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Christine Michel is a researcher affiliated with Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Canada. Their work primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a strong emphasis on subfields such as Oceanography, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics covered in their research include the study of marine and coastal ecosystems, marine biology and ecology research, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, ocean acidification effects and responses, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, marine toxins and detection methods, and marine animal studies.

Christine Michel has published extensively in several scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Harmful Algae
  • Ecosphere
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Recent papers authored by Christine Michel include:

  • Three decades of Canadian marine harmful algal events: Phytoplankton and phycotoxins of concern to human and ecosystem health (2020, Harmful Algae)
  • Integrated Assessment of Ocean Acidification Risks to Pteropods in the Northern High Latitudes: Regional Comparison of Exposure, Sensitivity and Adaptive Capacity (2021, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • Biological Impact of Ocean Acidification in the Canadian Arctic: Widespread Severe Pteropod Shell Dissolution in Amundsen Gulf (2021, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • Harmful algae and climate change on the Canadian East Coast: Exploring occurrence predictions of Dinophysis acuminata, D. norvegica, and Pseudo-nitzschia seriata (2022, Harmful Algae)
  • The Gulf of St. Lawrence Biogeochemical Model: A Modelling Tool for Fisheries and Ocean Management (2021, Frontiers in Marine Science)

Frequent co-authors working alongside Christine Michel include:

  • Andrea Niemi
  • Joël Chassé
  • Steven H. Ferguson
  • Michael Scarratt
  • David J. Yurkowski

Best Publications

  • Arctic sea ice in transformation: A review of recent observed changes and impacts on biology and human activity

    Walter N. Meier;Greta K. Hovelsrud;Bob E.H. van Oort;Jeffrey R. Key

  • A novel chemical fossil of palaeo sea ice: IP25

    Simon T. Belt;Guillaume Massé;Steven J. Rowland;Michel Poulin

  • Global and regional drivers of nutrient supply, primary production and CO2 drawdown in the changing Arctic Ocean

    Jean-Éric Tremblay;Leif G. Anderson;Patricia Matrai;Pierre Coupel

  • Role of sea ice in global biogeochemical cycles: emerging views and challenges

    Martin Vancoppenolle;Klaus Martin Meiners;Klaus Martin Meiners;Christine Michel;Laurent Bopp

  • Prevalence, structure and properties of subsurface chlorophyll maxima in Canadian Arctic waters

    Johannie Martin;Jean-Éric Tremblay;Jonathan Gagnon;Geneviève Tremblay

  • Climatic and biological forcing of the vertical flux of biogenic particles under seasonal Arctic sea ice

    Martin Fortier;Louis Fortier;Christine Michel;Louis Legendre

  • Bloom dynamics in early opening waters of the Arctic Ocean

    Jean-Éric Tremblay;Christine Michel;Keith A. Hobson;Michel Gosselin

  • A biological consequence of reducing Arctic ice cover: arrival of the Pacific diatom Neodenticula seminae in the North Atlantic for the first time in 800 000 years

    Philip C. Reid;David G. Johns;Martin Edwards;Michel Starr

  • Climate forcing multiplies biological productivity in the coastal Arctic Ocean

    J.-É. Tremblay;S. Bélanger;D. G. Barber;M. Asplin

  • Variability in oceanographic and ecological processes in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

    C. Michel;R.G. Ingram;L.R. Harris

  • Variability of snow and ice thermal, physical and optical properties pertinent to sea ice algae biomass during spring

    C.J. Mundy;D.G. Barber;C. Michel

  • Environmental forcing of phytoplankton community structure and function in the Canadian High Arctic: contrasting oligotrophic and eutrophic regions

    M. Ardyna;M. Gosselin;C. Michel;M. Poulin

  • Carbon budget of sea‐ice algae in spring: Evidence of a significant transfer to zooplankton grazers

    C. Michel;L. Legendre;R. G. Ingram;M. Gosselin

  • Seasonal variation in benthic community oxygen demand: A response to an ice algal bloom in the Beaufort Sea, Canadian Arctic?

    Paul E. Renaud;Andrea Riedel;Christine Michel;Nathalie Morata

  • Calcium carbonate saturation states in the waters of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and the Labrador Sea

    Kumiko Azetsu-Scott;Allyn Clarke;Kelly Falkner;James Hamilton

  • Biogeochemistry of sea ice

    David N. Thomas;Stathys Papadimitriou;Christine Michel

  • Biogenic carbon flows through the planktonic food web of the Amundsen Gulf (Arctic Ocean): A synthesis of field measurements and inverse modeling analyses

    Alexandre Forest;Jean-Éric Tremblay;Yves Gratton;Johannie Martin

  • Modeling ice algal growth and decline in a seasonally ice‐covered region of the Arctic (Resolute Passage, Canadian Archipelago)

    Diane Lavoie;Diane Lavoie;Kenneth Denman;Kenneth Denman;Christine Michel

  • Influence of environmental factors on the development of bottom ice protist communities during the winter-spring transition

    Magdalena Rózańska;Michel Gosselin;Michel Poulin;Józef Maria Wiktor

  • Significance of sedimentation and grazing by ice micro- and meiofauna for carbon cycling in annual sea ice (northern Baffin Bay)

    Christine Michel;Torkel Gissel Nielsen;Christian Nozais;Michel Gosselin

  • Influence of snow cover and algae on the spectral dependence of transmitted irradiance through Arctic landfast first-year sea ice

    C. J. Mundy;J. K. Ehn;D. G. Barber;C. Michel

  • Seasonal study of sea-ice exopolymeric substances on the Mackenzie shelf: implications for transport of sea-ice bacteria and algae

    Andrea Riedel;Christine Michel;Michel Gosselin

  • The Biogeochemistry of sea ice.

    D.N. Thomas;S. Papadimitriou;C. Michel

Frequent Co-Authors

Michel Gosselin
Michel Gosselin Université du Québec à Rimouski
R. Flaminio
R. Flaminio National Institutes of Natural Sciences
A. Brillet
A. Brillet Université Côte d'Azur
M. Davier
M. Davier University of Paris-Saclay
A. Giazotto
A. Giazotto National Institute for Nuclear Physics
F. Marion
F. Marion Université Savoie Mont Blanc
J.-Y. Vinet
J.-Y. Vinet Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur

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