Dominique was born and raised in northern France. She came to the United States in August 1979 and moved from West Virginia to Colorado to California to New Mexico, and in 1988 to Corvallis, Oregon.
She took sporadic drawing and watercolor classes wherever she lived. In 2000 she moved to Olympia, Washington, where she met the watercolor artist and teacher Melodi Cottongim who inspired her to pursue that medium. Dominique first showed and sold her watercolors at the 2005 Olympia Artswalk.
Dominique has done research on climate change impacts on terrestrial ecosystems since 1989 — first as a contractor for the Environmental Protection Agency, then as an OSU professor, later as climate change science director at The Nature Conservancy, and more recently as a senior climate change scientist at the Conservation Biology Institute, focusing on science communication with web tools. Now, she is back at OSU teaching an online class "Global Environmental Change: Using Data to Inform Decisions"
Dominique has done research on climate change impacts on terrestrial ecosystems since 1989 — first as a contractor for the Environmental Protection Agency, then as an OSU professor, later as climate change science director at The Nature Conservancy, and more recently as a senior climate change scientist at the Conservation Biology Institute, focusing on science communication with web tools. Now, she is back at OSU teaching an online class "Global Environmental Change: Using Data to Inform Decisions"
