In brief
Dr. Rautio holds the Canada Research Chair in Boreal and Polar Aquatic Ecology which builds upon her extensive experience working on lakes in the Canadian Subarctic (Northern Quebec), Arctic (Cambridge Bay) and High Arctic (Resolute, Lake Hazen, Ward Hunt), Alaska (Toolik), and Fennoscandia (Kilpisjärvi). She also conducts research on boreal lakes (Saguenay) and the St Lawrence River.
She is working closely with Hunters and Trappers Association in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, and samples lakes where the local community has seen a change in fish numbers, taste or health.
Research interests
food web interactions · winter limnology · plankton · fatty acids · stable isotopes · dissolved organic carbon · land-lake interactions · boreal and polar ecosystem functioning · under ice ecology
Infrastructure
Dr. Rautio leads the fatty acid and aquatic analytical laboratory at UQAC.
Projects
- Baseline studies and long-term freshwater monitoring program in the CHARS Experimental and Reference Area (ERA) · Cambridge Bay
Leads Polar Knowledge Canada projects in the Canadian Arctic on ecosystem health of freshwaters
Co-leads ArcticNet and NSERC Strategic Partnership projects in the Canadian Arctic
Scientific leadership and collaborative network
- Member of IASC program Terrestrial Multidisciplinary distributed Observatories for the Study of Arctic Connections (T-MOSAiC)
Member of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Environmental Effects Assessment Panel
Member of the Freshwater Expert Monitoring Group (FEMG) under the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program (CBMP)
Associate Director of the Centre for Northern Studies (CEN) since 2018
Member of the Interuniversity Research Group in Limnology (GRIL)
Serves on Garfield Weston Foundation and NSERC Northern Research Supplement Committee
Mentor for the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS)
Publications
Professional experience
2011
2010
2009
2008
Professor · University of Québec at Chicoutimi, Qc (CA)
Canada Research Chair in Boreal and Polar Aquatic Ecology
Academy Research Fellow -University of Jyväskylä (FI)
Post-doctoral researcher - Université Laval, QC (CA)
Ph.D Hydrobiology - University of Helinski, Finland
CONTACT
MILLA RAUTIO
milla.rautio (at) uqac.ca
Département des Sciences Fondamentales
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
555, boulevard de l’Université, Chicoutimi (Québec) G7H 2B1 Canada
www.rautioaqualab.com
