Marie-Amélie Boucher
Professeure, Faculté de génie
FGEN Département de génie civil et de génie du bâtiment
Présentation
Sujets, disciplines ou intérêts de recherche
Hydrology, Hydrological forecasts, Ensemble forecasts, Snow, Data assimilation
Diplômes
- (2011). Ph.D. Civil and Water Engineering. Université Laval. Québec, Québec, Canada.
- (2006). M.Sc. Civil and Water Engineering. Université Laval. Québec, Québec, Canada.
- (2004). B.Sc. Physics. Université de Sherbrooke. Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.
Expériences académiques
- Professor. (2017-). Université de Sherbrooke. Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.
- Professor. (2011-2017). Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Saguenay, Quebec, Canada.
Financement
- Subvention. Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Hydrological Ensemble Forecasting. Government of Canada (ON, Canada). Voir plus
Publications
Articles
- Gökçen Uysal, Marie-Amélie Boucher, Charles Mathieu, Rodolfo Alvarado-Montero, Ali Arda Şorman. (2026). A data-assimilated SEAS5 forecasting framework for seasonal hydropower inflows in a snow-dominated basin. Journal of Hydrology. DOI
- Alireza Askarinejad, Mélanie Trudel, Marie-Amélie Boucher. (2025). Enhancing streamflow ensemble forecasting: evaluating pre- and post-processing strategies for a spatially distributed model. Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques. DOI
- Alireza Amani, Marie-Amélie Boucher, Alexandre R. Cabral, Vincent Vionnet, Étienne Gaborit. (2025). Cold climates, complex hydrology: can a land surface model accurately simulate deep percolation?. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. DOI
- Ilias G. Pechlivanidis, Yiheng Du, James Bennett, Marie-Amélie Boucher, Annie Y. Y. Chang, Louise Crochemore, Antara Dasgupta, Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Jürg Luterbacher, Florian Pappenberger, Maria-Helena Ramos, Louise Slater, Stefan Uhlenbrook, Fredrik Wetterhall, Andrew Wood, Waldo Lavado-Casimiro, Kei Yoshimura, Ruben Imhoff, Peter J. van Oevelen, ... Micha Werner. (2025). Enhancing Research-to-Operations in Hydrological Forecasting: Innovations across Scales and Horizons. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. DOI
- Alireza Amani, Marie‐Amélie Boucher, Alexandre R. Cabral, Vincent Vionnet, Étienne Gaborit. (2025). Analysing Deep Percolation Dynamics: A Lysimeter‐Based Study in a Cold Environment. Hydrological Processes. DOI
- Sergio Andrés Redondo Tilano, Marie-Amélie Boucher, Jay Lacey, Jérémy Parent. (2025). Quantifying changes in floods under different bathymetry conditions for a lake setting. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering. DOI
- Sergio Andrés Redondo-Tilano, Marie-Amélie Boucher, Jay Lacey. (2025). Emerging strategies for addressing flood-damage modeling issues: A review. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. DOI
- Adoubi Vincent De Paul Adombi, Romain Chesnaux, Marie-Amélie Boucher, Marco Braun, Juliette Lavoie. (2024). A causal physics-informed deep learning formulation for groundwater flow modeling and climate change effect analysis. Journal of Hydrology. DOI
- Nicolas Fontaine, Marie-Amélie Boucher, François Anctil, Jean Odry, Simon Lachance-Cloutier, Vincent Fortin, Richard Turcotte. (2024). Combining large-scale and regional hydrological forecasts using simple methods. Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques. DOI
- Valérie Jean, Marie-Amélie Boucher, Anissa Frini, Dominic Roussel. (2023). Uncertainty in three dimensions: the challenges of communicating probabilistic flood forecast maps. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. DOI
- Louise J. Slater, Louise Arnal, Marie-Amélie Boucher, Annie Y.-Y. Chang, Simon Moulds, Conor Murphy, Grey Nearing, Guy Shalev, Chaopeng Shen, Linda Speight, Gabriele Villarini, Robert L. Wilby, Andrew Wood, Massimiliano Zappa. (2023). Hybrid forecasting: blending climate predictions with AI models. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. DOI
- Jean, V., Boucher, M.-A., Frini, A., Roussel, D. (2023). Fully integrating probabilistic flood forecasts into the decision-making process across southern Quebec, Canada: some factors to consider. Canadian Water Resources Journal. DOI
- Nolin, A.F., Girardin, M.P., Adamowski, J.F., Barzegar, R., Boucher, M.-A., Tardif, J.C., Bergeron, Y. (2023). Observed and projected trends in spring flood discharges for the Upper Harricana River, eastern boreal Canada. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. DOI
- Jean Odry, Marie-Amélie Boucher, Simon Lachance-Cloutier, Richard Turcotte, Pierre-Yves St-Louis. (2022). Large-scale snow data assimilation using a spatialized particle filter: recovering the spatial structure of the particles. The Cryosphere. DOI
- Jing Xu, François Anctil, Marie-Amélie Boucher. (2022). Exploring hydrologic post-processing of ensemble streamflow forecasts based on affine kernel dressing and non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. DOI
- Adombi, A.V.D.P., Chesnaux, R., Boucher, M.-A. (2022). Comparing numerical modelling, traditional machine learning and theory-guided machine learning in inverse modeling of groundwater dynamics: A first study case application. Journal of Hydrology. DOI
- Markhali, S.P., Poulin, A., Boucher, M.-A. (2022). Spatio-temporal discretization uncertainty of distributed hydrological models. Hydrological Processes. DOI
- Konstantin F. F. Ntokas, Jean Odry, Marie-Amélie Boucher, Camille Garnaud. (2021). Investigating ANN architectures and training to estimate snow water equivalent from snow depth. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. DOI
- Adombi, A.V.D.P., Chesnaux, R., Boucher, M.-A. (2021). Review: Theory-guided machine learning applied to hydrogeology—state of the art, opportunities and future challenges,应用于水文地质的具有理论的机器学习综述:最新技术、机遇和未来挑战,Revue: Apprentissage automatique guidée par la théorie appliqué à l’hydrogéologie—état de l’art, opportunités et défis,Revisão: Aprendizagem de máquina orientada pela teoria aplicada à hidrogeologia—estado da arte, oportunidades e futuros desafios,Revisión: La teoría del aprendizaje automático aplicada a la hidrogeología—estado del arte, oportunidades y desafíos futuros. Hydrogeology Journal. DOI
- Estelle Reig, Marie-Amélie Boucher, Éric Tremblay. (2020). Ensemble hydrological forecasts for reservoir management of the Shipshaw River catchment using limited data. Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques. DOI
- J. Odry, M. A. Boucher, P. Cantet, S. Lachance-Cloutier, R. Turcotte, P. Y. St-Louis. (2020). Using artificial neural networks to estimate snow water equivalent from snow depth. Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques. DOI
- M.‐A. Boucher, J. Quilty, J. Adamowski. (2020). Data Assimilation for Streamflow Forecasting Using Extreme Learning Machines and Multilayer Perceptrons. Water Resources Research. DOI
- Labrecque, G., Chesnaux, R., Boucher, M.-A. (2020). Water-table fluctuation method for assessing aquifer recharge: application to Canadian aquifers and comparison with other methods,评价含水层补给量的地下水位波动方法:在加拿大含水层的应用及与其他方法的比较,Méthode des variations du niveau piézométrique pour évaluer la recharge d’un aquifère: application à des aquifères canadiens et comparaison avec d’autres méthodes,Método da flutuação do nível freático para avaliar a recarga de aquíferos: aplicação em aquíferos canadenses e comparação com outros métodos,Método de la fluctuación de los niveles freáticos para evaluar la recarga de acuíferos: aplicación a los acuíferos canadienses y comparación con otros métodos. Hydrogeology Journal. DOI
- John Quilty, Jan Adamowski, Marie‐Amélie Boucher. (2019). A Stochastic Data‐Driven Ensemble Forecasting Framework for Water Resources: A Case Study Using Ensemble Members Derived From a Database of Deterministic Wavelet‐Based Models. Water Resources Research. DOI
- Xu, J., Anctil, F., Boucher, M.-A. (2019). Hydrological post-processing of streamflow forecasts issued from multimodel ensemble prediction systems. Journal of Hydrology. DOI
- Ouellet-Proulx, S., St-Hilaire, A., Boucher, M.-A. (2019). Implication of evaporative loss estimation methods in discharge and water temperature modelling in cool temperate climates. Hydrological Processes. DOI
- Cantet, P., Boucher, M.A., Lachance-Coutier, S., Turcotte, R., Fortin, V. (2019). Using a particle filter to estimate the spatial distribution of the snowpack water equivalent. Journal of Hydrometeorology. DOI
- Rachel Bazile, Marie-Amélie Boucher, Luc Perreault, Robert Leconte. (2017). Verification of ECMWF System 4 for seasonal hydrological forecasting in a northern climate. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. DOI
- Simon Matte, Marie-Amélie Boucher, Vincent Boucher, Thomas-Charles Fortier Filion. (2017). Moving beyond the cost–loss ratio: economic assessment of streamflow forecasts for a risk-averse decision maker. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. DOI
- Gbambie, A.S.B., Poulin, A., Boucher, M.-A., Arsenault, R. (2017). Added value of alternative information in interpolated precipitation datasets for hydrology. Journal of Hydrometeorology. DOI
- Ouellet-Proulx, S., Chimi Chiadjeu, O., Boucher, M.-A., St-Hilaire, A. (2017). Assimilation of water temperature and discharge data for ensemble water temperature forecasting. Journal of Hydrology. DOI
- Ouellet-Proulx, S., St-Hilaire, A., Boucher, M.-A. (2017). Water temperature ensemble forecasts: Implementation using the CEQUEAU model on two contrasted river systems. Water (Switzerland). DOI
- Antoine Thiboult, François Anctil, Marie-Amélie Boucher. (2016). Accounting for three sources of uncertainty in ensemble hydrological forecasting. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. DOI
- Huet, M., Chesnaux, R., Boucher, M., Poirier, C. (2016). Comparing various approaches for assessing groundwater recharge at a regional scale in the Canadian Shield. Hydrological Sciences Journal. DOI
- Boucher, M.-A., Perreault, L., Anctil, F., Favre, A.-C. (2015). Exploratory analysis of statistical post-processing methods for hydrological ensemble forecasts. Hydrological Processes. DOI
- Brisson, C., Boucher, M.-A., Latraverse, M. (2015). Illustration of the added value of using a multi-site calibration and correction approach to reconstruct natural inflows and inter-catchment transfer flow: A case study. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering. DOI
- Boucher, M.-A., Leconte, R. (2013). Changements climatiques et production hydroélectrique canadienne: Où en sommes-nous?. Canadian Water Resources Journal. DOI
- Boucher, M.-A., Tremblay, D., Delorme, L., Perreault, L., Anctil, F. (2012). Hydro-economic assessment of hydrological forecasting systems. Journal of Hydrology. DOI
- Boucher, M.-A., Anctil, F., Perreault, L., Tremblay, D. (2011). A comparison between ensemble and deterministic hydrological forecasts in an operational context. Advances in Geosciences. DOI
- Boucher, M.-A., Laliberté, J.-P., Anctil, F. (2010). An experiment on the evolution of an ensemble of neural networks for streamflow forecasting. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. DOI
- Velázquez, J.A., Petit, T., Lavoie, A., Boucher, M.-A., Turcotte, R., Fortin, V., Anctil, F. (2009). An evaluation of the Canadian global meteorological ensemble prediction system for short-term hydrological forecasting. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. DOI
- Boucher, M.-A., Perreault, L., Anctil, F. (2009). Tools for the assessment of hydro logical ensemble forecasts obtained by neural networks. Journal of Hydroinformatics. DOI
- Parent, A.-C., Anctil, F., Cantin, V., Boucher, M.-A. (2008). Neural network input selection for hydrological forecasting affected by snowmelt. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. DOI
- Marie-Amélie Boucher. Enhancing streamflow ensemble forecasting: evaluating pre- and post-processing strategies for a spatially distributed model. Canadian Water Resources Journal.
Livres
- Boucher, M.-A., Ramos, M.-H. (2019). Ensemble Streamflow Forecasts for Hydropower Systems. Handbook of Hydrometeorological Ensemble Forecasting. DOI
- Boucher, M.-A., Roulin, E., Fortin, V. (2019). Short-Range Ensemble Forecast Post-processing. Handbook of Hydrometeorological Ensemble Forecasting. DOI
Chapitres de livre
- Daniel de Cotret, Hélène Proulx, Marie-Amélie Boucher, Dominique Derome. (2025). Development of a Building Envelope Damage Assessment Tool for Flood Events based on Hygrothermal Modelling. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering. DOI
Autres contributions
Cours enseignés ou supervisés à l'UdeS
- GCI135 - Calcul différentiel et intégral. (2024-2026). (2CR).
- GCI165 - Introduction à la programmation. (2025-2026). (3CR).
- GCI160 - Introduction à la programmation. (2024). (3CR).
- GCI607 - Formation professionnelle. (2024). (1CR).
- GBA400 - Mécanique des fluides. (2023). (3CR).
- GCI705 - Étude spécialisée III. (2023). (3CR).
Activités professionnelles
- Poste d'invité. European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. Forecast. Invited Scientist. Reading, Berkshire, Royaume-Uni. (2022).
