Rochon, André

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Grade, Université, années d’obtention

PhD Sciences de l’environnement, UQAM – 1997
Postdoctorat: Université de Westminster, Londres, Royaume-Uni – 1997 à 1999
Postdoctorat: Institut océanographique de Bedford, Commmission géologique du Canada – 1999 à 2001

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Domaines de recherches / Research Interest

Palynologie marine du Quaternaire (pollen, spores, kystes de dinoflagellés, acritarches), paléoenvironnements marins des hautes latitudes, reconstitution paléoenvironnementale des conditions marines de surface, fonctions de transfert, paléoécologie, paléocéanographie du Quaternaire, relations thèque-kyste chez les dinoflagellés, distribution actuelle et fossile des kystes de dinoflagellés

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Étudiants gradués/ Graduate students

Bringué, Manuel (MSc) mai 2007 à décembre 2009
Casas-Monroy, Oscar-Gabriel (MSc) septembre 2005 à septembre 2007
Casas-Monroy, Oscar-Gabriel (PhD) septembre 2007 à
Cormier, Marc-André (MSc) mai 2009 à
Lacasse, Olivia (MSc) septembre 2007 à
Ledu, David (PhD) septembre 2005 à septembre 2009
Piot, Adeline (MSc) septembre 2004 à décembre 2005
Potvin, Éric (MSc) janvier 2007 à mars 2010
Richerol, Thomas (MSc) septembre 2004 à septembre 2007
Richerol Thomas (PhD, U. Laval) septembre 2007 à

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Articles publiés / Published articles

Barletta, F., St-Onge, G., Channell, J.E.T., et Rochon, A. 2010. Paleomagnetic dating of Holocene Western Canadian Arctic sediments: combined use of the paleomagnetic secular variation and global spherical harmonic model of the geomagnetic field. Quaternary Science Reviews, in press.

Ledu, D, Rochon A, de Vernal A, Barletta F, et St-Onge G. 2010. Holocene sea-ice history and climate variability along the main axis of the Northwest Passage, Canadian Arctic, Paleoceanography, doi:10.1029/2009PA001817, in press.

Ledu, D, Rochon A, de Vernal A, Barletta F, et St-Onge G. 2010. Holocene paleoceanography of the Northwest Passage, Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Quaternary Science reviews, in press.

de Vernal, A., Hillaire-Marcel C, Solignac S, Radi T et Rochon, A 2009. Reconstructing sea-ice conditions in the Arctic and subarctic prior to human observations. In: E.T. Deweaver, C.M. Bitz and L.B. Tremblay (Eds.), Arctic Sea ice Decline: Observations, Projections, Mechanisms, and Implications. Geophysical Monographs, 180, 27-45.

Rochon A 2009. The ecology and biological affinity of Arctic dinoflagellates and their paleoceanographical significance in the Canadian High Arctic. In: Veiga-Pires, C. and St-Onge, G. (Eds.), From deep-sea to coastal zones: Methods and techniques for studying paleoenvironments. Open access IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (EES), 5. http://herald.iop.org/eesvolfive/m59/kje//link/2353

Rochon A, Lewis J, Ellegaard M et Harding IC 2009. The Gonyaulax spinifera (Dinophyceae) “complex”: perpetuating the paradox? Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 155, 52-60.

Scott DB, Schell TM, St-Onge G, Rochon A et Blasco S 2009. Foraminiferal assemblage changes over the last 15,000 years on the Mackenzie/ Beaufort sea slope and Amundsen Gulf, Canada: implications for past sea-ice conditions. Paleoceanography, 24, PA2219, doi:10.1029/2007PA001575.

Barletta F, St-Onge G, Channell JET, Rochon A, Polyak. L et Darby DA 2008. High-resolution paleomagnetic secular variation and relative paleointensity records from the western Canadian Arctic: implication for Holocene stratigraphy and geomagnetic field behaviour. Revue canadienne des sciences de la Terre, 45, 1265-1281.

Ledu D, Rochon A, de Vernal A et St-Onge G 2008. Palynological Evidence of Holocene Climate Oscillations in the Eastern Arctic: a possible shift in the Arctic Oscillation at millennial time scale. Revue canadienne des sciences de la Terre, 45, 1363-1375.

Piot A, Rochon A, Stora G et Desrosiers G. 2008. Experimental study on the influence of bioturbation performed by Nephtys caeca (Fabricius) and Nereis virens (Sars) annelidae on the distribution of dinoflagellate cysts in the sediment. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 359, 92-101.

Richerol T, Rochon A, Blasco S, Scott DB, Schell TM et Bennett R 2008. Evolution of sea surface conditions in the Mackenzie Trough (Beaufort Sea, Canada) over the last 1000 years. Marine Micropaleontology, 68(1-2), 6-20.

Richerol T, Rochon A, Blasco S, Scott DB, Schell TM et Bennett R 2008. Distribution of dinoflagellate cysts in surface sediments of the Mackenzie Shelf and Amundsen Gulf, Beaufort Sea (Canada). Journal of Marine System, 74, 825-839.

Rochon A, Eynaud F et de Vernal A 2008. Dinocysts as tracers of hydrographical conditions and productivity along the ocean margins: Introduction. Marine micropaleontology, 68(1-2), 1-5.

Schell TM, Moss TJ, Scott DB and Rochon A 2008. Paleo-sea ice conditions of the Amundsen Gulf, Canadian Arctic Archipelago: Implications from the foraminiferal record of the la 200 years. Journal of Geophysical Research 113: C03S02 doi: 1029/2007JC004202

Schell TM, Scott DB, Rochon A and Blasco S 2008. Holocene paleoceanography and paleo-sea ice conditions in the Mackenzie Trough and Canyon, Beaufort Sea. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 45, 1399-1415.

Scott DB, Schell T, Rochon A and Blasco S 2008. Benthic foraminifera in the surface sediments of the Beaufort Shelf and Slope, Beaufort Sea, Canada: Applications and implications for past sea-ice conditions. Journal of Marine Systems, 74, 840-863.

Scott DB, Schell TM, Rochon A. and Blasco S 2008. Modern benthic foraminifera in the surface sediments of the Beaufort Shelf, slope and Mackenzie Trough, Beaufort Sea, Canada: Taxonomy and summary of surficial distribution. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, v. 38, no. 3, 228-250.

Scott DB, Rochon A, Schell TM, St-Onge G, Blasco S et Bennett R 2008. Historical variability-Paleoclimates. In : L. Fortier, D.G. Barber et J. Michaud (Éds.), On Thin Ice : A synthesis of the Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study (CASES). Aboriginal Issues Press. Chapter 8.

St-Onge, G., Chapron, E., Guyard, H., Rochon, A., Lajeunesse, P., Scott, D., Locat, J., Stoner, J.S., Hillaire-Marcel., C. 2008. High-resolution physical and magnetic properties of rapidly deposited layers associated with landslides, earthquakes and floods. In : J. Locat et al (Éds.). Comptes rendus de la 4e Conférence canadienne sur les géorisques : des causes à la gestion. Presse de l’Université Laval, Québec, pp. 219-228.

de Vernal A, Rochon A et Radi T. 2006. Dinoflagellates. In: Elias, SA (Ed) Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, Paleoceanography, biological proxies, Vol. 3, 1652-1667.

Fisher D, Dyke A, Koerner R, Bourgeois J, Kinnard C, Zdanowicz C, de Vernal A, Hillaire-Marcel C, Savelle J et Rochon A 2006. Natural variability of Arctic sea ice over the Holocene. EOS Transactions, 87(28).

Mudie PJ, Rochon A, Prins MA, Soenarjo D, Troelstra SR, Levac E, Scott DB, Roncaglia L et Kuijpers A 2006. Late Pleistocene-Holocene marine geology of Nares Strait region: palaeoceanography from foraminifera and dinoflagellate cysts, sedimentology and stable isotopes. Chapter 11 in: Results of the 2001 Nares Strait Expedition; Tessensohn, F., Jackson, H.R., and Reid, I. (eds.) Polarforschung 74(1-3), 169-183.

de Vernal A, Eynaud F, Henry M, Hillaire-Marcel C, Londeix L, Mangin S, Matthiessen J, Marret F, Radi T, Rochon A, Solignac S et Turon J-L 2005. Reconstruction of sea-surface conditions at middle to high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) based on dinoflagellate cyst assemblages. Quaternary Science Reviews, 24(7-9), 897-924.

Hiscott RN, Aksu AE, Mudie PJ, Kaminski MA, Abrajano T, Yaşar D et Rochon A 2005. The Marmara Sea Gateway since 16 ky BP: non-catastrophic causes of paleoceanographic events in the Black Sea at 8.4 and 7.15 ky BP. In: Yanko-Hombach, V., Gilbert, A.S., Panin, N. and Dolukhanov, P. (eds.), The Black Sea flood question: changes in coastline, climate and human settlement. NATO Science Series IV, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Springer Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Mudie PJ, Rochon A et Levac E 2005. Arctic catastrophes: rapid sea ice changes in the Canadian Arctic and the impact on humans. Environmental Archaeology. The Journal of Human Palaeoecology, 10(2), 125-134.

Mudie PJ, Rochon A, Aksu AE et Gillespie H 2004. Late glacial, Holocene and modern dinoflagellate cyst assemblages in the Aegean-Marmara-Black Sea corridor: statistical analysis and re-interpretation of the early Holocene Noah’s Flood hypothesis. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 128, 143-167.

Rochon, A et Marret F 2004 Middle latitude dinoflagellates and their cysts: increasing our understanding on their distribution. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 128, 1-5.

Ellegaard M, Daugbjerg N, Rochon A, Lewis J et Harding IC 2003. Morphologic and genetic (LSU rDNA) variation within Spiniferites/Gonyaulax (Dinophyceae), including the cyst-theca relationship of Spiniferites elongatus and phylogenetic analysis of the position of Spiniferites and Bitectatodinium within the Gonyaulacales. Phycologia, 42, 151-164.

Marret F, Zonneveld KAF, Edwards LE, Rochon A et Targarona J 2003. Oceanographic context. In: Marret, F. and Zonneveld, K.A.F. (eds.), Atlas of modern global organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst distribution. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 125, 1-200.

Rochon, A. et Mudie, P.J. 2002. Pterocysta Gen. Nov.: A new dinoflagellate cyst from Pleistocene glacial-stage sediments of the Black and Marmara Seas. Palynology, 26, 95-105.

de Vernal, A., Henry, M., Matthiessen, J., Mudie, P.J., Rochon, A. Boessenkool, K.P., Eynaud, F., Grøsfjeld, K., Guiot, J., Hamel, D., Harland, R., Head, M.J., Kunz-Pirrung, M., Levac, E., Loucheur, V., Peyron, O., Pospelova, V., Radi, T., Turon, J.-L. et Voronina, E. 2001. Dinoflagellate cyst assemblages as tracers of sea-surface conditions in the northern North Atlantic, Arctic and sub-Arctic seas: the new “n=677” data base and its application for quantitative palaeoceanographic reconstruction. Journal of Quaternary Science, 16, 681-698.

Mudie, P.J. et Rochon, A. 2001. Distribution of dinoflagellate cysts in the Canadian Arctic marine region. Journal of Quaternary Science, 16, 603-620.

Rochon A, de Vernal A, Turon J-L, Matthiessen J et Head MJ 1999. Distribution of recent dinoflagellate cysts in surface sediments from the North Atlantic Ocean and adjacent seas in relation to sea-surface parameters. Contribution Series Number 35, American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation, 152 pp.

Rochon A et de Vernal A 1998. Palynological evidence of climatic and oceanographic changes in the North Sea during the Last Deglaciation. Quaternary Research, 49, 197-207.

de Vernal A, Rochon A, Turon J-L et Matthiessen J 1997. Organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts: Palynological tracers of sea-surface conditions in middle to high latitude marine environments. GEOBIOS, 30, 905-920.

Hillaire-Marcel C, de Vernal A, Lucotte M, Mucci A, Bilodeau G, Rochon A, Vallières S et Wu G 1994. Productivité et flux de carbone dans la mer du Labrador au cours des derniers 40 000 ans. Revue canadienne des sciences de la Terre, 31, 139-158.

Rochon A et de Vernal A 1994. Palynomorph distribution in Recent sediments from the Labrador Sea. Canadian journal of Earth Sciences, 31, 115-127.

de Vernal A, Rochon A, Hillaire-Marcel C, Turon J-L et Guiot J 1993. Quantitative reconstruction of sea-surface conditions, seasonal extent of sea-ice cover and meltwater discharges in high latitude marine environments from dinoflagellate cyst assemblages. In: W.R. Peltier (Ed.), Ice in the climate system, NATO ASI Series, Vol. I 12, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 611-621.

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