Pierre St-Laurent

Preferred Pronouns

he/him/his 

Education

Ph.D., Oceanography, 2010, Université du Québec, Rimouski, QC.
M.Sc., Oceanography, 2006, Université du Québec, Rimouski, QC.
B.Sc., Physics, 2003, Université Laval, Québec, QC.

Research Interests

My research interests revolve around the oceanography of coastal waters and their interactions with the open ocean, the continent or the atmosphere. These coastal areas are responsible for a large fraction of the global primary production and act as an interface between the highly-populated coastlines and the vast open ocean. My work involves identifying the role, and quantifying the importance, of the physical and biogeochemical processes governing the lower trophic levels. It includes both observational data and numerical models in order to improve our understanding of marine systems as well as decision-making.

Selected Publications

St-Laurent, P., M.A.M. Friedrichs (2024) On the sensitivity of coastal hypoxia to its external physical forcings, J. Adv. Model Earth Syst., 16(1), e2023MS003845, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023MS003845

St-Laurent, P., M.A.M. Friedrichs, R.G. Najjar, E.H. Shadwick, H. Tian, Y. Yao (2020), Relative impacts of global changes and regional watershed changes on the inorganic carbon balance of the Chesapeake Bay, Biogeosciences, 17(14), 3779-3796, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-3779-2020

Da, F., M.A.M. Friedrichs, P. St-Laurent (2018), Impacts of atmospheric nitrogen deposition and coastal nitrogen fluxes on oxygen concentrations in Chesapeake Bay, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 123, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014009

Najjar, R.G., P. St-Laurent and 28 other authors (2018), Carbon budget of tidal wetlands, estuaries, and shelf waters of Eastern North America, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 32, doi:10.1002/2017gb005790, link: https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GB005790

St-Laurent, P., M.A.M. Friedrichs, R.G. Najjar, D.K. Martins, M. Herrmann, S.K. Miller and J. Wilkin (2017), Impacts of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on surface waters of the western North Atlantic mitigated by multiple feedbacks, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 122(11), p.8406-8426, doi:10.1002/2017jc013072, link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2017jc013072

Professional Memberships

Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation
American Geophysical Union
American Meteorological Society
Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
International Glaciological Society