Dr Sébastien Lamontagne, research scientist.

Dr Sébastien Lamontagne: determining water requirements for riverine ecosystems

Dr Sébastien Lamontagne’s primary research areas include groundwater hydrology, environmental tracers and biogeochemistry.

• 9 September 2009 | Updated 14 October 2011

• Current activities
• Background
• Academic qualifications
• Achievements
• Professional activities

Current activities

Dr Sébastien Lamontagne’s primary research areas include groundwater hydrology, environmental tracers and biogeochemistry, with the general aim to understand how water regime changes impact on river and wetland ecosystems.

Dr Lamontagne leads two multidisciplinary projects within the Regional Water and the Healthy Water Ecosystem themes of the Water for a Healthy Country Flagship.

He co-leads the Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth (CLLAMMecology) research program, a multi-institutional research effort to understand the environmental water requirements of the Coorong, one of the most important estuarine ecosystems in Australia.

He also leads a project quantifying recharge rates in losing streams in the New South Wales Murray-Darling Basin, Australia.

Research topics of special interest have included:

• impact of salinisation on semi-arid floodplains
• environmental water requirements for groundwater-dependent ecosystems
• groundwater – surface water interactions.

Background

Dr Lamontagne joined CSIRO in 2000 after completing his studies and a postdoctoral fellowship overseas.

Academic qualifications

Dr Lamontagne has been awarded a:

• Bachelor of Science with Honours, Biology, from McGill University, Montreal, Canada in 1990
• Master of Science in Zoology from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada in 1993
• Doctor of Philosophy in Earth Sciences from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada in 1998.

Achievements

Dr Lamontagne is the author or co-author of 26 journal articles, 30 reports, three book chapters and 45 conference papers.

Dr Lamontagne received a CSIRO Land and Water Strategic Excellence Award in 2007 and was invited as a guest speaker at international conferences in 2008 and 2009.

Professional activities

Dr Lamontagne is the chairperson of the Hydrological Society of South Australia.

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