WATERS OF LIFE
CREDITS
Biophare gratefully acknowledges the financial investment by the Department of Canadian Heritage in the creation of this online presentation for the Virtual Museum Canada.
Biophare would also like to thank the following people and organizations for their contributions to the development of this virtual exhibition:
The Département de sciences biologiques de l’Université de Montréal, the Commission scolaire de Sorel-Tracy, Environment Canada and the Quebec Ministère du Développement durable, de l’Environnement et des Parcs
Paul Messier of the Société d'aménagement de la baie Lavallière (SABL) and Pierre Brousseau of Environment Canada, for allowing us to accompany them for avian fauna censuses taken in the marshes
Biophare virtual exhibition production team:
Marc Mineau, Biophare director: supervision, awarding of contracts, financial management, proofreading
Anne-Marie Dulude, biologist and coordinator/designer at Biophare: coordination, design, writing, editing translation
Catherine Blanchet: research and writing
Simon De Sousa: preliminary research
Sonia Boivin, administrative assistant at Biophare: proofreading
Julie Tellier, promotional officer at Biophare: promotion
Laurent Dulude-DeCelles, Randonnée Nature boat operator
Université de Montréal virtual exhibition production team:
Bernadette Pinel-Alloul, tenured professor and chair of the Département de sciences biologiques: supervision, coordinator of the Université de Montréal team, evaluation and validation of scientific information and exhibition design
Ginette Méthot, research associate at the Département de sciences biologiques: scientific advisor, writing, proofreading, editing translation
Cazacommunications production team
(computer graphics, editing, programming and multimedia integration):
Isabelle Caza, artistic director
Sabin Farley, Flash and HTML integrator
Sophie Paulhus, graphic designer
Pauline Gaultier, computer graphics
Patricia Leclaire, computer graphics
Photo and video production team:
Philippe Manning: photographer for exhibition photographs
Francine Ouellet: photographer for close-ups of mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles
Mario Cloutier: photographer for close-ups of mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles
Gaetan Dumais: camera operator, underwater camera operator and underwater photographer
Richard Lahaie: director, editor and camera operator for underwater images
Catherine Blanchet: camera operator for microscope images filmed in a lab at Université de Montréal
Geneviève Dulude-DeCelles: camera operator for images of organisms in an aquarium filmed at Université de Montréal and images filmed in the Baie de Lavallière
Louise Pelletier and Lucie Titley, Département de sciences biologiques de l’Université de Montréal: assistance with microscope equipment
Simon De Sousa and Saad Chidami: design of aquarium used in filming
Kamal: music (Shakuhaii Tales) for introductory film
Christian Gagnon: photograph of plume of wastewater emitted by the Montreal sewage treatment plant
Olivier Mineau: music for the introduction of the exhibition
External collaborators:
Julie Moisan, wildlife technician at the Ministère du Développement Durable, de l’Environnement et des Parcs: scientific consultant
Louise Cloutier, curator of the Ouellet-Robert collection at the Département de sciences biologiques de l’Université de Montréal: scientific consultant
Anne-Marie Tourville-Poirier: photographs of algae
Antonella Cattaneo: photographs of algae
Christiane Hudon: photographs of algae and aquatic plants
Stéphanie Hamelin: photographs of algae
Kara Goodwin: photographs of Water Chestnuts invading the Hudson River
Laure Tall, Département de sciences biologiques de l’Université de Montréal: consultant for locating photographs
Yves de Lafontaine, biologist at Environment Canada: scientific consultant and photographs of Mitten Crab, Quagga and Zebra Mussels
Pierre Magnan, Andrea Bertolo, Virginie Roy and Charles de Blois, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières: photographs of the research vessel Lampsilis
Andrea Bertolo: photograph of Lampsilis mussel
The four maps in the section titled "The origins of Lake Saint-Pierre" are based on maps drawn by Pierre-André Bourque of the Département de Géologie et de génie géologique de l’Université Laval for the website "Le retrait des glaces wisconsiniennes, les Grands Lacs, la Mer de Champlain et le fleuve Saint-Laurent."
Interview subjects:
Richard Carignan, tenured professor at the Département de sciences biologiques de l’Université de Montréal; Christiane Hudon, researcher at Environment Canada’s St. Lawrence Centre; Dolors Planas, tenured professor at the Département des sciences biologiques de l’Université du Québec à Montréal; Stéphanie Hamelin, doctoral student in biology at the Université du Québec à Montréal; Bernadette Pinel-Alloul, tenured professor and chair of the Département de sciences biologiques de l’Université de Montréal; Antonella Cattaneo, associate professor at the Département de sciences biologiques de l’Université de Montréal; Pierre Magnan, professor at the Département de chimie-biologie à l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières and Paul Messier, wildlife technician and director of the Société d’aménagement de la baie Lavallière.
Elisa Peters: translation
John Chétalat, Département de sciences biologiques de l’Université de Montréal: revision of part of the translation
Advisory committee:
Marc Mineau, managing director of Biophare
Anne-Marie Dulude, biologist in charge of the project at Biophare
Pierre Landry, chairman of the board, Corporation soreloise du patrimoine régional
Bernadette Pinel-Alloul, tenured professor and chair of the Département de sciences biologiques de l’Université de Montréal
Ginette Méthot, biologist, research associate at the Département de sciences biologiques de l’Université de Montréal
Christiane Hudon, researcher at Environment Canada’s St. Lawrence Centre
Alain Armellin, biologist, aquatic fauna and flora, Quebec Water Quality Monitoring and Surveillance Section, St. Lawrence Centre, Environment Canada
Lyne Pelletier, biologist at the Ministère du Développement durable, de l’Environnement et des Parcs
Nancy Desbiens, director of educational services at the Commission scolaire de Sorel-Tracy
