Mickaël Lalande

Mickaël Lalande

Postdoc Fellow

UQTR / RIVE / GLACIOLAB

I’m currently a postdoc fellow at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) / RIVE / GLACIOLAB funded by the ESA Climate Change Initiative on “ Snow cover heterogeneity and its impact on the Climate and Carbon cycle of Arctic regions (SnowC2)” under the supervision of Christophe Kinnard and Alexandre Roy. The main objectives of this project are to improve the current snow model in CLASSIC and assess the influence of these new developments in the Arctic.

Before that, I received my PhD at the Institute of Environmental Geosciences (Grenoble, France) on “ Modeling climate trends and variability in High Mountain Asia to understand cryosphere changes” supervised by Martin Ménégoz and Gerhard Krinner, where I mainly focused on a CMIP6 multimodel study and on improving the representation of topography in snow cover parameterizations using the ORCHIDEE land surface model.

Interests

  • Snow
  • Models
  • Mountain Areas
  • Arctic
  • General Circulation Models
  • CMIP6
  • Parameterizations
  • Deep Learning

Education

  • ESA CCI Postdoc Fellowship, 2023-2025

    UQTR / RIVE / GLACIOLAB (Trois-Rivières, Canada)

  • PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2019-2022

    Institute of Environmental Geosciences (Grenoble, France)

  • MSc in Atmosphere, Climate, and Continental Surfaces, 2019

    Université Grenoble Alpes (Grenoble, France)

  • BSc in Physics / Earth Science and Environment, 2013 / 2014

    Université Grenoble Alpes (Grenoble, France)

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