User:Lusilier

Greetings. My real name is Paul Dominique Barrette, Ph.D., research scientist at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa. I was trained as a geologist and later specialized in ice physics, mechanics and hydraulics. In the last number of years, I have been working on issues of applied nature related namely with ice/winter roads, ice-structure interaction, frazil ice, river ice, and others of a geotechnical nature in cold regions offshore environments. My aim is to bring that material into a form that adheres to the wiki's encyclopedic mandate, in three ways:
 * 1) By extracting only general information from the scientific/engineering literature, while giving precedence to the most recent sources. This includes textbooks and journal articles, but also conference proceedings papers. I try to avoid web sites.
 * 2) I make my own drawings (with Inkscape), and try to keep them as general as possible, simple, self-explanatory and consistent with the article's text. They are based on the literature that was used to write the article and any related background research.
 * 3) My role is that of a messenger. Zero opinion (or almost, since the selection of sources is never fully unbiased).

The bulk of my activities
I began contributing to Wikipedia in 2012. Following are the main articles I have worked on.
 * Fast ice
 * Finger rafting
 * Frazil ice
 * Ice
 * Jave
 * Ice road
 * Lead (sea ice)
 * Offshore geotechnical engineering
 * Pressure ridge (ice)
 * Sea ice
 * Seabed gouging by ice
 * Snow
 * Snowflake
 * Snow road
 * Stamukha
 * Strudel (ice)
 * Submarine pipeline
 * Winter road

Visual media
Lusilier (talk) 16:55, 31 December 2013 (UTC)