Pierre Brunel

Not to be confused with literary critic, Pierre Brunel (1939-) Amazon bio - "Pierre Brunel, born in Montreal in 1931, obtained a B.Sc. in biology from the Université de Montréal in 1962. His study of amphipod Crustacea in Baie des Chaleurs, started in 1954, led to an M.A. from the University of Toronto, then to employment by the Station de Biologie marine de Grande-Rivière (Gaspé) (Quebec Department of Fisheries). In 1966 he moved to teaching in the Department of Biological Sciences of the University of Montreal and obtained his Ph.D. in 1968 from McGill University. In 1970 he joined ex-colleagues from McGill University to establish the Groupe interuniversitaire de Recherches océanographiques du Québec (GIROQ), where he sat on the executive board until 1989. His research has dealt mostly with the ecology of marine bottom communities, mostly in the Gulf and Estuary of the St. Lawrence, but also in the Saguenay Fjord, the Bay of Fundy, and Hudson Bay, as well as amphipod taxonomy and cod feeding and migrations. Since 1990 he has redirected his activities more toward biodiversity and saving research collections, especially through the establishment with colleagues of the Québec Biodiversity Network."