Research Interests

• Aquatic ecology
• Climate change
• Paleoecology
• Biogeography
• Anthropogenic impacts

Education

2008 - 2010
Postdoctoral fellowship
Université McGill, Canada
Long-term dynamics of Uganda crater lakes; Sedimentary indicators of environmental change in shallow lakes of NE USA

2001 - 2007
Ph.D. Geography
Université Laval, Canada
Impacts de l'évolution climatique postglaciaire sur les lacs de l'extrême Nord de l'Ungava, Québec

1998 - 2000
M.Sc. Geography
Université Laval, Canada
Succession et variations limnologiques holocènes d'un lac côtier subarctique

1994 - 1998
B.A. Major in Physical geography and minor in German
Université Laval, Canada

Research Experience

Assistant professor of geoecology (2020 - present)
Research Chair in coastal ecosystems and port, industrial and maritime activities (in dual attachment to departments of Biology-FSG and Geography-FFGG)
Université Laval, Canada

Research associate (2011 - 2020)
Marine Biology and Quaternary Research Center, University of Alaska (part-time)
Fairbanks, USA

Research assistant (2019/02 - 2019/12)
Centre d'études nordiques - CEN
Université Laval, Canada

Research assistant (2018/05 - 2018/08)
Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences and engineering
Université Laval, Canada

Biologist (BI-2) (2018/01 - 2018/04)
Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Government of Canada
Institut Maurice-Lamontagne, Canada

Research assistant (2016/06 - 2016/12)
Centre d'études nordiques - CEN
Université Laval, Canada

Postdoctoral fellow (2012/10 - 2013/08)
Zoology (limnology)
Université d'Otago, New-Zealand

Scientific coordinator (2010/09 - 2011/09)
Centre d'études nordiques - CEN
Université Laval, Canada

Postdoctoral Fellow (2008/01 - 2010/08)
Biology, Faculty of science
McGill University, Canada

Research Assistant (2007/07 - 2007/12)
Biology, Faculty of science
McGill University, Canada

Scientific Leadership

Review editor paleoecology section (2018/07 - 2025/12)
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, journal

Review editor Plant Conservation (2020/10 - 2025/10)
Frontiers in Conservation Science, journal

Member (2019/10 - 2023/12)
Past Global Changes (PAGES)

Member (2019/09 - 2023/12)
Past4future working group

Member (2016/11 - 2023/12)
GLEON

Invited co-editor special issue (2020/04 - 2021/05)
Water MDPI, journal

Collaborator (2017/01 - 2020/07)
Arctic Council CAFF

Reviewer, Réseau Québec-Maritime (2019/12 - 2020/03)
Review of grant applications for a RQM program

Member (2017/04 - 2019/12)
Aquatic Transitions Working Group, Past Global Changes (PAGES)

Researcher (2018/01 - 2019/07)
Participation in a research group on coastal development in the Chuckchi Sea (Alaska), as a diatomist
USA

Researcher (2018/04 - 2018/12)
Participation in a research group on an invasive diatom in the lakes of the South Island (NZ), as a diatomist
New-Zealand

Author (2015/04 - 2018/12)
Participation in a PAGES (Aquatic transitions) working group for the writing of a summary article on anthropogenic impacts on lake ecosystems
Switzerland

Invited editor special issue (2017/09 - 2018/07)
Geosciences MDPI, journal

Researcher (2015/04 - 2018/07)
Participation in a research project on lakes in the Fairbanks (Alaska) region as a diatomist
USA

Researcher (2014/02 - 2017/07)
Participation in a research project on the natural history of St. Paul Island (Alaska) as a diatomist
USA

Member of the local organizing committee(2015/03 - 2016/08)
24th International Diatom Symposium
Conférence, 2016/8 - 2016/8

Awards

2022
Étoile de l'enseignement de la Faculté des Sciences et de Génie Université Laval, Distinction, Prix remis aux enseignants qui ont obtenu une note de 90% et plus dans l'appréciation des cours qu'ils offrent
Université Laval, Canada

2021
Prix Gisèle-Lamoureux pour publication en français - 2 000 Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT) Prix article primé

2021
Personnalité inspirante de la Faculté des Sciences et de Génie Université Laval, Distinction, Prix remis aux membres de la Faculté de Sciences et de Génie de l'Université Laval qui se sont distingués pendant l'année en remportant des prix, des subventions, ou par leur implication dans différents milieux.
Université Laval, Canada

2016
Cozzarelli Prize American Association for the Advancement of Science, Prix remis aux articles les plus marquants ayant été publiés dans la revue Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

Publications

2024

Pienitz, R., Labrie, R., Narancic, B., Saulnier-Talbot, É., & Meyer, H. (2024, March 9). Evolution of paleohydrological pathways at Nettilling Lake, Baffin Island (Nunavut, Canada) since deglaciation. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-13240

Saulnier-Talbot, É., Duchesne, É., Antoniades, D., Arseneault, D., Barnard, C., Berteaux, D., Bhiry, N., Bouchard, F., Boudreau, S., Cazelles, K., Comte, J., Corbeil-Robitaille, M.-Z., Côté, S. D., Couture, R.-M., de Lafontaine, G., Domine, F., Fauteux, D., Fortier, D., Garneau, M., … Bêty, J. (2024). Expert elicitation of state shifts and divergent sensitivities to climate warming across northern ecosystems. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01791-z

2023

Arseneault, E., Pienitz, R., Carrière, J., & Saulnier-Talbot, É. (2023). Insights into Diatom Substrate Preferences in the Inter-Tidal Zone of a Subarctic Coast. Hydrobiology, 2(4), 537–553. https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrobiology2040036

Saulnier-Talbot, É., Duchesne, E., Antoniades, D., Arseneault, D., Barnard, C., Berteaux, D., Bhiry, N., Bouchard, F., Boudreau, S., Cazelles, K., Comte, J., Corbeil-Robitaille, M.-Z., Côté, S., Couture, R.-M., Fontaine, G. D. L., Domine, F., Fauteux, D., Fortier, D., Garneau, M., … Bêty, J. (2023). State shifts and divergent sensitivities to climate warming across northern ecosystems [Preprint]. In Review. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3026284/v1

2022

Ferrario, F., Araújo, C. A. S., Bélanger, S., Bourgault, D., Carrière, J., Carrier-Belleau, C., Dreujou, E., Johnson, L. E., Juniper, S. K., Mabit, R., McKindsey, C. W., Ogston, L., Picard, M. M. M., Saint-Louis, R., Saulnier-Talbot, É., Shaw, J.-L., Templeman, N., Therriault, T. W., Tremblay, J.-E., & Archambault, P. (2022). Holistic environmental monitoring in ports as an opportunity to advance sustainable development, marine science, and social inclusiveness. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 10(1), 00061. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2021.00061

Kahlert, M., Rühland, K. M., Lavoie, I., Keck, F., Saulnier-Talbot, É., Bogan, D., Brua, R. B., Campeau, S., Christoffersen, K. S., Culp, J. M., Karjalainen, S. M., Lento, J., Schneider, S. C., Shaftel, R., & Smol, J. P. (2022). Biodiversity patterns of Arctic diatom assemblages in lakes and streams: Current reference conditions and historical context for biomonitoring. Freshwater Biology, 67(1), 116–140. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13490

Lento, J., Laske, S. M., Lavoie, I., Bogan, D., Brua, R. B., Campeau, S., Chin, K., Culp, J. M., Levenstein, B., Power, M., Saulnier-Talbot, É., Shaftel, R., Swanson, H., Whitman, M., & Zimmerman, C. E. (2022). Diversity of diatoms, benthic macroinvertebrates, and fish varies in response to different environmental correlates in Arctic rivers across North America. Freshwater Biology, 67(1), 95–115. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13600

Narancic, B., Saulnier-Talbot, É., Meyer, H., & Pienitz, R. (2022). A 5000‐year paleoclimate record from Nettilling Lake (Baffin Island) based on diatom assemblages and oxygen isotope composition. Journal of Quaternary Science, 37(5), 959–966. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3366

2021

Jane, S. F., Hansen, G. J. A., Kraemer, B. M., Leavitt, P. R., Mincer, J. L., North, R. L., Pilla, R. M., Stetler, J. T., Williamson, C. E., Woolway, R. I., Arvola, L., Chandra, S., DeGasperi, C. L., Diemer, L., Dunalska, J., Erina, O., Flaim, G., Grossart, H.-P., Hambright, K. D., Saulnier-Talbot, É., … Rose, K. C. (2021). Widespread deoxygenation of temperate lakes. Nature, 594(7861), 66–70. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03550-y

Narancic, B., Saulnier-Talbot, É., St-Onge, G., & Pienitz, R. (2021). Diatom sedimentary assemblages and Holocene pH reconstruction from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago’s largest lake. Écoscience, 28(3–4), 347–360. https://doi.org/10.1080/11956860.2021.1926642

Pilla, R. M., Mette, E. M., Williamson, C. E., Adamovich, B. V., Adrian, R., Anneville, O., Balseiro, E., Ban, S., Chandra, S., Colom-Montero, W., Devlin, S. P., Dix, M. A., Dokulil, M. T., Feldsine, N. A., Feuchtmayr, H., Fogarty, N. K., Gaiser, E. E., Girdner, S. F., González, M. J., Saulnier-Talbot, É., … Zhukova, T. V. (2021). Global data set of long-term summertime vertical temperature profiles in 153 lakes. Scientific Data, 8(1), 200. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00983-y

2020

Pilla, R. M., Williamson, C. E., Adamovich, B. V., Adrian, R., Anneville, O., Chandra, S., Colom-Montero, W., Devlin, S. P., Dix, M. A., Dokulil, M. T., Gaiser, E. E., Girdner, S. F., Hambright, K. D., Hamilton, D. P., Havens, K., Hessen, D. O., Higgins, S. N., Huttula, T. H., Huuskonen, H., Saulnier-Talbot, É., … Zadereev, E. (2020). Deeper waters are changing less consistently than surface waters in a global analysis of 102 lakes. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 20514. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-76873-x

Robitaille, J., Saulnier-Talbot, É., & Lavoie, I. (2020). Biosuivi du marais Léon-Provancher depuis sa mise en eau (1996-2016): Implications pour la conservation d’un milieu humide aménagé. Le Naturaliste Canadien, 144(2), 77–93. https://doi.org/10.7202/1073991ar

Saulnier-Talbot, É., Antoniades, D., & Pienitz, R. (2020). Hotspots of biotic compositional change in lakes along vast latitudinal transects in northern Canada. Global Change Biology, 26(4), 2270–2279. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15016

2019

Bigelow, N. H., Reuther, J. D., Wallace, K. L., Saulnier-Talbot, É., Mulliken, K., & Wooller, M. J. (2019). Late-Glacial Paleoecology of the Middle Susitna Valley, Alaska: Environmental Context for Human Dispersal. Frontiers in Earth Science, 7, 43. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2019.00043

2018

Dubois, N., Saulnier-Talbot, É., Mills, K., Gell, P., Battarbee, R., Bennion, H., Chawchai, S., Dong, X., Francus, P., Flower, R., Gomes, D. F., Gregory-Eaves, I., Humane, S., Kattel, G., Jenny, J., Langdon, P., Massaferro, J., McGowan, S., Mikomägi, A., … Valero-Garcés, B. (2018). First human impacts and responses of aquatic systems: A review of palaeolimnological records from around the world. The Anthropocene Review, 5(1), 28–68. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053019617740365

Elchyshyn, L., Goyette, J.-O., Saulnier-Talbot, É., Maranger, R., Nozais, C., Solomon, C. T., & Gregory-Eaves, I. (2018). Quantifying the effects of hydrological changes on long-term water quality trends in temperate reservoirs: Insights from a multi-scale, paleolimnological study. Journal of Paleolimnology, 60(3), 361–379. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-018-0027-y

Saulnier-Talbot, É., Chapman, L. J., Efitre, J., Simpson, K. G., & Gregory-Eaves, I. (2018). Long-Term Hydrologic Fluctuations and Dynamics of Primary Producers in a Tropical Crater Lake. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 6, 223. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2018.00223

Saulnier-Talbot, É., & Lavoie, I. (2018). Uncharted waters: The rise of human-made aquatic environments in the age of the “Anthropocene”. Anthropocene, 23, 29–42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2018.07.003

Wooller, M. J., Saulnier-Talbot, É., Potter, B. A., Belmecheri, S., Bigelow, N., Choy, K., Cwynar, L. C., Davies, K., Graham, R. W., Kurek, J., Langdon, P., Medeiros, A., Rawcliffe, R., Wang, Y., & Williams, J. W. (2018). A new terrestrial palaeoenvironmental record from the Bering Land Bridge and context for human dispersal. Royal Society Open Science, 5(6), 180145. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.180145

2017

Mills, K., Schillereff, D., Saulnier-Talbot, É., Gell, P., Anderson, N. J., Arnaud, F., Dong, X., Jones, M., McGowan, S., Massaferro, J., Moorhouse, H., Perez, L., & Ryves, D. B. (2017). Deciphering long‐term records of natural variability and human impact as recorded in lake sediments: A palaeolimnological puzzle. WIREs Water, 4(2), e1195. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1195

Novis, P., Schallenberg, M., Saulnier-Talbot, É., Kilroy, C., & Reid, M. (2017). The diatom Lindavia intermedia identified as the producer of nuisance pelagic mucilage in lakes. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 55(4), 479–495. https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825X.2017.1377263

2016

Graham, R. W., Belmecheri, S., Choy, K., Culleton, B. J., Davies, L. J., Froese, D., Heintzman, P. D., Hritz, C., Kapp, J. D., Newsom, L. A., Rawcliffe, R., Saulnier-Talbot, É., Shapiro, B., Wang, Y., Williams, J. W., & Wooller, M. J. (2016). Timing and causes of mid-Holocene mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island, Alaska. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(33), 9310–9314. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1604903113

Saulnier-Talbot, É. (2016). Paleolimnology as a Tool to Achieve Environmental Sustainability in the Anthropocene: An Overview. Geosciences, 6(2), 26. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences6020026

Schallenberg, M., & Saulnier-Talbot, É. (2016). Trajectory of an anthropogenically induced ecological regime shift in a New Zealand shallow coastal lake. Marine and Freshwater Research, 67(10), 1522. https://doi.org/10.1071/MF15211

2015

Saulnier-Talbot, É. (2015). Overcoming the disconnect: Are paleolimnologists doing enough to make their science accessible to aquatic managers and conservationists? Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 3. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2015.00032

Saulnier-Talbot, É., Larocque-Tobler, I., Gregory-Eaves, I., & Pienitz, R. (2015). Response of Lacustrine Biota to Late Holocene Climate and Environmental Conditions in Northernmost Ungava (Canada). Arctic, 68(2), 153–168. JSTOR.

2014

Saulnier-Talbot, É., Gregory-Eaves, I., Simpson, K. G., Efitre, J., Nowlan, T. E., Taranu, Z. E., & Chapman, L. J. (2014). Small Changes in Climate Can Profoundly Alter the Dynamics and Ecosystem Services of Tropical Crater Lakes. PLoS ONE, 9(1), e86561. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0086561

2013

Vermaire, J. C., Greffard, M.-H., Saulnier-Talbot, É., & Gregory-Eaves, I. (2013). Changes in submerged macrophyte abundance altered diatom and chironomid assemblages in a shallow lake. Journal of Paleolimnology, 50(4), 447–456. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-013-9737-3

2012

Greffard, M.-H., Saulnier-Talbot, É., & Gregory-Eaves, I. (2012). Sub-fossil chironomids are significant indicators of turbidity in shallow lakes of northeastern USA. Journal of Paleolimnology, 47(4), 561–581. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-012-9581-x

2011

Bhiry, N., Delwaide, A., Allard, M., Bégin, Y., Filion, L., Lavoie, M., Nozais, C., Payette, S., Pienitz, R., Saulnier-Talbot, É., & Vincent, W. F. (2011). Environmental change in the Great Whale River region, Hudson Bay: Five decades of multidisciplinary research by Centre d’études nordiques (CEN). Écoscience, 18(3), 182–203. https://doi.org/10.2980/18-3-3469

Chen, G., Saulnier-Talbot, É., Selbie, D. T., Brown, E., Schindler, D. E., Bunting, L., Leavitt, P. R., Finney, B. P., & Gregory-Eaves, I. (2011). Salmon-derived nutrients drive diatom beta-diversity patterns: Salmon nutrients and diatom beta-diversity. Freshwater Biology, 56(2), 292–301. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02496.x

Greffard, M.-H., Saulnier-Talbot, É., & Gregory-Eaves, I. (2011). A comparative analysis of fine versus coarse taxonomic resolution in benthic chironomid community analyses. Ecological Indicators, 11(6), 1541–1551. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.03.024

Payette, S., & Saulnier-Talbot, É. (2011). Un demi-siècle de recherche au Centre d’études nordiques: Un défi de tous les instants. Écoscience, 18(3), 171–181. https://doi.org/10.2980/18-3-3492

2010

Hobbs, W. O., Telford, R. J., Birks, H. J. B., Saros, J. E., Hazewinkel, R. R. O., Perren, B. B., Saulnier-Talbot, É., & Wolfe, A. P. (2010). Quantifying Recent Ecological Changes in Remote Lakes of North America and Greenland Using Sediment Diatom Assemblages. PLoS ONE, 5(4), e10026. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010026 https://doi.org/

Saulnier-Talbot, É., & Pienitz, R. (2010). Postglacial chironomid assemblage succession in northernmost Ungava Peninsula, Canada. Journal of Quaternary Science, 25(2), 203–213. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.1296

2009

Saulnier-Talbot, É., Pienitz, R., & Stafford Jr., T. W. (2009). Establishing Holocene sediment core chronologies for northern Ungava lakes, Canada, using humic acids (AMS 14C) and 210Pb. Quaternary Geochronology, 4(4), 278–287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2009.02.018

2007

Saulnier-Talbot, É., Leng, M. J., & Pienitz, R. (2007). Recent climate and stable isotopes in modern surface waters of northernmost Ungava Peninsula, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 44(2), 171–180. https://doi.org/10.1139/e06-089

2005

Smol, J. P., Wolfe, A. P., Birks, H. J. B., Douglas, M. S. V., Jones, V. J., Korhola, A., Pienitz, R., Rühland, K., Sorvari, S., Antoniades, D., Brooks, S. J., Fallu, M.-A., Hughes, M., Keatley, B. E., Laing, T. E., Michelutti, N., Nazarova, L., Nyman, M., Paterson, A. M., Saulnier-Talbot, É., … Weckström, J. (2005). Climate-driven regime shifts in the biological communities of arctic lakes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(12), 4397–4402. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0500245102

2004

Saulnier-Talbot, É., & Pienitz, R. (2004). The State of Lakes in Northern Ungava Peninsula During the Last 200 Years: A Picture of Recent Environmental Stability. 2004, GC23A-18. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts.

2003

Saulnier-Talbot, É., Pienitz, R., & Vincent, W. F. (2003). Holocene lake succession and palaeo-optics of a Subarctic lake, northern Québec, Canada. The Holocene, 13(4), 517–526. https://doi.org/10.1191/0959683603hl641rp

2002

Saulnier-Talbot, É., & Pienitz, R. (2002). Isolation au postglaciaire d’un bassin côtier près de Kuujjuaraapik-Whapmagoostui, en Hudsonie (Québec): Une analyse biostratigraphique diatomifère. Géographie Physique et Quaternaire, 55(1), 63–74. https://doi.org/10.7202/005662ar

2001

Swadling, K. M., Dartnall, H. J. G., Gibson, J. A. E., Saulnier-Talbot, É., & Vincent, W. F. (2001). Fossil Rotifers and the Early Colonization of an Antarctic Lake. Quaternary Research, 55(3), 380–384. https://doi.org/10.1006/qres.2001.2222

Books (edited):

Lento, J., Goedkoop, W., Culp, J., Christoffersen, K. S., Fefilova, E., Guðbergsson, G., Liljaniemi, P., ÓLafsson, J. S., Sandøy, S., Zimmerman, C., Christensen, T., Chambers, P., Heino, J., Hellsten, S., Kahlert, M., Keck, F., Laske, S., Lau, D. C. P., Lavoie, I., Saulnier-Talbot, É., … Svenning, M. (with Lárusson, K. F.). (2019). State of the Arctic Freshwater Biodiversity. Consvervation of Arctic Flora and Fauna.

Schallenberg, M., & Saulnier-Talbot, É. (2014). Recent environmental history of Wainono Lagoon (South Canterbury, New Zealand) (Revised November 2014). Environment Canterbury Regional Council.

Saulnier-Talbot, É. (2001). Succession lacustre et variations limnologiques holocènes du lac Kachishayoot, Québec nordique, inférées par les assemblages fossiles de diatomées. National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada.

Book chapters:

Mills, K., Jones, M. D., Hunt, L. H., Saulnier-Talbot, É., Elias, D., Nankabirwa, A., Lejju, J. B., & Gell, P. A. (2023). Cultural landscapes: Human impacts on wetlands. In Ramsar Wetlands (pp. 237–258). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-817803-4.00013-9