Claude Hillaire-Marcel FRSC (born April 1, 1944, in Salies-de-Béarn, Pyrénées-Atlantiques) is a Canadian geoscientist working in Quaternary research.
theses, and in addition he had 13 scientists working with him as postdoctoral fellows from Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Mexico, the UK and the U.S. His early papers covered Pleistocene marine fauna and isostatic rebound near Montreal.
Most of his work has been around the shores of Canada, but he has carried out field studies or been involved in research in Africa (Algeria, Burundi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Niger, Tanzania and Tunisia, the Middle East (Israel and Syria, Latin America (Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay), and Europe (France, Greece and Spain (including the Balearic and Canary island.
Claude Hillaire-Marcel was the Founding Director (1981-1989, 1997–1999) of The Centre de recherche en géochimie et géodynamique, or GEOTOP.
Claude Hillaire-Marcel served on the following committees; the Royal Society of Canada, Canadian Quaternary Association, International Union for Quaternary Research, Ocean Drilling Program, International Marine Global Change Study (IMAGES), the World Climate Research Program (WCRP), and the Joint Global Oceans Flux Studies (JGOFS).