Alexandre Florent Nolin
Postdoctorat
Département des sciences fondamentales, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (Canada)
alexandreflorent.nolin@uqat.ca
Associate Editor
Tree-Ring Research 
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o))))))) 2025 – on going Postdoctoral Researcher
Département des sciences fondamentales, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (Canada)
Laboratory: Hubert Morin, Yan Boucher
o)))))) 2023–2025 Postdoctoral Research Associate
Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, University of Arizona (USA)
Laboratory: Connie C. Woodhouse, Cody C. Routson
o))))) 2017–2022 Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences
Institut de Recherche sur les Forêts, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Canada)
Advisors: Yves Bergeron & Jacques C. Tardif
Committee: Etienne Boucher, Martin P. Girardin
Evaluation: Philippe Gachon, Scott St. George, Fabio Gennaretti
o)))) 2014–2016 Master’s degree in Environmental Sciences'
Institut des Sciences de l’Environnement, Sorbonne Universités Pierre-et-Marie-Curie Paris VI (France)
Laboratory: Mathieu SEBILO, Katell QUENEA
Professional Advisor'': Christian MARTIN
o))) 2013–2014 Bachelor’s degree (Licence 3) in Forest and water conservation and management'
Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université de Tours (France)
Advisors'': Pascale GUÊNET, Isabelle GAY-OVEJERO
Dissertation: Dynamique prévisible des formations végétales suite à une variation soudaine et pérenne du niveau de nappe alluviale 
o)) 2011–2013 Associate of Technical Arts (BTS) in water conservation and management'''
Ecole Edouard de Chambray (France)
o) 2009–2011 Associate of Technical Arts (BTS) in forest conservation and management'''
Ecole des Barres de Nogent-sur-Vernisson (France)
Thèmes de recherche
My research focuses on the development of multi-century chronologies of annually resolved tree-ring proxies to reconstruct hydroclimate, environmental processes and natural hazards.
Dendrochronology & Quantitative Wood Anatomy – Hydrology, Flood & Drought, Natural Hazards – Climate variability & Change – Forest Ecology & Riparian Forests
Publications
11. Wotherspoon, A., Nolin, A.F, Siegert, N.W., Dech, J., Tardif, J.C., D’Amato, A., Laganière J., River, R.D.R., Boudreault, L., Daigle., J., Benedict, L., Dufour-Pelletier, S., Duguay, C., Charette, G-E., Achim, A. (Accepted). A perspective on black ash decline in eastern North America: ecological insights, cultural importance and urgent research needs. Environmental Reviews.
10. Mehrvand, S., Nolin, A.F, Boucher, M-A., Kornelsen, K.C., Tardif, J.C. (Accepted). A novel approach to uncertainty-conscious long-term streamflow reconstruction in ungauged basin combining machine learning and dendro-hydrological indicators. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies.
9. (BOOK CHAPTER) Nolin, A.F, Benedict, L., Bergeron, Y., Boudreault, L., Costanza, K., Daigle, J.J., D’Amato, A.W., Dech, J., Engleken, P., Isabel, N., Grenier, P.A., Juanole, C., Mathieu, R.D.R., Siegert, N.W., Tardif, J.C., Wotherspoon, A. (Accepted). Black ash (Fraxinus nigra Marsh.). Updated Sylvics of North America Project (USNAP). Joint publication of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service – Natural Resources Canada – Comisión Nacional Forestal (Mexico)
8. Edwards J., Tintor W.L., Nolin, A.F, Woodhouse C.A., von Arx G., Anchukaitis K.J., (2025). Multiple elevation‐dependent climate signals from quantitative wood anatomical measurements of Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 130(1), e2024JG008307.https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JG008307
7. Nolin, A.F, Girardin M.P., Adamowski J.F., Barzegar R., Boucher M.A., Tardif J.C., Bergeron Y., (2023). Observed and projected trends in spring flood discharges for the Upper Harricana River, eastern boreal Canada. Journal of Hydrology : Regional Studies, 48, 101462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2023.101462
6. Nolin, A.F, Girardin M.P., Tardif J.C., Guo X.J., Conciatori F., Bergeron Y., (2022). A 247-years tree-ring reconstruction of spring temperature and relation to spring flooding in eastern boreal Canada. International Journal of Climatology, 42, 6479-6498. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7608 Open Access Data
5. Nolin, A.F, Tardif J.C., Conciatori F., Bergeron Y., (2021c). Flood ring production modulated by river regulation in eastern boreal Canada. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12, 757280. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.757280 Open Access Data
4. Tardif, J.C., Kames, S., Nolin, A.F, Bergeron, Y., (2021b) Earlywood vessels in black ash (Fraxinus nigra Marsh.) trees show contrasting sensitivity to hydroclimate variables according to flood exposure. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12, 754596. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.754596
3. Tardif, J.C., Dickson, H., Conciatori, F., Nolin, A.F, Bergeron, Y., (2021a). Are periodical (intra-annual) tangential bands of vessels in diffuse-porous tree species the equivalent of flood rings in ring-porous species: reproducibility and cause? Dendrochronologia, 70: 125889. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2021.125889
2. Nolin, A.F, Tardif J.C., Conciatori F., Bergeron Y., (2021b). Spatial coherency of the spring flood signal among major river basins of eastern boreal Canada inferred from flood rings. Journal of Hydrology, 596, 126084. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126084 Open Access Data
1. Nolin, A.F, Tardif J.C., Conciatori F., Meko D.M., Kames S., Bergeron Y., (2021a). Multi-century tree-ring anatomical evidence reveals increasing frequency and amplitude of spring flood in eastern boreal Canada. Global and Planetary Change, 199, 103444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103444 Open Access Data
Recorded Communications & Seminars (Selection)
Nolin, A.F. (2023). A 250-year perspective on high spring flows and climatic drivers in eastern boreal Canada from flood rings. Tree-Ring Seminars, College of Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. Nov. 15, 2023.
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