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

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

Visual media

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