Mr. Claude Hillaire-Marcel

Claude Hillaire-Marcel, Titulaire of the Chaire en environnement, Université du Québec à Montréal, is one of the leading specialists in environmental isotope geochemistry in North America. He established the subject in Quebec, founding the GEOTOP laboratory there, and has published on a wide range of applications including human, animal and plant physiology and nutrition. His chief interests are in Quaternary chronology and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. He has made many important new discoveries in the field in Quebec and Labrador and, more recently, in east Africa. He is a pioneer of Th/U dating and stable isotope studies of precipitate, clastic and organic sediments.