Currently Funded Research
Our research is funded by NSERC, FRQ, the Canada First Research Excellence Fund, Polar Knowledge Canada, and international programs including Nordforsk and Water4All.
Arctic freshwater food systems: Influence of warming winters and increased snow cover (FROST).
Rautio M (PI) with participants from Canada, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and USA.
Nordforsk/NFRF transatlantic cooperation on Arctic, 2025-2028.
Biogeochemical processes and redox dynamics under ice in arctic lakes.
NSERC Discovery Grant and Northern Research Supplement program, 2025-2030.
Projecting the response of economically relevant fish habitats to climate change using coupled river-lake models.
Couture RM (PI), Laurion I, St-Hilaire A, Enders E.
Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ), 2025-2028.
Reducing uncertainties on carbon cycling in Atlantic's North Western Seas (UNCERTAIN-SEA).
Tremblay JE (PI) et al.
Towards Climate Action Canada First Excellence Research Funds, 2024-2027.
Environmental dissemination of nanoplastics: Impact of pedoclimatic conditions and consequences on associated pollutants.
Larivière D (PI), Couture RM, Gigault J.
NSERC Alliance International, 2024-2027.
The mixed blessings of rare earth elements as critical minerals.
Dang H (PI), Fortin C, Thompson K, Watmough S, Couture RM.
NSERC Alliance Mission, 2024-2027.
Automated analysis of trace elements essential for life along the land-ocean continuum.
Couture RM (PI) et al.
Sentinelle Nord Canada First Excellence Research Funds, Acceleration funds, 2024-2025.
Managing Events and Extremes in Water Supplies.
Pierson D (PI) et al.
Water4All JPI Call - Management of water resources : resilience, adaptation & mitigation, 2023-2026.
Centre d'études nordiques (CEN).
Fortier R. (PI) et al.
Fonds de Recherche du Québec Nature et technologies (FRQNT), 2022-2028
Lake biogeochemical dynamics - the conveyor belt between physics and biology.
Couture RM (PI).
NSERC Discovery Grant and Northern Research Supplement program, 2019-2026.
See current listed project here
Biogeochemical processes and redox dynamics under ice in arctic lakes. NSERC Discovery Grant and Northern Research Supplement program, 2025-2030.
Arctic freshwater food systems: Influence of warming winters and increased snow cover (FROST). Rautio M (PI) with participants from Canada, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and USA. Nordforsk/NFRF transatlantic cooperation on Arctic, 2025-2028.
Projecting the response of economically relevant fish habitats to climate change using coupled river-lake models. Couture RM (PI), Laurion I, St-Hilaire A, Enders E. Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ), 2025-2028.
Reducing uncertainties on carbon cycling in Atlantic's North Western Seas (UNCERTAIN-SEA). Tremblay JE (PI) et al. Towards Climate Action Canada First Excellence Research Funds, 2024-2027.
Environmental dissemination of naonoplastics: Impact of pedoclimatic conditions and consequences on associated pollutants. Larivière D (PI), Couture RM, Gigault J. NSERC Alliance International, 2024-2027.
The mixed blessings of rare earth elements as critical minerals. Dang H (PI), Fortin C, Thompson K, Watmough S, Couture RM. NSERC Alliance Mission, 2024-2027.
Automated analysis of trace elements essential for life along the land-ocean continuum. Couture RM (PI) et al. Sentinelle Nord Canada First Excellence Research Funds, Acceleration funds, 2024-2025.
Managing Events and Extremes in Water Supplies. Pierson D (PI) et al. Water4All JPI Call - Management of water resources : resilience, adaptation & mitigation, 2023-2026.
Centre d'études nordiques (CEN). Fortier R. et al. Fonds de Recherche du Québec Nature et technologies (FRQNT), 2022-2028.
Lake biogeochemical dynamics - the conveyor belt between physics and biology. Couture RM (PI). NSERC Discovery Grant and Northern Research Supplement program, 2019-2026.
See our past project here
Last Ice Microbiomes and Arctic Ecosystem Health. Culley A (PI), Vincent W, Couture RM (Co-PI). Sentinel North Canada First Excellence Research Funds, 2020-2025.
A sequential sample digestion platform for understanding radiological, environmental, industrial, and geochemical processes. Larivière D (PI), Couture RM, Kolliopoulos G, LaFlamme C, Vaneeckhaute C. NSERC Research Tool and Instruments, 2023-2024.
Methane and sulfur dynamics in extreme environnements. Pellerin A (PI), Couture RM, Kamishny A, Orit S. Québec Ministry of International Relations, Québec-Israel collaboration, 2022-2024.
Forecasting tools and Mitigation options for diverse bloom-affected lakes. Baulch H (PI) et al. Global Water Future Canada First Excellence Research Funds, 2021-2024.
Ecosystems - Snow - ClimAte - PErmafrost feedbacks - 3 (ESCAPe-Arctic 3). Domine F (PI), Couture RM. Institut Polaire Français - Paul-Émile Victor, 2020-2024.
Impact of climate change on darkening of freshwater and on fish oxythermal habitats in the North. Laurion I (PI), St-Hilaire A, Bergeron N, Couture RM. Institut Nordique du Québec, 2020-2023.
The distinct and threatened core microbial genetic potential of the Arctic’s Last Ice Area. Girard C (PI), Culley A, Duchaine C, Rautio M, Warwick V, Roux S, Sullivan M, Canario J, Jungblut A, Couture RM. ArcticNET, 2019-2024.
Nunataryuk – Permafrost thaw and the changing Arctic coast: the MacKenzie delta and coastal waters sampling. Babin M (PI), Couture RM, Bélanger S, Chaillou G. ArcticNET, 2019-2023.
Chaire de recherche Sentinelle Nord en Géochimie des milieux aquatiques. Couture RM (PI). Sentinel North Canada First Excellence Research Funds, 2018-2024.
Étude du devenir des complexes de phosphore-lanthane dans les sédiments du Lac Bromont. Planas D (PI), Tellier E, Couture RM. Ministère de l'économie et de l'innovation du Québec, 2019-2021.
Carbon pool fingerprinting along gradient. Couture RM (PI). John-R.-Evans Leader Funds of the Canada Foundation for Innovation, 2019-2021.
Integration of climate seasonal prediction and ecosystem impact modeling for an efficient adaptation of water management to climate extreme events. Marce R (PI) et al. European Research Area for Climate Services (ERA4CS), 2017-2021.
Les mesures sylvicoles visant à pallie aux changements climatiques compromettent elle la qualité de l'eau ? Couture RM (PI) et De Wit H. Ministère des relations internationales et de la francophonie (Canadan) et Norden (Scandinavie), 2018-2020.
Legacy phosphorus in lake sediment - the last hurdle to overcome for sustainable lake restoration. Huser B (PI), Futter M, Couture RM. Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences, and Spatial Planning (Formas), 2016-2020.
Sub-Arctic Metal Mobility Study. Wolfe B (PI), Venkiteswaran J, English M, Schiff S, Hall R, Smith S, McGeer J, Whitfield C, Stevens K, Blais JM, Couture RM. Global Water Future Canada First Excellence Research Funds, 2017-2020.
Predicting lake responses to changes using near real-time models. Pierson D (PI) et al. Joint-Program Initiative (JPI) WaterWorks, 2016-2019.
An open access ePlatform for model-building at the river basin scale. Couture RM (PI), Larssen T, Futter M, Juselius J, Rankinen K. Nordforsk, Nordic eScience Globalisation Initiative (NeGI), 2015-2018.
Lakes in Transition. Couture RM (PI), deWit H, Moe J, Haande S, Anderson T, Prudhomme C. Norwegian Research Council, 2015-2018.