Hadleigh Thompson


Département des sciences de la Terre et de l’atmosphère - Université du Québec à Montréal
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Hadleigh Thompson, M.Sc.

Current Position

  • Research assitant, 2019 - Present
    Département des sciences de la Terre et de l’atmosphère (su pervisor: Dr. Julie M. Thériault)
    Université du Québec à Montréal , Montreal, Quebec. Canada

    Education

  • M.Sc. Natural resources and environmental studies, 2019
    University of Norterh British Columbia, Prince George, BC. Canada
    Masters' thesis: Wind climatology of Quesnel lake, British Columbia

  • B.Sc. Atmospheric science, 2016,
    The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. Caanada

  • Canadian Avalanche Association, 2009-2012
    Operations level one (ski), 2009
    Basic and advanced weather for avalanche workers

  • Relevent Employment

  • Research assitant, 2019
    Northern Hydrometeorology Group (Dr Stepehn Dery)
    University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC. Canada

  • Teaching assistant, 2017 - 2019
    ENSC 201 Weather and Climate (3 semesters), GEOG 210 Geomorphology (2 semesters)
    University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC

  • Operations manager, 2010 - 2017 (summer)
    Owl Rafting on the Ottawa River, Foresters Falls, Ontario

  • Guiding experience, 2005 -2010:
  • Hiking guide, Collets Mountain Holidays, central Dolomites, Italy (2005-2006)
  • Ski patrol, Fernie Alpine Resort ski patrol, Fernie, BC (2007)
  • Glacier guide, Franz Josef Glacier Guides, New Zealand (2009)
  • Tail guide (ski), Mustang Powder Cats, Revelstoke, BC (2010)

  • Military combat and surgical medical technician, 1997 - 2002
    Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps. Overseas United Nations peacekeeping and peace-monitoring deployments to East Timor (2001) and the Solomon Islands (2002)
  • Presentaions

  • Thompson, H. D., Jackson, P. L., Laval, B. E., and Déry, S. J., 2018. The climatology of seiche-inducing winds in a large intermontane lake: Quesnel Lake, British Columbia. Poster presentation, Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic society congress, Halifax. NS
  • Publications

  • Thériault, J. M., Déry, S. J., Pomeroy, J. W., Smith, H. M., Almonte, J., Bertoncini, A., Crawford, R. W., Desroches-Lapointe, A., Lachapelle, M., Mariani, Z., Mitchell, S., Morris, J. E., Hébert-Pinard, C., Rodriguez, P., and Thompson, H. D.: Meteorological observations collected during the Storms and Precipitation Across the continental Divide Experiment (SPADE), April–June 2019, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 1233–1249, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1233-2021, 2021.


  • Thompson, H. D., Déry, S. J., Jackson, P. L., and Laval, B. E., 2020. A synoptic climatology of potential seiche-inducing winds in a large intermontane lake: Quesnel Lake, British Columbia, Canada. International Journal of Climatology, 1-14. doi: 10:1002/joc.6560

  • Thompson, H. D., Déry, S. J., Jackson, P. L., and Laval, B. E., 2020. A synoptic climatology of potential seiche-inducing winds in a large intermontane lake: Quesnel Lake, British Columbia, Canada. International Journal of Climatology, 1-14. doi: 10:1002/joc.6560

  • Thompson, H. D., 2019. Wind climatology of Quesnel Lake, British Columbia. Master Thesis, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC

  • Hernández-Henríquez, M A., Sharma, A. R., Taylor, M., Thompson, H. D., and Déry, S. J., 2018. The Cariboo Alpine Mesonet: sub-hourly hydrometeorological observations of British Columbia's Cariboo Mountains and surrounding area since 2006, Earth System Science Data, 10, 1655-1672

  • Awards

  • Winner: Best atmospheric science poster, $1000. Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic society congress, Halifax, NS (June 2018)

  • Graduate conference award, $1800. To present at the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic society congress, Halifax, NS (June 2018)

  • Graduate research project award, $4400. University of Northern British Columbia (May 2018)

  • Graduate teaching excellence award, $250. University of Northern British Columbia (May 2018)

  • Graduate scholarship award, $3500. University of Northern British Columbia (June 2017)

  • Deans list (undergraduate level). Thompson Rivers University (2014)

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