Group Leader
Professor, Department of Earth Sciences - Simon Fraser University
Education: Ph.D., Earth and Ocean Sciences (Geophysics), University of British Columbia, 2000; B.A. (Summa Cum Laude), Physics, University of Colorado, 1994
Current Postdocs & Graduate Students
M.Sc. Candidate
Project: Improving mass-balance model fidelity using site-specific constraints
M.Sc. Candidate Co-advisor: Bernhard Rabus
Project: Improved methods for high-resolution speckle tracking of glacier motion
M.Sc. Candidate Co-advisor: Glyn Williams-Jones
Project: Complex glaciovolcanic hazards, Mt. Meager, BC
Ph.D. Candidate
Project:Past and present glacier dynamics inferred from surface observables
Previous Postdocs & Graduate Students
Ph.D., 2019
Project: The influence of bedrock geology on glacier dynamics in the St. Elias Mountains, Yukon, Canada
M.Sc., 2019
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2018
Project: Changing thermal regimes of mountain glaciers in a warming Canadian Arctic
M.Sc., 2017
Project: Multi-scale investigation of snow accumulation on alpine glaciers
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Iceland and SFU, 2015-2017
Co-Advisors: Alexander Jarosch and
Guðfinna Aðalgeirsdóttir
Project: Modelling the Holocene evolution of Drangajökull ice cap, NW Iceland
Ph.D., 2017
Project: Numerical investigations of subglacial hydrology as a direct and indirect driver of glacial erosion
M.Sc., SFU Statistics, 2016
Co-advisor: Derek Bingham
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2014-2015
Project: Modelling the mass balance, dynamics and demise of Barnes Ice Cap, Baffin Island
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010-2013
Project: A model of the glacial drainage system combining channels, sheet flow and storage
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013-2015
Project: Using a Biot-type porous model to estimate snow water equivalent with seismic methods
M.Sc., 2012
Project: Characterization and interpretation of polythermal structure in two subarctic glaciers
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007-2009
Project: Modelling the dynamics of Belcher Glacier, Devon Island Ice Cap
M.Sc., 2010
M.Sc., 2009
M.Sc., 2009
Project: Glacier melt modelling in the Donjek Range, St. Elias Mountains, Yukon Territory
Visiting Scholars, past and present
University of Freiburg, 2020
Columbia University, 2019
ENSEGID, Bordeaux, 2016
Aarhus University, 2014
University of Texas, 2014
University of Aberdeen, 2010-2011
ENS-Cachan, 2010
ENS-Paris, 2009
Research Assistants, past and present
Anamika Adhikari, 2019 (B.Sc. candidate, SFU Geography)
Braden Connal, 2018 (B.Sc., SFU Earth Sciences)
Nathaniel D'Souza, 2018 (B.Sc. candidate, SFU Earth Sciences)
Glenn Hall, 2017 (B.Sc., SFU Earth Sciences)
Alex Milburn, 2016 (B.Sc., SFU Earth Sciences)
AJ Ward, 2016 (B.Sc., SFU Earth Sciences)
Sarah Furney, 2016 (B.Sc., SFU Earth Sciences)
Jonathan Klimesch, 2015-2016 (Highschool graduate)
Tien Vu, 2015 (B.Sc., SFU Computing Science)
Rita Dubman, 2014 (B.Sc., SFU Earth Sciences)
Keith Russell, 2014 (B.Eng., UBC Civil Engineering)
Allison Westin, 2013 (B.Sc., SFU Geography)
Hazel Wong, 2013 (B.Sc., SFU Earth Sciences)
Kyle Siemens, 2013 (B.Sc., UVic Earth and Ocean Sciences)
Yuriy Halushchenko, 2012-2013 (B.Sc., SFU)
Eric Petersen, 2013 (B.Sc., SFU Physics)
Jackson O'Neill, 2012 (B.Sc., UBC)
Benjamin Vautour, 2010 (B.Sc., SFU Earth Sciences)
Patrick Belliveau, 2008-2010 (B.Sc., SFU Physics)
Jennifer Owen, 2009 (B.Sc., SFU Earth Sciences)
Elizabeth Baird, 2007-2008 (B.Sc., SFU Earth Sciences)
Jessica Logher, 2006-2007 (B.Sc., UVic; M.Ed., UBC)
Chris Doughty, 2006 (B.Sc., SFU Earth Sciences)
Jeff Catterall, 2005_2006 (B.Sc., SFU Earth Sciences)
Qianyong Yu, 2005 (B.Sc., SFU Computing Science)