Name: Danielle Fortin
Full Professor
Associate Director of the Environmental Science Program
My favorite music
Jazz bien sur!
My favorite song
Ring of fire
My favorite links
I am a geologist by training (both B.Sc. and M.Sc. in geology), but I became interested in aqueous geochemistry during my Ph.D., when I studied the formation of iron oxides in lake sediments, under the supervision of Dr. André Tessier. After observing bacteria in my iron oxide samples, I became intrigued and I decided to do a post-doctoral fellowship in microbiology under the supervision of late Dr. T.J. Beveridge. It did not take long before I became fascinated by the role of bacteria in element cycling and mineral formation and as a result, I became a geomicrobiologist.
Education
Ph.D: INRS-ETE (1992)
M.Sc.: Laval Univ. (1987)
B.Sc.: Laval Univ. (1984)
Languages
French and English
Contact information
Dept. Earth Sciences
University of Ottawa
140 Louis Pasteur
Ottawa, ON, Canada
K1N 6N5
tel +1 613 562 5800
(ext. 6423)
fax. +1 613 562 5192
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