Louise Filion

Louise Filion (born 6 December 1945) is a Canadian professor of biogeography.

Life Filion was born in Montreal, Quebec on 6 December 1945, the daughter of Marguerite Bernier and Maurice Filion. She holds a bachelor's degree in geography, a master's degree in agriculture, and a Ph.D. in biology from Laval. She is the former director of the Geography department and Centre d'Études Nordiques at Laval University. Her appointment to Professor in the Geography department was a first for a woman at the university. Although she retired in September 2010 she remains an honorary member of the Centre for Northern Studies and has been designated professor emeritus.

Research

Dr. Filion has northern research experience, particularly in ecology and paleoecology of northern Quebec. 2010. Échantillonnage et datation dendrochronologiq ues. 2010. Dendroécologie des épidémies de la tenthrède du mélèze (Pristiphora erichsonii) dans l'est du Canada 2010, Tree-ring reconstructions in natural hazards research: a state-of-the-art. Springer book. 2010, La dendroécologie - Principes, méthodes et applications. Presses de l'Université Laval, 2011, False rings in the white pine (Pinus strobus) of the Outaouais Hills, Québec (Canada), as indicators of water stress (with Neil Marchand) 2011, Environmental Change in the Great Whale River Region, Hudson Bay: Five Decades of Multidisciplinary Research by Centre d'études Nordiques (CEN) 2013, Pre-European settlement paleoenvironments along the lower Saint-Charles River, Québec City (Canada) (with Querrec, Lydia; Auger, Réginald) 2014, Climate change and the forest sector: Perception of principal impacts and of potential options for adaptation (with Neil Marchand) 2014, Evidence for Changes in Paleoenvironments along the Lower Cap-Rouge River, Québec (Canada), in Relation to a High Water Stand during the Mid-Holocene Laurentian Transgression 2014, A dendroecological analysis of eastern hemlock and white pine in relation to logging in La Mauricie National Park (Québec, Canada). The Forestry Chronicle