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Reinhard Pienitz is a Full Professor in the Department of Geography within the Faculty of Forestry, Geography and Geomatics at University of Laval. He serves as Director of the Master's in Environmental Biogeosciences program and maintains his office in the Abitibi-Price Pavilion. His academic affiliations include being an Assistant Professor at the National Institute for Scientific Research (INRS) Water-Earth-Environment Section, and he is a regular member of the Centre for Nordic Studies (CEN), Centreau, and the TAKUVIK International Joint Unit (CNRS, France-Université Laval).
Dr. Pienitz specializes in biogeography, paleoecology, limnology, paleolimnology, paleoceanography, and geoarchaeology. His research focuses on reconstructing past environmental changes using lake sediments, particularly in Arctic and subarctic regions, with emphasis on climate change impacts, postglacial landscape evolution, and human-environment interactions. He has extensively studied diatom assemblages as paleoenvironmental indicators and has conducted significant research on the impacts of asbestos mining activities on lake ecosystems in Quebec.
His recent publications demonstrate strong trends in Arctic environmental reconstruction, with particular focus on diatom biogeography, paleohydrological pathways, and climate change impacts across northern ecosystems. His work spans multiple disciplines including paleolimnology, Quaternary science, and environmental pollution studies, with a geographic focus on Canadian Arctic regions, Quebec, and international sites including Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Dr. Pienitz has secured significant research funding including the Centre d'études nordiques (2022-2028), studies on postglacial landscapes in the Foxe Basin-Nettilling Lake region (2017-2025), and research on climate change impacts in the Canadian Arctic (2016-2025). He has supervised multiple graduate students to completion of their Master's and Doctoral degrees.
He is actively involved in professional organizations including the Arctic Institute of North America, the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), the Lake Saint-Augustin Watershed Council, and serves on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the National Asbestos Observatory.
