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Tracy Brennand (MA Cantab; PhD Alberta): Professor
I am a geomorphologist and sedimentologist. My main research interests lie in the processes that shape Earth’s surface, and in particular with the action of glaciers and ice sheets. My field-intensive research program probes the paleoenvironmental record contained within glacigenic sediments and landforms and explores the agents and processes responsible for their formation and evolution. My main interest is in understanding how ice sheets operated in the past, with a view to better understanding how present-day ice sheets may behave in the future. I have also applied this knowledge to the inventory and management of Canada’s natural resources and to investigations of the action of water on Mars. My research program integrates digital terrain modeling, topographic surveying, remote sensing, sedimentology, shallow geophysical techniques and geochronology. To find out more about my research visit my research links, or contact me at tabrenna@sfu.ca. |
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Olav Lian (MSc SFU; PhD Western): Adjunct professor
My NSERC-funded research includes Quaternary sedimentology and stratigraphy, glacial geology, geomorphology, and geochronology (luminescence dating). I have collaborated with geomorphologists, glacial geologists, physicists, geophysicists, and biologists. I am mainly interested in understanding the character of environmental change in western Canada over the Quaternary Period (last ~2.5 million years), but I am also collaborating on research projects in the eastern and western Canadian Arctic, Australia, and Patagonia (southernmost Chile and Argentina), and I have collaborated on projects in New Zealand, Russia and Indonesia. For more information on my research, see my homepage and my publications and seminars page, or contact me at Olav.Lian@ufv.ca. |
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Jonathan Cripps: PhD. candidate
PhD. thesis: Reconstructing the paleohydrology and paleohydraulics of glacial lakes in southern BC
To find out more, contactJonny at jecripps@sfu.ca
Research awards at SFU: 2013 GSA graduate student research grant; 2013 Quaternary Research Association student travel award.
Present position: Teaching assistant, SFU
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Andrew Perkins: PhD. candidate
PhD. thesis: Deglacial chronology and style of the southern Fraser Plateau and environs, British Columbia
To find out more, contact Andrew at ajp7@sfu.ca
Research awards at SFU: 2010 GSA graduate student research grant; CANQUA 2013 Proudfoot award for best student talk (3rd place); CANQUA travel award 2013; CGRG 2011 Jean-Claude Dionne award for best student oral presentation in a CGRG-sponsored session at geoHydro 2011
Present position: Limited term lecturer, Central Washington University |
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Marco Jorge: MSc. candidate
Extreme Environments addict
MSc project: Size, shape and spatiality of Puget Lowland (WA, USA) subglaial bedforms and an exploration of potential environmental controlling factors
To find out more, contact Marco at mjorge@sfu.ca
Research awards at SFU: 2013 GSA graduate student research grant
Present position: Teaching assistant, SFU
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Matthew Burke (PhD Nothumbria): Post-doc
Post-doctoral project at SFU (2010-2012): Controls on esker sedimentary architecture during the last glaciation of Canada
Research award: Leverhulme Study Abroad Studentship
To find out more, contact Matt at mjburke@sfu.ca
Present position: Post-doc, BRITICE CHRONO, University of Liverpool
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Jerome Lesemann (PhD SFU)
PhD thesis: Subglacial processes, glacier dynamics, and deglacial processes and patterns assocated with the Cordilleran Ice Sheet around Okanagan Valley, British Columbia. Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University [pdf]
To find out more, contact Jerome at Jerome.Lesemann@viu.ca
Research awards at SFU: 2005 CANQUA Proudfoot award for best student paper (3rd place); 2004 AGU/CGU Outstanding Student Paper award; 2001 & 2002 GSA graduate student research grants
Present position: Professor, Vancouver Island University (homepage) |
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Jared Peters (MSc SFU)
MSc thesis: Late Pleistocene evolution of glacial Lake Purcell: a potential floodwater source to the Channeled Scabland. Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University [pdf]
To find out more, contact Jared at Peters-J@email.ulster.ac.uk
Research awards at SFU: 2013 CAG Starkey-Robinson Award in recognition of high quality graduate research that furthers understanding of the geography of Canada; 2010 GSA graduate student research grant
Present position: PhD candidate, University of Ulster (homepage)
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Christina Neudorf (MSc SFU; PhD Wollongong)
MSc thesis (2008): Relationships between the macroscale sedimentology and micromorphology of glacigenic diamictons in south-central British Columbia. Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University [pdf]
PhD thesis (2012): Luminescence investigations into the time of final deposition of Toba volcanic ash and artefact-bearing alluvial deposits in the Middle Son Valley, Madhya Pradesh, India. Centre for Archeological Science, University of Wollongong, Australia
To find out more, contact Chrissy at Christina.Neudorf@ufv.ca
Research awards at SFU: 2006 NSERC CGS-M; 2006 GSA graduate student research grant
Present position: Hakai post-doctoral fellow, Optical dating laboratory, UFV (homepage). |
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Timothy Johnsen (MSc SFU; PhD Stockholm)
MSc thesis (2004): Late glacial lakes of the Thompson basin, southern interior of British Columbia: paleogeography and paleoenvironment. Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University [pdf]
PhD thesis (2010): Dynamics and chronology of ice sheet deglaciation in the central Scandinavian mountain range. Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Sweden
To find out more, contact Tim at timmertim@gmail.com or visit his homepage
Research awards at SFU: 2001 CANQUA Proudfoot award for best student paper (1st place); 2005 CAG Starkey-Robinson Award in recognition of high quality graduate research that furthers understanding of the geography of Canada
Present position: Geologist, Imperial Oil, Calgary |
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Kerry Ayers
MSc project: Genesis and implications of undulating terrain on selected areas of the southeastern plains, Canada (never completed)
Research award: 2005 CANQUA Lortie award for best student poster (1st place); 2002 GSA graduate student research grant
Present position: High school science teacher, Calgary, Alberta |
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Abigail Burt
PhD project: Genesis of glaciofluvial sedimentary bodies in southeeastern Manitoba (never completed)
Research awards under my supervision: 2002 GSA northeastern section outstanding student paper award
Present position: Quaternary geoscientist, Ontario Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forests (MNDMF) |
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| Research assistants |
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| Kate Bujnowicz, BSc candidate, SFU |
Reconstructing the paleohydrology and paleohydaulics of glacial lake drainage in southern BC |
| Qihao (George) Sun, BSc candidate, SFU |
Reconstructing the paleohydrology and paleohydaulics of glacial lake drainage in southern BC |
| Matt Aquin, BSc candidate, SFU |
Quantifying esker planform from SPOT imagery, Keewatin |
| Meaghan Dinney, BSc candidate, SFU |
Quantifying esker planform from SPOT imagery, Keewatin |
| Gia Bogeti, BSc candidate, SFU |
Quantifying esker planform fro SPOT imagery, Keewatin |
| Valerie Zhang, BA candidate, SFU |
Mapping subglacial bedforms, Puget Lowland |
| Ainur Matayeva, MSc candidate, Vienna |
Mapping of glacial lakes and eskers |
| Valerie Zhang, BA candidate, SFU |
Mapping of glacial lakes, southern BC |
| Suzann Rowden, BSc candidate, SFU |
The late Pleistocene dynamics and evolution of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet |
| Sarah Pearce, MSc, B.Ed. candidate, SFU |
Creating a digital elevation and bathymetric model of the Kootenay Lake area, BC |
| Lili Perreault, BSc candidate, SFU |
Quantification of glacial landscapes |
| Qihao (George) Sun, BSc candidate, SFU |
Quantifying esker pattern and planform |
| Malcolm Little, undergraduate student, Kwantlen Polytechnic University |
Shallow geophysics on deglacial landforms, southern Fraser Plateau |
| Andrew Perkins,PhD candidate, SFU |
Deglacial history of the southern Fraser Plateau |
| Aaron Dixon, BSc candidate, SFU |
The structure and evolution of meltwater drainage systems of the Laurentide Ice Sheet |
| Melissa Dinsdale, BSc, EASC, SFU |
The structure and evolution of meltwater drainage systems of the Laurentide Ice Sheet |
| David Sacco, MSc candidate, SFU |
Geophysical investigation of glaciofluvial landforms |
| Jared Peters, MSc candidate, SFU |
Deglacial history of the southern Purcell Trench, BC. |
| Tyler Williams, BSc candidate, SFU |
Inferring the timing and dynamics of paleo-ice sheets |
| Christina Neudorf, MSc candidate, SFU |
Till sedimentology and optical age sampling southern Interior, BC |
| Jennifer Godfrey, BSc candidate, Univerity of the Fraser Valey |
Optical ages for sediments in the Bowmanville Bluffs |
| Robert Price, BSc candidate, SFU |
Sedimentology of glacigenic diamictons, BC interior |
| Christina Neudorf, BSc, Saskatoon |
Inferring the behaviour of past ice sheets from field and digital data |
| Jessica Pickell, BSc candidate, SFU |
Database development and analysis for paleoglaciology; Inferring the behaviour of past ice sheets from field and digital data |
| Rob Ostwald, BSc candidate, SFU |
Archival research in glacial geomorphology |
| Rebecca Lynn, BSc candidate, SFU |
Archival research in glacial geomorphology |
| Stephen Momeyer, BSc candidate, SFU |
Okanagan Valley and Prairie esker research |
| Chris Kowalchuk, BSc candidate, SFU |
Glacial Lake Deadman and Belair Moraine research |
| Amanda Denney, BSc candidate, SFU |
Okanagan Valley research |
| Derek Kinakin, BSc candidate, SFU |
Southeastern Plains research |
| Claire Beaney, PhD candidate, SFU |
Using GIS to investigate ice-sheet paleohydrology in southern Alberta |
| Jake McGillivray, BSc candidate, SFU |
Analysing the glacial paleohydrology of southern Alberta using GIS |
| Mark Jurca, BSc candidate, SFU |
Glacial Lake Deadman research |
| Tania Jurca, BSc candidate, SFU |
Williams Lake - Prince George research |
| Abigail Burt, PhD candidate, University of Waterloo |
Sedimentology of the Belair Moraine, Manitoba |
| James Ross, BSc, MSc candidate, Queen’s University |
Lake Ontario bluff survey |
| Trevor Shaw, BSc candidate, Queen’s University |
Surficial mapping and georadar, southern Ontario |
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In addition, members of the paleoglaciology research group commonly make use of resources in other physical geography labs or departments at SFU, and we have a collaborative agreement with the Optical Dating lab at UFV.
