Assistant Professor, Program Chair of the Environment and Sustainability Program

Program: Cross-appointment Environment and Sustainability AND Environmental Science

Email: couelletdall@mun.ca

Office: AS 236

 

Credentials

B.Sc. Laval, M.Sc and Ph.D. McGill University (Geography)

 

Research Interests

Cumulative Impacts, Socio-environmental Systems, Ecosystem Services, GIS, Impact Assessment

 

Teaching

Impact Assessments, Global Water Resources, GIS, Physical Geography

 

Representative scholarly contributions

Dallaire C.O., Jekanowski R.W., Roberts J. 2025. “Left behind: A critical assessment of gender equity in Project Nujio'qonik's environmental impact statement in the context of Newfoundland's wind-to-hydrogen industry”. Applied Energy. Volume 394 (125964). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125964

Dallaire, C.O., Madzarevic, A., Silver D., and Ryan S. 2024. “Review and classification of historical valued components and indicators in the Lower James Bay Region of Ontario and Quebec, Canada, to support cumulative effects science at Natural Resources Canada”. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 42(4), 355–364. https://doi.org/10.1080/14615517.2024.2383818

Duarte G., Schuster R., Edwards M., Ouellet-Dallaire C., Vári, Á. and M. Mitchell. 2024. “Natural Ecosystems’ Crucial Role in Canadian Flood Prevention”. Ecosystem Services 70:101670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2024.101670

Ouellet Dallaire C., Lehner L., and Peres-Neto P. (2023). River reach types as large-scale biodiversity proxies for management: The case of the Greater Mekong Region, Ecological Indicators 146: 109907. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.109907

Mitchell, M., Schuster, R., Jacob, A., Hanna, D., Ouellet Dallaire, C., Raudsepp-Hearne, C., Bennett, E., Lehner, B., and Chan, K. (2021). Identifying key ecosystem service providing areas to inform national-scale conservation planning. Environmental Research Letters 16:014038. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abc121

Ouellet Dallaire, C., B. Lehner, R. Sayre, and M. Thieme. 2019. “A multidisciplinary framework and application of a global river reach classification at high spatial resolution." Environmental Research Letters 14:024003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aad8e9

Ouellet Dallaire, C., B. Lehner, and I. Creed. 2019. “Multidisciplinary classification of Canadian river reaches to support the sustainable management of freshwater systems.” Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Published Online July 2019. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2018-0284

Linke S., B. Lehner, C. Ouellet Dallaire, J. Ariwi, G. Grill, M. Anand, P. Beames, V. Burchard-Levine, S. Maxwell, H. Moidu, F. Tan and M. Thieme. 2019. “Global hydro-environmental sub-basin and river reach characteristics at high spatial resolution.” Scientific Data 6(283). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0300-6

 

Current research projects and grants

NSERC Discovery Grant: “Interdisciplinary and interscalar modelling of riverine ecosystem services to support cumulative impact assessment in Canadian watersheds”

Green Transition Funds – Ministry of Energy, Technology and Innovation: “Socio-economic Innovation Hub for a just and green transition”

NRCAN Early Intervention Strategy for Spruce Budworm Phase III – Small Scale Research Program Canadian Forest Service: “Designing regional and local scale indicators to quantify the impacts of SBW outbreak in Western Newfoundland on cultural ecosystem services”

Nature Conservancy Canada Grant: “Using an ecosystem services and hydrological connectivity approach to flooding to identify vulnerable areas at the Canadian scale”