Julie Talbot

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Prof, directrice du département de géographie @UMontreal | Wetland science, biogeochemistry, Anthropocene, environmental impact of research | En français and in English

A focused, baseball cap-wearing student coring a tree with a pressler corer.
Petite salle avec beaucoup de gens pour la protection du parc Jarry
Invitation à une mobilisation citoyenne le 11 juillet à 10h30 au chalet près ze St-Laurent au parc Jarry
A group of girls playing baseball
These are cute drosera plants. They are carnivorous and live in peatlands. The picture shows these red plants that have a rounded shape and sticky tentacles. They are about 3 cm high.
A sample of beautifully clear handwriting on an exam copy. That student should have their own font.
Two very dedicated students working in awful conditions to measure peat depth is a fen. It was a hot day and bugs were a pain. Blue sky with some clouds. One student is pulling a metal rod from the peat.
Coastal landscape of the North Coast region in eastern Quebec. End of day light, sedges in the foreground, St Lawrence gulf in the background with a few islands in the distance
Screenshot of Radio-Canada's website showing the diffusion of the hockey game in Inuktitut and Atikamekw
Two people getting ready to core a peatland, an important RESERVOIR of carbon.
A nice deep blue pond in a peatland. Sparse spruce trees in the background
Glass buildings with a paved path in between (gray, with blue lines)
A group of students sitting and standing on a boardwalk in a middle of a swamp. Trees are in the background, they are stating to turn yellow and orange, most are still green. The sky is blue.
Drawings of an array of reptiles in black and white with a sepia background that screams "old scientific journal article".
Hikers on a narrow trail right next to a cliff approaching a bigger cliff. They did not fall. Vegetation is low and green. Basalt cliffs are lightly covered in moss. No sign of Trump anywhere.
Video showing a boreal forest canopy and then people digging a soil pit.
A student sitting in front of a very intimidating microprobe, a machine that can measure the elemental composition of small samples of minerals and glass from volcanic eruptions. The student is operating a joystick and other buttons, sitting in front of old school screens. The probe is in the background.
A person sampling water in a peatland pond. There is a beautiful gray sky, a pond in the foreground, and the vegetation is green and brown-ish a d low-lying. We can see spruce trees in the background.
A row of bikes in am urban landscape, with a bit of greenery in the background.
Bright yellow sun rising over an ombrotrophic peatland located just outside Havre-St-Pierre in northeastern Quebec. There are shrubs in the foreground, and low vegetation and ponds in the background, all flooded with yellow light.
Young scientist smiling (even though the rain is pouring), standing in front of the Kluane landscape in the Yukon There are fireweeds in the foreground, mountains in the background, a big lake and white spruce as far as the eye can see. That scientist is now a PhD !
Calm lake surrounded by hills. The sky is blue, with a few clouds, and is reflected on the lake surface. The soft light indicates that it is likely the end of a nice summer day. How much carbon is stored in such a landscape?
The famous dog in a house on fire having a coffee meme. The dog (me) smiles in the middle of the flames because they have a new paper out
A freshly groomed cross-country skiing trail. There is a small patch of trees in the distance and a building, giving a hint that we are in the middle of a city. Otherwise, no human in sight.
Schematic showing the underlying causes of the biodiversity crisis, values and behaviour as indirect drivers and direct drivers (climate change, pollution, etc).
Vue d'une rue montréalaise. Des voitures qui se reposent. Une piste cyclable toujours ensevelie. Un trottoir aux allures de parcours extrême. Un sac de poubelle abandonné dans un banc de neige.
Soir post-tempête à Montréal. Piste cyclable entièrement recouverte de neige. Cadavres de voitures tristes abandonnés dans la neige.
Luke Skywalker riding a majestic tauntaun in the snow
Sunset over snowy fields. The sky is dramatic with hues of orange and yellows.
Bog in early winter. There are shrubs in the foreground with a thin snow layer underneath. Trees are in the distance. A few students are walking towards the trees. The sky is cloudy.
A figure from the Transformative change report summary by IPBES showing the underlying causes (capitalism, nature-people disconnection) of nature's decline
Map of carbon density in different compartments of a boreal watershed (forests, lakes, wetlands)
Couverture d'un livre sur les fausses nouvelles de Élise Gravel, des culottes à l'allure sympa terrifient les futurs voteurs du parti conssrvateur du Canada.
A small wetland with sedges crossed by a partially flooded boardwalk, a mountain top in the background. The sky is blue with a few fluffy clouds.
Researchers taking samples in a natural peatland pond with calm waters under a blue sky
A pond in a peatland in winter. There is a light snow cover on the ground and trees in the background.
Overview of wetland vegetation with shrubs in rhe foreground and sparse trees further
Swamp with trees of different sizes, lots of green vegetation and water pooling on the ground.