Current Postgraduate Students

Dr Patrice Carbonneau, B.Sc. (Sherbrooke), B.Sc.A. (Laval), M.Sc. (INRS-ETE), Ph.D. (INRS-ETE)

Lecturer in the Department of Geography

Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 41984

Fax: +44 (0)191 33 41801

Room number: S202

Contact Dr Patrice Carbonneau (email at patrice.carbonneau@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

I began my university studies with bachelors degrees in both physics (Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada) and engineering (Université Laval, Québec, Canada). These degrees gave me the technical skills and the mathematical background that have done much to shape my contributions to physical geography. I eventually came to fluvial geomorphology through the study of turbulence and sediment transport during my master’s degree (INRS-ETE, Québec, Canada). The study of a complex problem such as turbulence prompted an interest in complex phenomena in rivers and thus I undertook a Ph.D. (INRS-ETE, Québec, Canada) on the intergranular voidspaces that constitute the habitat of juvenile atlantic salmon. In addition to gaining an understanding of salmonid habitat, the requirements of my Ph.D. brought me to develop an expertise in the field of remote sensing applied to fluvial environments. Namely, during a Ph.D. internship as a visiting scholar in Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, I developed skills in digital photogrammetry which were completed with a second internship at the School of geography of the University of Leeds. My post-doctoral work, carried out jointly at the INRS-ETE in Quebec, the School of Geography at the University of Leeds and the department of geography of Durham university, built on my knowledge of remote sensing and salmonid habitat to develop pioneering methods for the catchment-scale characterization of salmonid habitat with high resolution airborne remote sensing methods.

Research Groups

Catchment, River and Hillslope Science (CRHS)

Supervises

Mr Joy Sanyal

Selected Publications

Books: edited

Carbonneau, P.E. & Piégay, H. (Forthcoming). Fluvial Remote Sensing for River Science and Management. Wiley.

Books: sections

Carbonneau, P.E. & Piégay, H. (Forthcoming). Future Prospects and challenges for River Scientists and Managers. In Fluvial Remote Sensing for River Science and Management. Carbonneau, P.E. & Piégay, H. Wiley.
Bergeron, N.E. & Carbonneau, P.E. (Forthcoming). Geosalar: Innovative Remote Sensing Methods for Spatially Continuous Mapping of Fluvial Habitat at Riverscape Scale. In Fluvial Remote Sensing for River Science and Management. Carbonneau, P.E. & Piégay, H. Wiley.
Carbonneau, P.E., Piégay, H., Lejôt, J., Dunford, R. & Michel, K. (Forthcoming). Hyperspatial Imagery in Riverine Environments. In Fluvial Remote Sensing for River Science and Management. Carbonneau, P.E. & Piégay, H. Wiley.
Carbonneau, P.E. & Piégay, H. (Forthcoming). The Growing Use of Imagery in Fundamental and Applied River Sciences. In Fluvial Remote Sensing for River Science and Management. In Fluvial Remote Sensing for River Science and Management. Carbonneau, P.E. & Piégay, H. Wiley.

Journal papers: academic

Carbonneau, P.E., Fonstad, M.A., Marcus, W.A. & Dugdale, S.J. (2012). Making riverscapes real. Geomorphology 137(1): 74-86.
Dugdale, S.J., Carbonneau, P.E. & Campbell, D. (2010). Aerial photosieving of exposed gravel bars for the rapid calibration of airborne grain size maps. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 35(6): 627-639.
Carbonneau, P.E., Dugdale, S.J. & Clough, S. (2009). An Automated Georeferencing Tool for Watershed Scale Fluvial Remote Sensing. River Research and Applications 26(5): 650-658.
Hardy, R.J., Best, J.L., Lane, S.N. & Carbonneau, P.E. (2009). Coherent flow structures in a depth-limited flow over a gravel surface the role of near-bed turbulance and influence of Reynolds number. Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface 114: Article Number: F01003.
James, T.D., Carbonneau, P.E. & Lane, S.N. (2007). Investigating the effects of DEM error in scaling analysis. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 73(1): 67-78.
Carbonneau, P.E., Lane, S.N. & Bergeron, N.E. (2006). Feature based image processing methods applied to bathymetric measurements from airborne remote sensing in fluvial environments. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 31(11): 1413-1423.
Carbonneau, P.E., Bergeron, N.E. & Lane, S.N. (2005). Automated grain size measurements from airborne remote sensing for long profile measurements of fluvial grain sizes. Water Resources Research 41(11): W11426.
Carbonneau P.E., Bergeron N.E. & Lane S.N. (2005). Texture based image segmentation applied to the quantification of superficial sand in salmonid river gravels. Earth Surface, Processes and Landforms 30: 121-127.
Carbonneau, P.E. (2005). The threshold effect of image resolution on image-based automated grain size mapping in fluvial environments. Earth Surface, Processes and Landforms 30: 1687-1693.
Carbonneau, P.E., Lane, S.N. & Bergeron, N.E. (2004). Catchment-scale mapping of surface grain size in gravel bed rivers using airborne digital imagery. Water Resources Research 40(7): W07202.
Carbonneau, P.E., Lane, S.N. & Bergeron, N.E. (2003). Cost-effective non-metric close-range digital photogrammetry and its application to a study of coarse gravel river beds. International Journal of Remote Sensing 24(14): 2837 – 2854.
Carbonneau, P.E. & Bergeron, N.E. (2000). The effect of bedload transport on mean and turbulent flow properties. Geomorphology 35(3-4): 267-278.

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