Clément Chion

Professor in Socio-ecological Systems Modeling

clement.chion@uqo.ca mail_outline
819-595-3900 poste 2966

Research themes

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Spatiotemporal multiagent modeling, serious games, artificial intelligence, socio-ecological systems, decision-making, conservation of natural resources, sustainable development, multi-use forest management.

Education

• 2016 : Postdoctorate in Socio-ecological Systems Modeling – Université du Québec en Outaouais
• 2012 : Postdoctorate in Complex Systems Modeling – Université de Montréal
• 2006-2011 : PhD in Engineering – École de technologie supérieure (Montreal)
• 2004-2005 : Master of Engineering – École de technologie supérieure (Montreal)
• 2000-2003 : Bachelor of Engineering – Institut des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes (France)

Description of research

My research focuses on three main areas:

• Modeling and simulation of dynamic socio-ecological systems (also called coupled human-nature systems) at the individual level;
• Characterization and modeling of decision-making in the context of interactions between human activities and ecosystems;
• Participatory management process support through the co-development of consultation support systems (eg serious games) and decision support systems (eg multi-agent models);

I am also interested in using artificial intelligence to extract information on biological and natural systems to improve management or conservation.

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  • Chion, C ., Turgeon, S., Cantin, G., Michaud, R., Ménard, N.,  et al. 2018. A voluntary conservation agreement reduces the risks of lethal collisions between ships and whales in the St. Lawrence Estuary (Québec, Canada): From co-construction to monitoring compliance and assessing effectiveness. PloS one, septembre 2018
  • Chion, C., Lagrois, D.,  Dupras, J., Turgeon, S., McQuinn, I.H., et al. 2017. Underwater acoustic impacts of shipping management measures: Results from a social-ecological model of boat and whale movements in the St. Lawrence River Estuary (Canada)Ecological modelling 324 : 72-87
  • Chion, C., Cantin, G., Dionne, S., Dubeau, B., et al. 2013. Spatiotemporal modelling for policy analysis: application to sustainable management of whale-watching activities. Marine Policy 38 : 151-162
  • Chion, C.,  Lamontagne, P., Turgeon, S., Parrott, L., et al. 2011. Eliciting cognitive processes underlying patterns of human–wildlife interactions for agent-based modelling. Ecological Modelling 222(14) : 2213-2226
  • Chion, C ., Landry, J.A., Da Costa, L .2008. A genetic-programming-based method for hyperspectral data information extraction: Agricultural applications. IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing 46 (8) : 2446 – 2457
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  Currently managing the following projects:

  • A scientific program on the reduction of underwater noise in the critical habitat of the St. Lawrence beluga (MFFP funding, $ 2.1M 2018-2023);
  • A project to determine the mental models of stakeholders in a multipurpose forest management project in the context of climate change (SSHRC funding, $ 47K, 2018-2020);
  • A project to characterize navigation activities in fish habitat in the St. Lawrence (MFFP funding, $ 20K, 2019).

  Actively involved in two other projects:

  • Development of a serious game platform to promote the multi-use development of the CTEL (Laurentides) forest territory in the context of climate change;
  • Co-construction of conditions favouring the social acceptability of an integrated development of the natural environment of the linear park Le P’tit Train du Nord.
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  Étudiants actuels

  Stagiaires postdoctoraux

  • Adrien Guetté

  Maîtrise

  • Vinca Buttin

  Étudiants diplômés

  Maîtrise

  • 2015-2017 Frédérique Pellerin-Catelier
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  • Stage postdoctoral: Analyses socio-économiques de mesures d’atténuation du bruit sous-marin des navires marchands dans l’habitat essentiel du béluga du Saint-Laurent