Nigel Roulet

Background

About Nigel Roulet

Dr. Nigel T. Roulet is a James McGill Professor of Biogeosciences in the Department of Geography. He was the Director of the McGill School of Environment from 2003 to June 2008, Director of the Centre for Climate and Global Change Research at McGill University from 1996 until 2002, and is currently the Chair of the Department of Geography. He was the Group Chair of the Geosciences for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s Discovery Grants and Scholarships program. Nigel’s research interests focus on the interactions among hydrology, climatology, and ecosystems processes in peatlands and forested catchments of the temperate, boreal, and arctic regions. He has published over 180 scientific papers, book chapters and monographs and was a contributing author to the 2nd through 4th scientific assessments of climate change by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Nigel also recently served as a member of the Ontario Far North Act Science Advisory Panel (2008-2010). His current research is on the effect of the extraction of peat and peatland restoration on greenhouse gas emissions, and the self-organization and resilience of peatland landscapes such as the Hudson Bay Lowlands.