User:Lusilier
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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:
- 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.
- 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.
- My role is that of a messenger. Zero opinion (or almost, since the selection of sources is never fully unbiased).