Bourgault, Daniel
Professeur en océanographie physique côtière
Département : Institut des sciences de la mer de Rimouski
Campus : Campus de Rimouski
Courriel : daniel_bourgault@uqar.ca
Téléphone : 418 723-1986, poste 1763
Téléphone sans frais : 1 800 511-3382, poste 1763
Bureau : O-248
Domaines de recherche :
- Océanographie-physique côtière des milieux arctiques et subarctiques
- Renouvellement des eaux dans le fjord du Saguenay
- Observations et simulations des ondes internes et de la turbulence
- Ventilation et hypoxie dans le Saint-Laurent
- Flux verticaux d’éléments nutritifs
Recherches et expertises
Formation
- Professeur-chercheur, océanographie physique, Memorial University, 2003-2009
- Postdoctorat, océanographie physique, Dalhousie University, Canada, 2001-2003
- Ph.D. océanographie physique, McGill University, Montréal, Canada, 2001
- M. Sc. océanographie physique, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski, Canada, 1996
- Maîtrise océanographie physique, Université d’Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France, 1994.
Art, Science et vulgarisation
Supervision d'étudiants de cycles supérieurs
Research Interest
Publications et communications
Publications
Articles publiés / Published articles
- Galbraith P S, Bourgault D, Belzile M (2018) : Circulation et renouvellement des masses d’eau du fjord du Saguenay. Le Naturaliste canadien, 142 (2), 36-46
- Bourgault D, Galbraith P S et Dumont D (2017) : Chapitre 2 : Hydrographie du golfe du Saint-Laurent, In : Les hydrocarbures dans le golfe du Saint-Laurent, enjeux sociaux, économiques et environnementaux, sous la direction de Archambault P, Schloss I R, Grant C et Plante S, Notre Golfe, Rimouski, Qc, Canada, 324 p.
- Bourgault D, Tremblay H, Schloss I, Plante S et Archambault P (2017) : Chapitre 9 : Données environnementales commercialement sensibles : Une étude de cas, In : Les hydrocarbures dans le golfe du Saint-Laurent, enjeux sociaux, économiques et environnementaux, sous la direction de Archambault P, Schloss I R, Grant C et Plante S, Notre Golfe, Rimouski, Qc, Canada, 324 p.
- Bourgault D, Tremblay H, Schloss I, Plante S et Archambault P (2017) : “Commercially Sensitive” environmental data : A case study of oil seep claims for the Old Harry prospect in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada, Case Studies in the Environment, July 2017, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1525/cse.2017.sc.454841
- Bourgault D, Galbraith P S et Chavanne C (2016) : Generation of internal solitary waves by frontally forced intrusions in geophysical flows, Nature Communications, 7, 13606
- Grue J, Bourgault D et Galbraith P S (2016) : Supercritical dead water : effect of nonlinearity and comparison with observations, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 803, 436-465
- Archambault P et al (2016) : Notre Golfe : l’émergence d’un réseau intersectoriel pour l’étude de l’environnement socioécologique du golfe du Saint-Laurent, Le Naturaliste canadien, 140 (2), 41-44
- Cyr F, van Haren H, Mienis F, Duineveld D et Bourgault D (2016) : On the influence of cold-water coral mound size on flow hydrodynamics, and vice-versa, Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 775-783
- Bourgault D, Chavanne C, Dumont D, Morin É, Galbraith P S et Gostiaux L (2016) : Le point sur les marées d’équinoxes dans l’estuaire du Saint-Laurent, Le Naturaliste canadien, 140(1), 73-84
- Belzile M, Galbraith P S et Bourgault D (2016) : Water renewals in the Saguenay Fjord, Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 121, 638-657
- Bourgault D et Cyr F (2015) : Hypoxia in the St. Lawrence Estuary : How a coding error led to the belief that "physics control spatial patterns", PLoS ONE 10(9)
- Cyr F, Bourgault D, Galbraith P S et Gosselin M (2015) : Turbulent nitrate fluxes in the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary, Canada, Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 120, 2308–2330
- Cyr F, Bourgault D et Galbraith P S (2015) : Behavior and mixing of a cold intermediate layer near a sloping boundary, Ocean Dynamics, 65(3), 357-374
- Normandeau A, Lajeunesse P, St-Onge G, Bourgault D, St-Onge Drouin S, Senneville S et Bélanger S (2014) : Morphodynamics in sediment-starved inner-shelf submarine canyons (Lower St. Lawrence Estuary, Eastern Canada), Marine Geology, 357, 243-255
- Bourgault D, Cyr F, Dumont D et Carter A (2014) : Numerical simulations of the spread of floating passive tracer released at the Old Harry prospect, Environmental Research Letters, 9, 054001
- Bourgault D, Morsilli M, Richards C, Neumeier U et Kelley D E (2014) : Sediment resuspension and nepheloid layers induced by long internal solitary waves shoaling orthogonally on uniform slopes, Continental Shelf Research, 72, 21-33
- Salcedo-Castro J, Bourgault D, Bentley S et deYoung B (2013) : Non-hydrostatic modeling of cohesive sediment transport associated with a subglacial buoyant jet in glacial fjords : a process-oriented approach , Ocean Modelling, 63, 30-39
- Richards C, Bourgault D, Galbraith P S, Hay A et Kelley D E (2013) : Measurements of shoaling internal waves and turbulence in an estuary, Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, 1-14
- Bourgault D, Cyr F, Galbraith P S et Pelletier E (2012) : Relative importance of pelagic and sediment respiration in
causing hypoxia in a deep estuary, Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, C08033 - Bourgault D, Galbraith P S et Winkler G (2012) : Exploratory observations of winter oceanographic conditions in the Saguenay Fjord, Atmosphere-Ocean, 50 (1), 17-30
- Cyr F, Bourgault D et Galbraith P S (2011) : Interior versus boundary mixing of a cold intermediate layer, Journal of Geophysical Research, 116, C12029
- Bourgault D, Hamel C, Cyr F, Tremblay J-É , Galbraith P S, Dumont D et Gratton Y (2011) : Turbulent nitrate fluxes in the Amundsen Gulf during ice-covered conditions, Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L15602
- Salcedo-Castro J, Bourgault D et deYoung B (2011) : Circulation induced by subglacial discharge in glacial fjords : Results from idealized numerical simulations
Continental Shelf Research, 31, 1396-1406 - Bourgault D, Janes D C et Galbraith P S (2011) : Field observations of a large-amplitude internal wavetrain and its reflection off a steep slope, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 41, 586-600
- Bourgault D, Kelley D E et Galbraith P S (2008) : Turbulence and boluses on an internal beach, Journal of Marine Research, 66, 563-588
- Bourgault D (2008) : Shore-based photogrammetry of river ice, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 35, 80-86
- Bourgault D et Richards C(2007) : A laboratory experiment on internal solitary waves, American Journal of Physics, 75 (4), 1-5
- Bourgault D et Kelley D E (2007) : On the reflectance of uniform slopes for normally incident interfacial solitary waves, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 37 (5), 1156-1162
- Bourgault D, Blokhina M D, Mirshak R et Kelley D E (2007) : Evolution of a shoaling internal solitary wavetrain, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L03601, doi:10.1029/2006GL028462
- Bourgault D, Kelley D E et Galbraith P S (2005) : Interfacial solitary wave run-up in the St. Lawrence Estuary, Journal of Marine Research, 63, 1001-1015
- Bourgault D et Kelley D E (2004) : A laterally-averaged nonhydrostatic ocean model, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 21 (12), 1910-1924
- Bourgault D et Kelley D E (2003) : Wave-induced boundary mixing in a partially mixed estuary, Journal of Marine Research, 61 (5), 553-576
- Bourgault D, Saucier F-J et Lin C (2001) : Shear instability in the St. Lawrence Estuary, Canada : A comparison of fine-scale observations and estuarine circulation model results, Journal of Geophysical Research, 106, 9393-9409
- Bourgault D et Koutitonsky V G (1999) : Real-time monitoring of the freshwater discharge at the head of the St. Lawrence Estuary, Atmosphere-Ocean, 37, 203-220