Claude Duguay Professor Director, UW Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3) Geography and Environmental Management Contact Information: Phone: +1-519-888-4567 ext. 33610 Office: EV 1 - 125 Email: crduguay(at)uwaterloo.ca

Degrees:

Ph.D.	University of Waterloo, Canada, 1989
M.A.	SUNY, United States, 1985
B.Sc.	Université de Montréal, Canada, 1983

Academic Honours:

• International Fulbright Senior Fellow and an Associate Fellow of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute

Research Interests:

Dr. Duguay's main research interests are in the areas of Climate-Cryosphere interactions, northern hydrology, microwave remote sensing, and numerical modelling. Recent field, remote sensing and modeling investigations have been in northern Canada, Alaska, and Siberia. Dr. Duguay is the founding director of UW's Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3).

On-going work includes:

• The development of remote sensing methods for mapping and monitoring freshwater ice and snow parameters, and frozen ground.
• The development and application of a numerical model for simulating lake ice growth for lakes of various sizes under contemporary and projected climate conditions.
• The development and analysis of historical databases for investigating the impact of climate variability and change on freshwater ice conditions in the Northern Hemisphere.
• Field, remote sensing, and numerical modeling experiments to acquire a detailed understanding of and simulate and forecast the role of lakes in the energy and water-balance of Arctic river basins.

Contact Claude Duguay for more information on research opportunities.

 

Professional Activiies

 

1. Member & Chair (2008-2010), Northern Research Supplements Committee, NSERC.
2. Co-chair (2008-), Task Force on Remote Sensing, International Permafrost Association (IPA).
3. Member (2008-), Polar Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) User Working Group (PoDAG), National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), U. Colorado Boulder.
4. Associate Editor (2011-2012), Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Permafrost.
5. Vice-President (2007-2011), International Commission on Remote Sensing (ICRS), International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS).
6. Head (2007-2011), Marine and Freshwater Ice Division, International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS).
7. Associate Editor (2007-2008), Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Permafrost.
8. Member (2006-), Mission Assessment Group (MAG), ColdRegions Hydrology High-resolution Observatory (CoReH2O) - Earth Explorer candidate mission of the European Space Agency (ESA).
9. Member and Lead of Freshwater Ice Component (2005-2007) - Integrated Global Observing Strategy (IGOS) – Cryosphere Theme. World Climate Research Programme/Climate & Cryosphere Initiative.
10. Science Review Panel Member (2006) - Government of Canada Program for the International Polar Year (IPY), Climate Change & Adaptation.
11. Panel Member (2006) - Arctic System Science Program (ARCSS) Synthesis, National Science Foundation.
12. Member, Science Steering and Editorial Committee (Annals of Glaciology) (2005-2007) – Conference on Cryospheric Indicators of Global Climate Change, Cambridge, England, 21–25 August 2006, International Glaciological Society.
13. Past-President (2006-2007) and President (2005-2006) - Eastern Snow Conference.

 

 

Selected Publications:

• Brown, L.C. and C.R. Duguay, 2011. A comparison of simulated and measured lake ice thickness using a Shallow Water Ice Profiler. Hydrological Processes, 25, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8087.
• Gunn, G.E., C.R. Duguay, C.P. Derksen, J. Lemmetyinen, and P. Toose, 2011. Evaluation of the Helsinki University of Technology’s modified snow emission model over lake ice using airborne passive microwave measurements. Remote Sensing of Environment, 115: 233-244, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2010.09.001.
• Brown, L.C. and C.R. Duguay, 2010. The response and role of ice cover in lake-climate interactions. Progress in Physical Geography, 34(5): 671-704, doi: 10.1177/0309133310375653.
• Brown, R.S., C.R. Duguay, R.P. Mueller, L.L. Moulton, P.J. Doucette, and J.D. Tagestad. 2010. Use of synthetic aperture radar to identify and characterize overwintering areas of fish in ice-covered arctic rivers: a demonstration with broad whitefish and their habitats in the Sagavanirktok River, Alaska. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 139:1711-1722, doi: 10.1577/T09-176.1.
• Kang,K.-K., C.R. Duguay, S.E. Howell, C.P. Derksen, and R.E.J. Kelly, 2010. Sensitivity of AMSR-E brightness temperatures to the seasonal evolution of lake ice thickness. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 7(4): 751-755, doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2010.2044742.
• Rott, H., S. Yueh, D. Cline, C. Duguay, R. Essery, C. Haas, M. Kern, G. Macelloni, E. Malnes, T. Nagler, J. Pulliainen, and H. Rebhan, 2010. Cold Regions Hydrology High-resolution Observatory for snow and cold land processes. Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Satellite Missions for Monitoring Water, Carbon, and Global Climate Change, 98(5): 752-765, doi: 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2038947.
• Hachem, S., M. Allard, and C.R. Duguay, 2009. Use of the MODIS land surface temperature product for permafrost mapping: an application in northern Quebec and Labrador. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 20: 407-416.
• Labrecque, S., D. Lacelle, C.R. Duguay, B. Lauriol, and J. Hawkings, 2009. Contemporary (1951-2001) evolution of lakes in the Old Crow Basin, northern Yukon, Canada: Remote sensing, numerical modeling, and stable isotope analysis. Arctic, 62(2): 225-238.
• Lauriol, B., D. Lacelle, S. Labrecque, C.R. Duguay, and A. Telka, 2009. Holocene evolution of lakes in the Bluefish Basin, northern Yukon, Canada. Arctic, 62(2): 212-224.
• Howell, S.E.L., C.R. Duguay, and T. Markus, 2009. Sea ice conditions and melt season duration variability within the Canadian Arctic Archipelago: 1979–2008. Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L10502, doi:10.1029/2009GL037681.
• Howell, S.E.L., L. C. Brown, K.-K. Kang, and C.R. Duguay, 2009. Variability in ice phenology on Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake,Northwest Territories, Canada, from SeaWinds/QuikSCAT: 2000-2006. Remote Sensing of Environment, 113: 816-834.
• Howell, S.E.L., A. Tivy, J.J. Yackel, B.T.G. Else, and C. R. Duguay, 2008. Changing sea ice melt parameters in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago: Implications for the future presence of multiyear ice. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, C09030, doi: 10.1029/2008JC004730.
• Rouse, W.R., P.D. Blanken, C.R. Duguay, C.J. Oswald, and W.M. Schertzer, 2008. Climate-lake interactions. Chapter 8 in Cold Region Atmospheric and Hydrologic Studies: The Mackenzie GEWEX Experience, Volume 2: Hydrologic Processes. Springer-Verlag, pp. 139-160.
• Rouse, W.R., J. Binyamin, P.D. Blanken, N. Bussières, C.R. Duguay, C.J. Oswald, W.M. Schertzer, and C. Spence, 2008. The Influence of lakes on the regional heat and water balance of the central Mackenzie RiverBasin. Chapter 18 in Cold Region Atmospheric and Hydrologic Studies: The Mackenzie GEWEX Experience, Volume 1: Atmospheric Dynamics. Springer-Verlag, pp. 309-325.
• Walter, K.M., M. Engram, C.R. Duguay, M.O. Jeffries, and F.S. Chapin III, 2008. The potential use of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for estimating methane ebullition from arctic lakes. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 44(2): 305-315.
• Prowse, T.D., Bonsal, B.R., C.R. Duguay, and M.P. Lacroix, 2007. River-ice break-up/freeze-up: A review of climatic drivers, historical trends, and future predictions. Annals of Glaciology, 46: 443-451.
• Prowse, T.D., B.R. Bonsal, C.R. Duguay, D.O. Hessen, and V. Vuglinsky, 2007. River and lake ice. Chapter 8 in Global Outlook for Ice and Snow, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 201-213.
• Atkinson,D.E., R. Brown, B. Alt, T. Agnew, J. Bourgeois, M. Burgess, C.R. Duguay, G. Henry, S. Jeffers, R. Koerner, A.G. Lewkowicz, S. McCourt, H. Melling, M. Sharp, S. Smith, A. Walker, K. Wilson, S. Wolfe, M.-k. Woo, and K. Young, 2006. Canadian cryospheric response to an anomalous warm summer. Atmosphere-Ocean, 44(4): 347-375.
• Bonsal, B.R., T.D. Prowse, C.R. Duguay, and M.P. Lacroix, 2006. Impacts of large-scale teleconnections on freshwater-ice duration over Canada. Journal of Hydrology, 330(1-2): 340-353.
• Duguay, C.R., T.D. Prowse, B.R.Bonsal, R.D. Brown, M.P. Lacroix, and P. Ménard, 2006. Recent trends in Canadian lake ice cover. Hydrological Processes, 20: 781-801.
• Rees, A., M.C. English, C.R. Derksen, A.E. Walker, and C.R. Duguay, 2006. Uncertainty in snow mass retrievals from passive microwave sensor data in lake-rich high latitude environments. Hydrological Processes, 20: 1019-1022.
• Duguay, C.R. and A. Pietroniro, 2005. Remote Sensing in Northern Hydrology: Measuring Environmental Change. Geophysical Monograph 163, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 160 pp.
• Duguay, C.R. and A. Pietroniro, 2005. Introduction. In Remote Sensing in Northern Hydrology: Measuring Environmental Change, Edited by Duguay, C.R. and A. Pietroniro, Geophysical Monograph 163, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, pp. 1-6.
• Duguay, C.R., T. Zhang, D.W. Leverington, and V.E. Romanovsky, 2005. Remote sensing of permafrost and seasonally frozen ground. In Remote Sensing in Northern Hydrology: Measuring Environmental Change, Edited by Duguay, C.R. and A. Pietroniro, Geophysical Monograph 163, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, pp. 91-118.
• Jeffries, M.O., K. Morris, and C. R. Duguay, 2005. Lake ice growth and decay in central Alaska, USA: observations and computer simulations compared. Annals of Glaciology, 40: 195-199.
• Morris, K., M.O. Jeffries, and C. R. Duguay, 2005. Model simulation of the effects of climate variability and change on lake ice in central Alaska, USA. Annals ofGlaciology, 40: 113-118.
• Rouse, W.R., C. Oswald, J. Binyamin, C. Spence, W.Schertzer P. Blanken, N. Bussières, and C.R. Duguay, 2005. Role of northern lakes in a regional energy balance.  Journal of Hydrometeorology, 6(3): 291-305.
• Scherer, D., D.K. Hall, V. Hochschild, M. König, J.-G. Winther, C.R. Duguay, F. Pivot, C. Mätzler, F. Rau, K. Seidel, R. Solberg, and A.E. Walker, 2005. Remote sensing of snow cover. In Remote Sensing in Northern Hydrology: Measuring Environmental Change, Edited by Duguay, C.R. and A. Pietroniro, Geophysical Monograph 163, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, pp. 7-38.
• Théau, J., D.R. Peddle, and C.R. Duguay, 2005. Spectral mixture analysis for mapping caribou lichen habitats in northern Quebec, Canada. Remote Sensing of Environment, 94(2): 232-243.

 

 

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Courses Taught:

• GEOG 271: Earth from Space Using Remote Sensing
• GEOG 316: Multivariate Statistics
• GEOG 457: GIS Project
• GEOG 602: Remote Sensing of Cold Regions
• GEOG 603: Remote Sensing and Earth System Science

 

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