Position: Research Fellow
Address: Environmental
Research Institute, North Highland College - UHI,
Castle Street, Thurso, Caithness, KW14 7JD
Tel: +44 (0) 1847 889 599
Fax: +44 (0)1847 890 014
E-mail: Alexandre.Gagnon@thurso.uhi.ac.uk
Joined ERI: September 2006
Background
• PhD Geography, University of Toronto
• MSc Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta
• BSc (Honours) Physical Geography, Concordia University
Research Interests
• Assessment of the impacts of climate change and development of community-level adaptation strategies
• Climate predictability (seasonal to decadal time-scales)
• Applications of seasonal forecasts and the use of climate information in decision-making
• Climatic and environmental influences on health issues
Selected Publications
• Jones A., Wort U.U., Morse A.P., Hastings I.M., and A.S. Gagnon (in review). Climate Prediction of El Niño malaria epidemics in North West Tanzania.
• Gagnon AS and Gough WA (2006). East-west asymmetry in long-term trends of landfast ice thickness in the Hudson Bay region, Canada. Climate Research 32: 177-186.
• Gagnon AS and Gough WA (2005). Trends in the dates of ice freeze-up and break-up over Hudson Bay, Canada. Arctic 58: 370-382
• Gagnon AS and Gough WA (2005). Climate change scenarios for the Hudson Bay region: An intermodel comparison. Climatic Change 69: 269-297
• Gough WA, Gagnon AS, and HP Lau (2004) Interannual variability of Hudson Bay ice thickness. Polar Geography 28: 222-238
• Gagnon AS and Gough WA (2002). Hydro-climatic trends in the Hudson Bay region. Canadian Water Resources Journal 27: 245-262
• Gagnon AS, Smoyer-Tomic KE, and ABG Bush (2002). The El Niño Southern Oscillation and malaria epidemics in South America. International Journal of Biometeorology 46: 81-89
• Gagnon AS, Bush ABG, and KE Smoyer-Tomic (2001). Dengue epidemics and the El Niño Southern Oscillation. Climate Research 19: 35-43
Selected Presentations
• Royal Meteorological Society Biennial Meeting. June 3-6, 2007, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• World Climate Research Program (WCRP) Workshop on Seasonal Prediction. June 4-7, 2007, Barcelona, Spain
• Networking Meeting on Public Health Issues arising from Climate Change. March 11-14, 2007, Möschberg, Switzerland
• Franco-British Seminar for Young Scientists. Climate-Society Interactions – Case studies from Africa. January 9-12, 2006, Paris, France
• Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. May 25-29, 2004, Moncton (New Brunswick), Canada
• American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. March 14-19, 2004, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), U.S.A.
• Circumpolar Ecosystems International Workshop and Symposium. February 25-29, 2004, Churchill (Manitoba), Canada
Research funding
• European Community Initiative Interreg III B Northern Periphery Programme. CLIM-ATIC: Climate Change – Adapting to the Impacts by Communities in the Northern Peripheral Regions.
Studentships
• The influence of Sea Surface Temperatures on the seasonal and decadal predictability of Scottish climate, UHI Millennium Institute, co-supervised with Dr. David Woolf (UHI), and Dr. Christopher Merchant (University of Edinburgh)
