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:
I began contributing to Wikipedia in 2012. Following are the main articles I have worked on.