Pierre Dumont

Administrator

Pierre Dumont (PhD, Environmental Sciences) has worked as a biologist for more than 50 years. He has served in the private sector, the Quebec public service (his last position: biologiste émérite), and in Canadian and European academia as an adjunct professor involved in training master’s and doctoral students. He was successively involved in impact assessments related to hydroelectric development in the James Bay territory, as well as in the protection, restoration, and management of aquatic habitats and species of the St. Lawrence River and its major tributaries, work carried out in close collaboration with national and international specialists at the Great Lakes scale. He also worked in France on the restoration of migratory fish species in precarious situations.

Recipient of the Gisèle-Lamoureux Award in the Nature and Technologies sector granted by the Fonds de recherche du Québec (team award, 2025), Honorary Graduate of the Université de Montréal (2008), Scientific Researcher Merit Award – International Symposium on Freshwater Management in the St. Lawrence–Great Lakes Basin (2007), and the Quebec Consulting Engineering Award – Environment Sector (team award, 2003), he has also contributed to the publication of about seventy articles in international scientific journals, several specialized book chapters and popular science articles, as well as a large number of scientific reports supporting decision-making related to the protection and restoration of freshwater aquatic environments.

Now retired, he continues to be involved in contemporary environmental issues. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Nature Québec (2023–2026), a member (since 2014) and chair (since 2024) of the Advisory Committee on Threatened or Vulnerable Wildlife Species (a committee appointed by the ministère de l’Environment, de la Lette contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs). He also serves as a scientific advisor to Indigenous communities in Quebec. From 2017 to 2025, he was a member of the Appalachian Corridor granting committee and, from 2013 to 2022, a member of the Environmental Advisory Committee of the municipality of Saint-Étienne-de-Bolton.