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André St-Hilaire is affiliated with the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique in Canada. Their research primarily falls within the field of Environmental Science, with 138 publications contributing to this area. They have specialized subfields of study including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Engineering, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change.

Throughout their career, André St-Hilaire has focused on several core topics related to environmental and aquatic sciences. These include Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Hydrological Forecasting Using AI, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Marine and fisheries research, Climate variability and models, and Physiological and biochemical adaptations.

Their recent published papers illustrate the range of their research focus. Notable publications include:

  • River temperature research and practice: Recent challenges and emerging opportunities for managing thermal habitat conditions in stream ecosystems (2020, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Regional thermal analysis approach: A management tool for predicting water temperature metrics relevant for thermal fish habitat (2022, Ecological Informatics)
  • Regional estimation of river water temperature at ungauged locations (2022, Journal of Hydrology X)
  • Impact of the future coastal water temperature scenarios on the risk of potential growth of pathogenic Vibrio marine bacteria (2020, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science)
  • Using the ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis datasets for river water temperature modelling in a data-scarce region (2022, Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques)

André St-Hilaire frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Their frequent co-authors include Taha B. M. J. Ouarda, Normand Bergeron, Zina Souaissi, Daniel Caissie, and Habiba Ferchichi.

Their work appears in various publication venues, with multiple papers published in:

  • Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • River Research and Applications
  • Water Quality Research Journal
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • A review of statistical methods for the evaluation of aquatic habitat suitability for instream flow assessment

    Behrouz Ahmadi-Nedushan;André St-Hilaire;Michel Bérubé;Élaine Robichaud

  • Identification of hydrological trends in the presence of serial and cross correlations: A review of selected methods and their application to annual flow regimes of Canadian rivers

    M.N. Khaliq;M.N. Khaliq;T.B.M.J. Ouarda;P. Gachon;L. Sushama

  • Automated regression-based statistical downscaling tool

    Masoud Hessami;Philippe Gachon;Taha B. M. J. Ouarda;André St-Hilaire

  • A Review of Statistical Water Temperature Models

    Loubna Benyahya;Daniel Caissie;André St-Hilaire;Taha B.M.J Ouarda

  • Environmental flows and water governance: managing sustainable water uses

    Claudia Pahl-Wostl;Angela Arthington;Janos Bogardi;Stuart E. Bunn

  • Estimation of water quality characteristics at ungauged sites using artificial neural networks and canonical correlation analysis

    B. Khalil;T.B.M.J. Ouarda;T.B.M.J. Ouarda;A. St-Hilaire

  • Flood processes in Canada: Regional and special aspects

    James M. Buttle;Diana M. Allen;Daniel Caissie;Bruce Davison

  • Stochastic modelling of water temperatures in a small stream using air to water relations

    Daniel Caissie;Nassir El-Jabi;André St-Hilaire

  • Temporal variability of thermal refuges and water temperature patterns in an Atlantic salmon river.

    Stephen J. Dugdale;Normand E. Bergeron;André St-Hilaire

  • Uncertainty analysis of statistically downscaled temperature and precipitation regimes in Northern Canada.

    Yonas B. Dibike;Philippe Gachon;André St-Hilaire;Taha B. M. J. Ouarda

  • Spatial distribution of thermal refuges analysed in relation to riverscape hydromorphology using airborne thermal infrared imagery

    Stephen J. Dugdale;Normand E. Bergeron;André St-Hilaire

  • Data-based comparison of seasonality-based regional flood frequency methods

    Taha B. M. J. Ouarda;Juraj M. Cunderlik;André St-Hilaire;Marc Barbet

  • River temperature research and practice: Recent challenges and emerging opportunities for managing thermal habitat conditions in stream ecosystems.

    Valerie Ouellet;André St-Hilaire;Stephen J. Dugdale;David M. Hannah

  • A Nonstationary Extreme Value Analysis for the Assessment of Changes in Extreme Annual Wind Speed over the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada

    Y. Hundecha;A. St-Hilaire;T. B. M. J. Ouarda;S. El Adlouni

  • Predicting river water temperatures using stochastic models : case study of the Moisie River (Québec, Canada)

    Behrouz Ahmadi-Nedushan;André St-Hilaire;Taha B. M. J. Ouarda;Laurent Bilodeau

  • Water temperature modelling in a small forested stream: implication of forest canopy and soil temperature

    André St-Hilaire;Guy Morin;Nassir El-Jabi;Daniel Caissie

  • A Classification of Stream Water Temperature Regimes in the Conterminous USA

    A. Maheu;N. L. Poff;A. St-Hilaire;A. St-Hilaire

  • A statistical approach for the rationalization of water quality indicators in surface water quality monitoring networks

    B. Khalil;B. Khalil;T.B.M.J. Ouarda;A. St-Hilaire;F. Chebana

  • Assessment of the impact of meteorological network density on the estimation of basin precipitation and runoff: a case study

    André St-Hilaire;Taha B. M. J. Ouarda;Marius Lachance;Bernard Bobée

  • Daily river water temperature forecast model with a k‐nearest neighbour approach

    André St‐Hilaire;André St‐Hilaire;Taha B. M. J. Ouarda;Zoubeida Bargaoui;Anik Daigle;Anik Daigle

Frequent Co-Authors

Taha B. M. J. Ouarda
Taha B. M. J. Ouarda Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Yves Gratton
Yves Gratton Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Paul H. Whitfield
Paul H. Whitfield University of Saskatchewan
Richard A. Cunjak
Richard A. Cunjak University of New Brunswick
Serge Payette
Serge Payette Université Laval
Donald H. Burn
Donald H. Burn University of Waterloo
John W. Pomeroy
John W. Pomeroy University of Saskatchewan
Christopher Spence
Christopher Spence Environment and Climate Change Canada
Michelle Garneau
Michelle Garneau University of Quebec at Montreal
David M. Hannah
David M. Hannah University of Birmingham

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