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Overview

Alain Tremblay is affiliated with the University of Quebec at Montreal in Canada. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences along with Environmental Science. Within these fields, Tremblay's work focuses on subfields such as Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Atmospheric Science, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main research topics covered by Tremblay include Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Mercury impact and mitigation studies, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, and Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Tremblay are Morgann Perrot, Joshua H.F.L. Davies, François Bilodeau, Adina Bogatu, and Jean H. Bédard.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Tremblay include:

  • Timing and duration of Archean orogenic gold deposits in the Bourlamaque pluton, Val d'Or mining camp, Abitibi, Canada, 2020, Ore Geology Reviews
  • Mobilization and Transformation of Mercury Across a Dammed Boreal River Are Linked to Carbon Processing and Hydrology, 2020, Water Resources Research
  • The Abitibi-Opatica transition, Superior Province, Quebec, Canada: Structural analysis, 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology and implications for Archean tectonics, 2022, Precambrian Research
  • Multi-year carbon dioxide flux simulations for mature Canadian black spruce forests and ombrotrophic bogs using Forest-DNDC, 2024, Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Mercury Export From Freshwater to Estuary: Carbocentric Science Elucidates the Fate of a Toxic Compound in Aquatic Boreal Environments, 2021, Frontiers in Environmental Science

Tremblay publishes frequently in venues such as Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Precambrian Research, Gondwana Research, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Water Resources Research.

Best Publications

  • Lakes and reservoirs as regulators of carbon cycling and climate

    Lars J. Tranvik;John A. Downing;James B. Cotner;Steven A. Loiselle

  • Carbon dioxide and methane emissions and the carbon budget of a 10-year old tropical reservoir (Petit Saut, French Guiana)

    Gwenaël Abril;Frédéric Guérin;Frédéric Guérin;Sandrine Richard;Robert Delmas

  • Pelagic Food Chain Structure in Ontario Lakes: A Determinant of Mercury Levels in Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush)

    Gilbert Cabana;Alain Tremblay;Jacob Kalff;Joseph B. Rasmussen

  • Gas transfer velocities of CO2 and CH4 in a tropical reservoir and its river downstream

    Frédéric Guérin;Frédéric Guérin;Gwenaël Abril;Dominique Serça;Claire Delon

  • Greenhouse gas emissions-- fluxes and processes : hydroelectric reservoirs and natural environments

    Alain Tremblay

  • Mantle petrology and mineralogy of the Thetford Mines Ophiolite Complex

    Philippe Pagé;Jean H. Bédard;Jean-Michel Schroetter;Alain Tremblay

  • The net carbon footprint of a newly created boreal hydroelectric reservoir

    Cristian R. Teodoru;Cristian R. Teodoru;Julie Bastien;Marie-Claude Bonneville;Paul A. del Giorgio

  • Evidence for forearc seafloor-spreading from the Betts Cove ophiolite, Newfoundland: oceanic crust of boninitic affinity

    J.H. Bédard;K. Lauzière;A. Tremblay;A. Sangster

  • Why are dwarf fish so small? An energetic analysis of polymorphism in lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis)

    Marc Trudel;Alain Tremblay;Roger Schetagne;Joseph B. Rasmussen

  • Estimating food consumption rates of fish using a mercury mass balance model

    Marc Trudel;Alain Tremblay;Roger Schetagne;Joseph B. Rasmussen

  • Tectonic evolution of the Quebec-Maine Appalachians; from oceanic spreading to obduction and collision in the Northern Appalachians

    Nicolas Pinet;Alain Tremblay

  • Nitrous oxide emissions from tropical hydroelectric reservoirs

    Frédéric Guérin;Frédéric Guérin;Gwenaël Abril;Alain Tremblay;Robert Delmas

  • Improving the accuracy of electricity carbon footprint: Estimation of hydroelectric reservoir greenhouse gas emissions

    A. Levasseur;S. Mercier-Blais;Y.T. Prairie;A. Tremblay

  • GHG Emissions from Boreal Reservoirs and Natural Aquatic Ecosystems

    Alain Tremblay;Jean Therrien;Bill Hamlin;Eva Wichmann

  • Tectonometamorphic evolution of the southern Quebec Appalachians: 40Ar/39Ar evidence for Middle Ordovician crustal thickening and Silurian–Early Devonian exhumation of the internal Humber zone

    Sébastien Castonguay;Gilles Ruffet;Alain Tremblay;Gilbert Féraud

  • Total mercury and methylmercury fluxes via emerging insects in recently flooded hydroelectric reservoirs and a natural lake

    Alain Tremblay;Louise Cloutier;Marc Lucotte

  • Annual follow-up of gross diffusive carbon dioxide and methane emissions from a boreal reservoir and two nearby lakes in Québec, Canada

    M. Demarty;J. Bastien;A. Tremblay

  • Methylmercury in a benthic food web of two hydroelectric reservoirs and a natural lake of Northern Québec (Canada)

    A. Tremblay;M. Lucotte;I. Rheault

  • Mercury in the Biogeochemical Cycle

    Marc Lucotte;Roger Schetagne;Normand Thérien;Claude Langlois

  • Do Hydroelectric Reservoirs Emit Greenhouse Gases

    A. Tremblay;M. Lambert;L. Gagnon

  • Accumulation of total mercury and methyl mercury in insect larvae of hydroelectric reservoirs

    A Tremblay;M Lucotte

  • Greenhouse gas emissions-- fluxes and processes

    Alain Tremblay;Louis Varfalvy;Charlotte Roehm;Michelle Garneau

Frequent Co-Authors

Nigel T. Roulet
Nigel T. Roulet McGill University
Marc Lucotte
Marc Lucotte University of Quebec at Montreal
Jean H. Bédard
Jean H. Bédard Geological Survey of Canada
Gilles Ruffet
Gilles Ruffet University of Rennes
Yves T. Prairie
Yves T. Prairie University of Quebec at Montreal
Edward A. Cloutis
Edward A. Cloutis University of Winnipeg
Michelle Garneau
Michelle Garneau University of Quebec at Montreal
Kimberly Strong
Kimberly Strong University of Toronto
James F. Bell
James F. Bell Arizona State University
Lyle G. Whyte
Lyle G. Whyte McGill University

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