-01, 26 pages.

Research Interests:

Marine, Coastal and Glacial Geomorphology; Natural Hazards; LiDAR; Swath bathymetry (multibeam sonars) for bottom and iceberg mapping.