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Refereed publications

LESEMANN, J.-E., BRENNAND, T.A., LIAN, O.B., SANBORN, P. 2013. A refined understanding of the paleoenvironmental history recorded at the Okanagan Centre section, a MIS 4 stratotype, south-central British Columbia, Canada, Journal of Quaternary Science 28(8): 729-747[pdf] [supplementary content]

PERKINS, A.J., BRENNAND, T.A. and BURKE, M.J. 2013. Genesis of an esker-like ridge on the southern Fraser Plateau, British Columbia: implications for paleo-ice sheet reconstruction based on geomorphic inversion, Geomorphology 190: 27-39. [pdf] [supplemantary content]

NEUDORF, C.M., BRENNAND, T.A., LIAN, O.B. 2013. Till forming processes beneath parts of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, British Columbia, Canada: Macroscale and microscale evidence and a new statistical technique for analyzing microstructure data, Boreas 42: 848-875. [pdf] [supplementary content]

BURKE, M.J., BRENNAND, T.A. and PERKINS, A.J. 2012. Transient subglacial hydrology of a thin ice sheet: insights from the Chasm Esker, British Columbia, Canada, Quaternary Science Reviews 58: 30-55. [pdf] [supplemantary content incl. animations .zip file]

BURKE, M.J., BRENNAND, T.A. and PERKINS, A.J. 2012. Evolution of the subglacial hydrologic system beneath the rapidly decaying Cordilleran Ice Sheet caused by ice-dammed lake drainage: implications for meltwater-induced ice acceleration, Quaternary Science Reviews 50: 125-140. [pdf] [supplementary content]

PERKINS, A.J., BRENNAND, T.A., BURKE, M.J. 2011. The genesis of an esker-like ridge at the margins of the last Cordilleran Ice Sheet.  Proceedings of geoHydro 2011, Quebec City. [pdf]

BURKE, M.J., BRENNAND, T.A., PERKINS, A.J. 2011. Erosional corridor evolution in south-central British Columbia: insights from ground-penetrating radar surveys. Proceedings of geoHydro 2011, Quebec City. [pdf]

LESEMANN J.-E., BRENNAND, T.A. 2009. Regional reconstruction of subglacial hydrology and glaciodynamic behaviour along the southern margin of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet in British Columbia , Canada and northern Washington State , USA. Quaternary Science Reviews 28: 2420-2444. [pdf]

BURR D.M., ENGA, M-T., WILLIAMS R.M.E, ZIMBELMAN J.R., HOWARD A.D., BRENNAND T.A. 2009. Pervasive aqueous paleoflow features in the Aeolis/Zephyria Plana region, Mars. Icarus, 200 (1): 52-76. [pdf]

MUNRO-STASIUK, M.J., SHAW, J., SJOGREN, D.B., BRENNAND, T., FISHER, T., SHARPE, D., KOR, P., BEANEY, C., RAINS, R.B. 2009. The morphology and sedimentology of landforms created by subglacial megafloods. In Megaflooding on Earth and Mars. Edited by D. Burr, P. Carling and V. Baker. Cambridge University Press, p. 78-103. [pdf]

CARLING, P., BURR, D., JOHNSEN, T., BRENNAND, T. 2009. A review of megaflood depositional landforms on Earth and Mars. In Megaflooding on Earth and Mars. Edited by D. Burr, P. Carling and V. Baker. Cambridge University Press, p. 33-49. [pdf]

BRENNAND, T.A., RUSSELL, H.A.J., SHARPE, D.R. 2006. Tunnel channel character and evolution in central southern Ontario. In Glacier Science and Environmental Change. Edited by Knight, P.G. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, p. 37-39. [pdf]

JOHNSEN, T.F., BRENNAND, T.A. 2006. The environment in and around ice-dammed lakes in the moderately high relief setting of the southern Canadian Cordillera. Boreas, 35: 106-125. [pdf]

JOHNSEN, T.F., BRENNAND, T.A. 2004. Late glacial lakes in the Thompson basin, British Columbia: paleogeography and evolution. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 41(11): 1367-1383. [pdf]

BRENNAND, T.A. 2004. Glacifluvial (glaciofluvial). In Encyclopedia of Geomorphology: Volume 1, A-I. Edited by Goudie, A.S. Routledge, London , p. 459-465.

BRENNAND, T.A. 2000. Deglacial meltwater drainage and glaciodynamics: inferences from Laurentide eskers, Canada. Geomorphology, 32 (3-4): 263-293. [pdf]

SHARPE, D.R., BARNETT, P.J., RUSSELL, H.A.J., BRENNAND, T.A., GORRELL, G. 1999. Regional geological mapping of the Oak Ridges Moraine, Greater Toronto Area, southern Ontario. Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research, 1999-E, p. 123-136. [pdf]

RUSSELL, H.A.J., BRENNAND, T.A., LOGAN, C., SHARPE, D.R. 1998. Standardization and assessment of geologic descriptions from water well records, Greater Toronto and Oak Ridges Moraine areas, southern Ontario. Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research 1998-E, p. 89-102. [pdf]

BRENNAND, T.A. 1998. Urban Geology Note: Oshawa Ontario. In P.F. Karrow, and O. L. White (Eds.), Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 42: Urban Geology of Canadian Cities, p. 353-364. [pdf]

BARNETT, P.J., SHARPE, D.R., RUSSELL, H.A.J., BRENNAND, T.A., GORRELL, G., KENNY, F.M., PUGIN, A. 1998. On the origin of the Oak Ridges Moraine. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 35 (10): 1152-1167. [pdf]

SHARPE, D.R., DYKE, L.D., HINTON, M.J., PULLAN, S.E., RUSSELL, H.A.J., BRENNAND, T.A., BARNETT, P.J., PUGIN, A. 1996. Groundwater prospects in the Oak Ridges Moraine area, southern Ontario: application of regional geological models. Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research 1996-E, p. 181-190. [pdf]

RUSSELL, H.A.J., LOGAN, C., BRENNAND, T.A., HINTON, M.J., SHARPE, D.R. 1996. Regional geoscience database for the Oak Ridges Moraine project (southern Ontario). Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research 1996-E, p. 191-200. [pdf]

KENNY, F.M., RUSSELL, H.A.J., HINTON, M.J., BRENNAND, T.A. 1996. Digital elevation models in environmental geoscience, Oak Ridges Moraine, southern Ontario. Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research 1996-E, p. 201-208. [pdf]

BRENNAND, T.A., SHAW, J., SHARPE, D.R. 1996. Regional‑scale meltwater erosion and deposition patterns, northern Quebec, Canada. Annals of Glaciology, 22: 85-92. [pdf]

BRENNAND, T.A., SHAW, J. 1996. The Harricana glaciofluvial complex, Abitibi region, Quebec: its genesis and implications for meltwater regime and ice-sheet dynamics. Sedimentary Geology, 102: 221-262. [pdf]

BRENNAND, T.A. 1994. Macroforms, large bedforms and rhythmic sedimentary sequences in subglacial eskers, south-central Ontario: implications for esker genesis and meltwater regime. Sedimentary Geology, 91: 9-55. [pdf]

BRENNAND, T.A., SHAW, J. 1994. Tunnel channels and associated landforms, south-central Ontario: their implications for ice-sheet hydrology. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 31: 505-522. [pdf]

PILON, J.A., RUSSELL, H., BRENNAND, T.A., SHARPE, D.R., BARNETT, P.J. 1994. Ground penetrating radar in a hydrogeological investigation of the Oak Ridges Moraine, Ontario. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Ground Penetrating Radar (Kitchener, Ontario), Volume 2, p. 855-866. [pdf]

BRENNAND, T.A., SHARPE, D.R. 1993. Ice-sheet dynamics and subglacial meltwater regime inferred from form and sedimentology of glaciofluvial systems: Victoria Island, District of Franklin, NWT. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 30: 928-944. [pdf]

Reviewed publications

SHARPE, D.R., BARNETT, P.J., BRENNAND, T.A., GORRELL, G., RUSSELL, H.A.J. 2006. Digital surficial geology data of the Greater Toronto and Oak Ridges Moraine area, Southern Ontario (NTS 30 M/5, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 31 C/4, D/1, 2, 3, 4, 6, parts of 40 P/9, 16). Geological Survey of Canada , Open File 5318. 1 CD-ROM.

RUSSELL, H.A.J., SHARPE, D.R., BRENNAND, T.A., BARNETT, P.J. LOGAN , C. 2003. Tunnel channels of the Greater Toronto and Oak Ridges Moraine Areas, Southern Ontario . Geological Survey of Canada Open File 4485, scale 1:250,000. [pdf]

SHARPE, D.R., BARNETT, P.J., BRENNAND, T.A., FINLEY, D., GORRELL, G., RUSSELL, H.A.J., STACEY, P. 1999. Surficial Geology of the Greater Toronto and Oak Ridges Moraine areas, southern Ontario . Geological Survey of Canada , Open File D3777. [pdf]

RUSSELL, H.A.J., BRENNAND, T.A., LOGAN , C., SHARPE, D.R. 1998. Coding sediment descriptions from drilling records: documentation of MOEE waterwell coding, Greater Toronto and Oak Ridges Moraine areas, southern Ontario . Geological Survey of Canada Open File, May 1998.

BRENNAND, T.A., LOGAN , C., KENNY, F., MOORE , A., RUSSELL, H.A.J., SHARPE, D.R., BARNETT, P.J. 1997. Bedrock topography of the Greater Toronto and Oak Ridges Moraine areas, southern Ontario . Geological Survey of Canada Open File 3419, scale 1:200,000. [pdf]

BRENNAND, T.A. 1997. Stop 9. Newcastle-Port Hope bluffs. In Where is the water? Regional geological/hydrogeological framework, Oak Ridges Moraine area, southern Ontario . Compiled by Sharpe, D.R., and Barnett, P.J. Geological Association of Canada - Mineralogical Association of Canada , Joint Annual Meeting, Ottawa ‘97, Field Trip A1, Guidebook, p. 39-42. [pdf]

BRENNAND, T.A. 1997. Surficial geology of the Port Hope area, southern Ontario (30M/16); Geological Survey of Canada Open File 3298, 1 colour map, scale 1:50 000. [pdf]

BRENNAND, T.A. 1997. Surficial geology of the Oshawa area, southern Ontario (30M/15); Geological Survey of Canada Open File 3331, 1 colour map, scale 1:50 000. [pdf]

BRENNAND, T.A. 1997.  Stop 9.  Newcastle-Port Hope bluffs.  In Where is the water?  Regional geological/hydrogeological framework, Oak Ridges Moraine area, southern Ontario.  Compiled by Sharpe, D.R., and Barnett, P.J. Geological Association of Canada - Mineralogical Association of Canada, Joint Annual Meeting, Ottawa ‘97, Field Trip A1, Guidebook, p. 39-42.

GORRELL, G., BRENNAND, T.A. 1997. Surficial geology of the Rice Lake area, southern Ontario (31D/1); Geological Survey of Canada Open File 3332, 1 colour map, scale 1:50 000. [pdf]

RUSSELL, H.A.J., LOGAN , C., KENNY, F., MOORE , A., BRENNAND, T.A., SHARPE, D.R., BARNETT, P.J. 1997. Sediment thickness of the Greater Toronto and Oak Ridges Moraine areas, southern Ontario . Geological Survey of Canada Open File 2892, scale 1:200,000. [pdf]

SHARPE, D.R., BARNETT, P.J., BRENNAND, T.A., FINLEY, D., GORELL, G., RUSSELL, H.A. 1997. Surficial geology of the Greater Toronto and Oak Ridges Moraine areas. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 3062, scale 1:200,000. [pdf]

SHARPE, D.R., BARNETT, P.J., BRENNAND, T.A., RUSSELL, H.A., FINLEY, D. 1997. Surficial geology of the Oak Ridges Moraine area, southern Ontario . Geological Survey of Canada Open File 3456, scale 1:200,000.

BRENNAND, T.A., HINTON, M., SHARPE, D.R. 1995. Terrestrial Quaternary geologic and hydrogeologic framework - Port Hope Region (Oshawa-Cobourg). In Regional Geology and Tectonic Setting of Lake Ontario Region. Compiler, D.R. Sharpe. Geological Survey of Canada Open File Report 3114, 9 pp.

BRENNAND, T.A. 1994. Preliminary surficial geology site attributes, Oshawa area, Ontario (NTS 30M/15). Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 2877, 1 sheet, scale 1:50 000. [pdf]

BRENNAND, T.A., SHAW, J. 1994. Stop 11, Tweed esker. In A Field Guide to the Glacial and Postglacial Landscape of Southeastern Ontario and Part of Quebec . Compiled by R. Gilbert. Geological Survey of Canada , Bulletin 453, p. 42-43. [pdf]

Contract reports

BURKE, M.J. and BRENNAND, T.A. 2011. Delineation of esker sedimentary architecture with GPR: feasibility and survey design for enhanced indicator mineral exploration.  Report for the Geological Survey of Canada, contract MGM077280W, March 31, 2011.

Conference field trip guidebooks

BRENNAND, T.A., LIAN, O.B., LESEMANN, J.-E. 2009. Cordilleran ice sheet dynamics and decay, and postglacial landscape adjustment in southern Interior British Columbia. CANQUA 2009 pre-conference field trip guidebook, 26pp. [pdf]

SHARPE, D.R., BARNETT, P.J. (Compilers). 1997.   Where is the water?  Regional geological/hydrogeological framework, Oak Ridges Moraine area, southern Ontario.  Geological Association of Canada - Mineralogical Association of Canada, Joint Annual Meeting, Ottawa ‘97, Field Trip A1, Guidebook. [fieldtrip co-leader]

GILBERT, R. (Compiler) 1994.  A Field Guide to the Glacial and Postglacial Landscape of Southeastern Ontario and Part of Quebec.  Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 453. [contributor; stop leader]

Manuscripts in progress

PERKINS, A.J., BRENNAND, T.A. Refining the pattern and relative timing of Cordilleran Ice Sheet retreat: paleogeography, evolution and implications of late-glacial ice-marginal lake systems on the southern Fraser Plateau, British Columbia, submitted to Boreas.

PERKINS, A.J., BRENNAND, T.A., BURKE, M.J. Towards a morphogenetic classification of eskers: implications for modelling ice sheet hydrology, submitted to Quaternary Science Reviews.

NEUDORF, C.M., BRENNAND, T.A., LIAN, O.B. Controls on particle orientations in subglacial till deposited by the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, south-central British Columbia, Canada, to be submitted to Boreas, draft under revision

PERKINS, A.J., BRENNAND, T.A. Active ice-marginal retreat of the last Cordilleran Ice Sheet on the interior Plateau: glacidynamic inferences from moraine systems on the southern Fraser Plateau, British Columbia, Canada, to be submitted to Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, draft under revision.

PERKINS, A.J. and BRENNAND, T.A. Deglacial landforms and ice-marginal lake reconstruction, Boneparte Lake map-area, southern Fraser Plateau, British Columbia, Canada, to be submitted to Journal of Maps, draft map and manuscript under revision.

BRENNAND, T.A., LIAN, O.  Re-examination of a sedimentary sequence (Bowmanville bluffs) in the Lake Ontario basin spanning MIS 5e-2. To be submitted to Quaternary Science Reviews (analysis complete; writing in progress).

SJOGREN D.B, BRENNAND T.A., MOORMAN, B., BURKE, M.J. Subglacial decanting under the last Laurentide Ice Sheet, southern Alberta, Canada. To be submitted to Geology (analysis complete; writing in progress).

SJOGREN, D.B.,BRENNAND, T.A.  What controlled the distribution and character of eskers in the southwestern sector of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, Alberta, Canada? To be submitted to GSA Bulletin (analysis complete; writing in progress).

Conference presentations

CRIPPS, J.E., BRENNAND, T.A. 2014. Quantifcation of the paleogeography of glacial lakes in southern BC. WDCAG 2014, Victoria, BC [poster]

JORGE, M.G., BRENNAND, T.A. 2014. Comparison of two new techniques for the semi-automated extraction of subglacial longitudinal bedform footprints from DEMs: toward a reproducible and scalable method. WDCAG 2014, Victoria, BC [poster]

NEUDORF, C.M., BRENNAND, T.A., LIAN, O.B. 2013. Till forming processes beneath parts of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, British Columbia, Canada: Macroscale and microscale evidence and a new statistical technique for analyzing microstructure data. CANQUA-CGRG 2013, Edmonton, AB. [poster]

PERKINS, A.J., BRENNAND, T.A. 2013. Refining the pattern and relative timing of Cordilleran Ice Sheet retreat: paleogeography and evolution of late-glacial ice-marginal lakes on the southern Fraser Plateau, British Columbia. CANQUA-CGRG 2013, Edmonton, AB. [poster]

PERKINS, A.J., BRENNAND, T.A., BURKE, M.J. 2013. Esker types and meltwater touting on the southern Fraser Plateau near the margins of the last Cordilleran Ice Sheet: implications for modelling ice sheet hydrology. CANQUA-CGRG 2013, Edmonton, AB. (Perkins won the CANQUA David Proudfoot award (3rd prize) for best student talk)

PERKINS, A.J., BRENNAND, T.A., LIAN, O.B. 2013. Optical age constraints on decay of the last Cordilleran Ice Sheet: applying an age range-finder method and standardized regeneration curves to efficiently date late-glacial, ice-marginal lake sediments. CANQUA-CGRG 2013, Edmonton, AB. [poster]

BURKE, M.J., BRENNAND, T.A. and SJOGREN, D.B. 2013. What controlled the distribution and architecture of eskers in southern Alberta? - insights from sedimentary architecture. CANQUA-CGRG 2013, Edmonton, AB.

PETERS, J., BRENNAND, T.A. 2012. The sedimentary records of the late-Pleistocene Cordilleran Ice Sheet in the Purcell Trench and the formation of glacial Lake Purcell. BSRG annual meeting, Dublin, Ireland.

BRENNAND, T.A., SJOGREN, D.B., BURKE, M.J. 2012. What does the character and distribution of eskers tell us about Laurentide Ice Sheet hydrology? CWRA-CGU meeting, Banff.

PETERS, J., BRENNAND, T.A. 2012. Did the drainage of glacial Lake Kootenai, Purcell Trench, BC, have a geomorphic impact in the Channeled Scablands, WA? CWRA-CGU meeting, Banff.

BURKE, M.J., BRENNAND, T.A., PERKINS, A.J. 2012. The transient subglacial hydrology of a thin ice sheet: insight from erosional corridor landsytems, British Columbia, Canada. CWRA-CGU meeting, Banff.

BRENNAND, T.A., SJOGREN, D.B., BURKE, M.J. 2011. What controlled the distribution of Laurentide eskers? AGU 2011, San Francisco, CA. [poster C11E-0718]

BURKE, M.J.,BRENNAND, T.A., PERKINS, A.J. 2011. Esker formation due to supraglacial lake drainage to the bed of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet. AGU 2011, San Francisco, CA. [oral C13C-08].

PERKINS, A.J., BRENNANDd, T.A., BURKE, M.J. 2011. Esker formation and meltwater routing on and beneath the margins of the last Cordilleran Ice Sheet: implications for modelling ice sheet hydrology. AGU 2011, San Francisco, CA. [poster C11E-0717]

PERKINS, A.J., BRENNAND, T.A., BURKE, M.J. 2011. The genesis of an esker-like ridge at the margins of the last Cordilleran Ice Sheet. GeoHydro 2011, Quebec City. (Perkins won the CGRG Jean-Claude Dionne award for this talk)

BURKE, M.J., BRENNAND, T.A. PERKINS, A.J. 2011. Tunnel valley evolution in southern-central British Columbia: insights from Ground Penetrating Radar surveys. GeoHydro 2011, Quebec City.

LESEMANN, J.-E., BRENNAND, T.A. 2011. Evolution of a subglacial reservoir into a deglacial lake: insights into deglacial patterns and processes along the southern margin of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet. GeoHydro 2011, Quebec City. [pdf]

PETERS, J., BRENNAND, T.A. 2011. Exploring the northern extent and putative drainage route of glacial Lake Kootenai in the Kootenay valley, BC: preliminary findings. WDCAG, SFU, Burnaby.

BRENNAND, T.A., LIAN, O.B. 2009. Insight into Quaternary environmental change in the Lake Ontario basin revealed through new chronological and glaciogeological information. GSA Annual Meeting 2009, Portland, Oregon. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program. [pdf]

LESEMANN, J.-E., BRENNAND, T.A., LIAN, O.B. 2009. Re-examination of a MIS 4 Cordilleran stratotype: Okanagan Centre section, southern British Columbia, Canada. CANQUA 2009, Burnaby, BC, 3-8 May, 2009. [pdf]

BURR D.M., ENGA, M-T., WILLIAMS R.M.E, ZIMBELMAN J.R., HOWARD A.D., BRENNAND T.A. 2008. Pervasive aqueous paleoflow features in the Aeolis/Zephyria Plana region, Mars. GSA Annual Meeting 2008, Houston , Texas . Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program, paper 195-12.

BURR, D.M., WILLIAMS, R. M. E., HOWARD, A., ZIMBELMAN, J., BRENNAND, T.A., ENGA, M-T., WENDELL, K. 2008. Pervasive aqueous paleoflow features in the Aeolis/Zephyria Plana region, Mars. Second Valley Networks workshop on Mars , Moab , Utah , Conference Proceedings.

BRENNAND, T.A. 2007. Laurentide esker types: their geomorphic elements and sedimentary assemblages. GSA Annual Meeting, Denver Colorado . Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 39 (6): 116.

SJOGREN, D.B, BRENNAND, T.A., MOORMAN, B.J. 2007. Esker morpho-sedimentary relationships in southern Alberta , Canada . GSA Annual Meeting 2007, Denver Colorado . Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 39 (6): 117.

BRENNAND, T.A., LIAN, O.B., GODFREY, J. 2007. Optical dating and glacial geology of Clarke bed sediments in the Lake Ontario bluffs: revealing Quaternary environmental change in the Lake Ontario basin. CANQUA 2007, Ottawa , Ontario , 4-8 June, 2007.

NEUDORF, C.M., BRENNAND, T.A., LIAN, O.B. 2007. Depositional environments of the last Cordilleran ice sheet, British Columbia : investigating the link between micro and macro scales of observation. CANQUA 2007, Ottawa , Ontario , 4-8 June, 2007.

LESEMANN, J.-E., BRENNAND, T.A., LIAN, O.B. 2007. New insights on environmental change preserved in the Okanagan Centre stratotype, southern British Columbia , Canada . CANQUA 2007, Ottawa, Ontario, 4-8 June, 2007.

LESEMANN, J.-E., BRENNAND, T.A. 2007. Reconstructions of glacial lake paleohydrology in southern British Columbia. GSA Cordilleran section meeting, Bellingham, WA, 4-6 May 2007. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 39, No. 4.

NEUDORF, C.M., BRENNAND, T.A., LIAN, O.L. 2007. Subglacial process inferred from basal tills and the relationship between macro- and micro-scales of observation. GSA Cordilleran section meeting, Bellingham , WA , 4-6 May 2007. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 39, No. 4.

BRENNAND, T.A., LESEMANN, J.-E., SJOGREN, D.B., NEUDORF, C.M. 2007. Testing hypotheses of drumlin genesis against observations from a drumlin swarm on the Thompson Plateau, British Columbia, Canada. EGU 2007, Vienna , Austria , 15-20 April 2007.

LESEMANN, J.E., BRENNAND, T.A. 2007. Landform and sedimentary evidence of subglacial reservoir development and drainage along the southern margin of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet in British Columbia, Canada and northern Washington State, USA. EGU 2007, Vienna , Austria , 15-20 April 2007. [pdf]

SJOGREN, D.B., BRENNAND, T.A. 2007. What controls esker formation on the Canadian Prairies? EGU 2007, Vienna , Austria , 15-20 April 2007. [pdf]

NEUDORF, C.M., BRENNAND, T.A., LIAN, O.B. 2007. A Micromorphological Examination of Subglacial Tills Associated with the Last Cordilleran Ice Sheet, B.C. Annual Meeting, Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers, March 8-10, 2007. University College of the Fraser Valley , Abbotsford , British Columbia . Program and Abstract Volume. 27.

GODFREY, J., LIAN, O.B., BRENNAND, T.A. 2007. Dating sediments in the Bowmanville bluffs: a key to firming up the interpretation of environmental change in the Lake Ontario basin. Annual Meeting, Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers, March 8-10, 2007. University College of the Fraser Valley , Abbotsford , British Columbia . Program and Abstract Volume. 27. (Godfrey won the WDCAG poster prize (1st place Masters category) for this poster)

BRENNAND, T.A., SJOGREN, D.B. 2005. Subglacial landsystems in the southern Rocky Mountain Trench ( British Columbia , Canada ): toward understanding subglacial processes beneath the Cordilleran Ice Sheet. CANQUA 2005, Winnipeg , Manitoba , 5-8 June, 2005.

LESEMANN, J.-E., BRENNAND, T.A. 2005. Evaluating bed conditions and mechanisms of rapid ice flow in mountain-centred ice sheets (Cordilleran Ice Sheet), British Columbia , Canada . CANQUA 2005, Winnipeg , Manitoba , 5-8 June, 2005. (Lesemann won the CANQUA David Proudfoot award (3rd place) for best student talk)

AYERS, K.L., BRENNAND, T.A. 2005. Undulating terrain, a new subglacial bedform on the Southeastern Plains, Canada . CANQUA 2005, Winnipeg , Manitoba , 5-8 June, 2005. (Ayers won the CANQUA Guy Lortie award (1st place) for best student poster) [pdf]

SJOGREN, D.B., BRENNAND, T.A. 2005. What controlled the distribution and character of eskers in the southwestern sector of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, Alberta , Canada ? CANQUA 2005, Winnipeg , Manitoba , 5-8 June, 2005.

BRENNAND, T.A., SJOGREN, D.B. 2005. Subglacial conditions beneath the Cordilleran Ice Sheet: inferences from subglacial landsystems in the southern Rocky Mountain Trench ( British Columbia , Canada ). International Conference on Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products University of Wales , Aberystwyth, 22-27 August 2005.

LESEMANN, J.-E., BRENNAND, T.A. 2005. Subglacial bed conditions and glaciodynamic behaviour of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet along portions of its southern margin (British Columbia , Canada). International Conference on Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products University of Wales , Aberystwyth, 22-27 August 2005.

JOHNSEN, T.F., BRENNAND, T.A. 2005. The environment in and around late glacial ribbon lakes, southern Canadian Cordillera. International Conference on Glacial Sedimentary Processes and Products University of Wales , Aberystwyth, 22-27 August 2005.

JOHNSEN, T.F., BRENNAND, T.A. 2005. The highest glacio-isostatically tilted shorelines in the world, Canadian Cordillera. EGU general assembly, Vienna , Austria , April 2005.

LESEMANN, J.-E., BRENNAND, T.A. 2004. Volume, timing and mechanisms of sediment delivery to glaciated valleys along the southern margin of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet. AGU/CGU Joint Congress, Montreal , QC , May 2004. (Lesemann received a 2004 American Geophysical Union/Canadian Geophysical Union Joint Assembly Outstanding Student Paper Award for this presentation)

LESEMANN, J.-E., BRENNAND, T.A. 2003. Deglaciation of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet: emerging patterns and processes from interior British Columbia . GSA Annual Meeting 2003, Seattle , WA , November 2003. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 35, No. 6.

JOHNSEN, T.F., BRENNAND, T.A. 2003. Deglacial ribbon lakes, Thompson valley, British Columbia : implications for the style of Cordilleran Ice Sheet decay. GSA Annual Meeting 2003, Seattle , WA , November 2003. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 35, No. 6.

MOORMAN, B., SJOGREN, D.J., BRENNAND, T.A. 2003. Imaging the 3-D architecture of a Prairie esker with ground-penetrating radar: implications for inferring deglacial environments. GSA Annual Meeting 2003, Seattle , WA , November 2003. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 35, No. 6.

BRENNAND, T.A., RUSSELL, H.A.J., SHARPE, D.R. 2003. Tunnel channels of central southern Ontario : character, genesis and glaciodynamic implications. XVI INQUA Congress, Reno , Nevada , July 23-30, 2003 [pdf]

LESEMANN, J.-E., BRENNAND, T.A. 2003. Assessing substrate genesis and possible mechanisms of fast ice flow along the southern margin of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, British Columbia , Canada . XVI INQUA Congress, Reno , Nevada , July 23-30, 2003 [pdf]

AYERS, K.L., BRENNAND, T.A. 2003. Glacigenic undulating terrain on the southeastern plains of Canada : evidence of glaciotectonism or subglacial meltwater erosion? XVI INQUA Congress, Reno , Nevada , July 23-30, 2003 [pdf]

JOHNSEN, T.F., BRENNAND, T.A. 2003. Fishing for answers in the deglacial ribbon lakes of the Thompson basin, British Columbia : advances in Cordilleran paleohydrologic, paleoclimatic and isostatic reconstructions. XVI INQUA Congress, Reno , Nevada , July 23-30, 2003 [pdf]

BURT, A.K., BRENNAND, T.A., THORLEIFSON, L.H., MATILE, G.L.D. 2003. The nature and timing of meltwater deposition in Southeastern Manitoba, Canada . XVI INQUA Congress, Reno , Nevada , July 23-30, 2003

SJOGREN, D.B., BRENNAND, T.A., WOYWITKA, R.J. 2003. Late-glacial ice-sheet paleohydrology of southern Alberta . XVI INQUA Congress, Reno , Nevada , July 23-30, 2003 [pdf]

BRENNAND, T.A., SHAW, J. 2003. Ice sheet sediment transfer inferred from the geomorphic and sedimentary record. CGU 2003 Annual Meeting, Banff , Alberta , May 11-14, 2003

RUSSELL, H., SHARPE, D., BRENNAND, T, BARNETT, P., LOGAN, C. 2003. Tunnel channels of the Greater Toronto and Oak Ridges Moraine Areas, southern Ontario . Binghampton Symposium, Binghampton , NY , October 3-5, 2003.

BURT, A.K., BRENNAND, T.A., MATILE, G.L.D., THORLEIFSON, L.H. 2002. Reinterpretation of the Belair Moraine, southeastern Manitoba , Canada , based on a regional digital elevation model and new geological data. Geological Society of America , North-Central Section (36th) and Southeastern Section (51st) Joint Annual Meeting, Lexington , Kentucky , April 3-5, 2002. (Burt received an Outstanding Student Paper Award for her presentation)

JOHNSEN, T.F., BRENNAND, T.A. 2001. Glacial Lake Deadman , southern interior of British Columbia : paleogeography and paleoenvironment. CANQUA 2001, Whitehorse , Yukon , August 20 - 24, 2001. (Johnsen received CANQUA Proudfoot Award for best student talk)

BEANEY, C., BRENNAND, T.A. 2001. Drumlins of the central interior plateau, British Columbia : shape, size and distribution. CANQUA 2001, Whitehorse , Yukon , August 20 - 24, 2001

BRENNAND, T.A., BURT, A.K. 2001. The Belair Moraine, southern Manitoba : interlobate or grounding-line complex? CANQUA 2001, Whitehorse , Yukon , August 20 - 24, 2001

BRENNAND, T.A., BURT, A.K. 2001. The Belair Moraine: interlobate or grounding-line complex? 6th International Drumlin Symposium, Nicholas Copernicus University , Torun , Poland , June 17-23, 2001. Organized by the INQUA Commission in Glaciation.

RUSSELL, H.A.J., SHARPE, D.R., LOGAN , C., BRENNAND, T.A. 2001. Not without sedimentology: guiding groundwater studies in the Oak Ridges Moraine, southern Ontario . Geological Society of America , North-Central Section Annual Meeting, Bloomington , Illinois , April 22-24. Workshop on “Geological Models for Groundwater Flow Modeling” [pdf]

BRENNAND, T.A. 2000. How and why were long Laurentide eskers formed? Modern and Ancient Ice-marginal Landsystems, International Symposium, Keele University , April 29 - 30, 2000, extended abstracts volume, p. 13 - 15. Edited by Russell, A.J. and Marren, P.M. Organized by the Glacial Landsystems Working Group of the INQUA Commission on Glaciation Working Group 3: Sedimentology of Glaciogenic Deposits.

BURT, A., MATILE, G.L.D., BRENNAND, T.A., THORLEIFSON, L.H. 2000. Structure and origin of large glaciofluvial deposits in southeastern Manitoba , Canada . Geological Society of America , North-Central Section Annual Meeting, Indianapolis , Indiana , April 6-7, 2000, Abstracts with Program, 32 (4): A-7

SHARPE, D.R., RUSSELL, H.A.J., PULLAN, S.E., PUGIN, A., BRENNAND, T.A., BARNETT, P.J. 1999. Channel form and sediment fill of tunnel channels beneath the Oak Ridges Moraine, southern Ontario . Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver , Colorado . October 27-30, 1999, Abstracts with Programs, 31 (7), abstract 52340

SHARPE, D.R., BARNETT, P.J., BRENNAND, T.A., RUSSELL, H.A.J. 1999. Mapping regional hydrostratigraphic units in 3-dimensions: Newmarket Till in the Oak Ridges Moraine area. Southern Ontario . Geological Society of America 33rd Annual Meeting of the North Central Section, Champaign , Illinois , Abstract A-60

BRENNAND, T.A. 1998. Long, dendritic, water-terminating esker systems: their implications for Laurentide deglacial meltwater drainage and ice dynamics. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Toronto , 1998, Abstracts with Programs, 30 (7): A-113

SHAW, J., MUNRO‑STASCIUK, M., RAINS, R, B., SHARPE, D. R., PUGIN, A., PULLAN, S., LEWIS, C. F. M., TODD, B. J., BRENNAND, T.A., GILBERT, R. G. 1998. Regional landscape unconformities formed beneath the Laurentide ice sheet. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Toronto , 1998, Abstracts with Programs, 30 (7): A-113

PUGIN, A., SHARP, D. R., RUSSELL, H.A., BRENNAND, T.A., GORRELL, G., KENNY, F.M. 1998. The origin of the Oak Ridges Moraine, Southern Ontario and the role of glaciofluvial and glaciolacustrine processes. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Toronto , 1998, Abstracts with Programs, 30 (7), abstract 51664. Abstracts with Program, 30 (7): A-113

GORRELL, G., SHARPE, D.R., RUSSELL, H.A.J., BARNETT, P.J., BRENNAND, T.A., LOGAN , C. 1998. 3-D Quaternary geology mapping, Oak Ridges Moraine , Ontario , Canada : a contribution to the National Mapping Program (NATMAP). Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Toronto , 1998, Abstracts with Programs, 30 (7): A-180

SHARPE, D.R., BARNETT, P.J., RUSSELL, H.A.J., BRENNAND, T.A., GORRELL, G., DYKE, L.D., HINTON, M., PUGIN, A. 1998. Channel aquifers of the Oak Ridges Moraine area, southern Ontario . Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Toronto , 1998, Abstracts with Programs, 30 (7): A-402.

SHARPE, D.R., RUSSELL, H.A.J., BARNETT, P.J., BRENNAND, T.A. 1998. Three dimensional surficial mapping, Oak Ridges Moraine, Ontario , Canada . Geological Survey of America , Northeastern Section Annual Meeting, Abstracts with Program, 30 (1): 74.

SHARPE, D.R., RUSSELL, H.A.J BARNETT, P.J., BRENNAND, T.A. 1998. Surficial Geological Mapping in the Greater Toronto and Oak Ridges Areas, southern Ontario . "Groundwater in a watershed context", Burlington , Dec '98.

BRENNAND, T.A., RUSSELL, H.A.J., LOGAN , C. 1997. Development of a regional geoscience database: application to hydrogeologic investigations, Oak Ridges Moraine area, southern Ontario . Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Ottawa , May 19‑21, 1997. Abstract Volume, 22: A-17.

SHARPE, D.R., BARNETT, P.J., BRENNAND, T.A., RUSSELL, H.A.J., GORRELL, G., DYKE, L.D., HINTON, M.J., PULLEN, S.E., PUGIN, A. 1997. Groundwater evaluation in the Oak Ridges Moraine area, southern Ontario : Application of regional geologic and sedimentologic models; Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Ottawa , May 19‑21, 1997. Abstracts Volume, 22: A-135.

SHARPE, D.R., RUSSELL, H.A.J, BRENNAND, T.A., BARNETT, P.J., GORRELL, G., LOGAN , C., AND MOORE , A., KENNY, F.M., FINLEY, D., STACEY, P. 1997. Desktop GIS in geological mapping, Oak Ridges Moraine, southern Ontario - a National Mapping Program study; Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Ottawa, May 19‑21, 1997. Abstracts Volume, 22: A-135 also: In Proceedings, Water Resource Investigations of the Oak Ridges Moraine: Geology and Hydrogeology, edited by Russell, H.A.J., Sharpe, D.R., Hinton, M.J., and Johnson, F., Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 3540, p. 55.

BARNETT, P.J., SHARPE, D.R., RUSSELL, H., BRENNAND, T.A., GORRELL, G., PULLAN, S, KENNY, F.M. 1997. On the origin of the Oak Ridges Moraine. Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Ottawa , May 19-21, 1997. Abstracts Volume, 22: A-8 also: In Proceedings, Water Resource Investigations of the Oak Ridges Moraine: Geology and Hydrogeology, edited by Russell, H.A.J., Sharpe, D.R., Hinton, M.J., and Johnson, F., Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 3540, p. 24.

KENNY, F., PAQUETTE, J., RUSSELL, H.A.J., BRENNAND, T.A., SHARPE, D.R. 1997. The development and geoscience applications of Digital Elevation Models: Examples from the Oak Ridges Moraine NATMAP Project. Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Ottawa , May 19-21, 1997. Abstracts Volume, 22: A-78 also: In Proceedings, Water Resource Investigations of the Oak Ridges Moraine: Geology and Hydrogeology, edited by Russell, H.A.J., Sharpe, D.R., Hinton, M.J., and Johnson, F., Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 3540, p. 34.

KENNY, F., RUSSELL, H.A.J, SHARPE, D.R., BRENNAND, T.A., BARNETT, P.J. 1997. Physiographic analysis of the Oak Ridges Moraine Area, southern Ontario ; an application of a Digital Elevation Model. Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Ottawa , May 19-21, 1997. Abstracts Volume, 22: A78 also: In Proceedings, Water Resource Investigations of the Oak Ridges Moraine: Geology and Hydrogeology, edited by Russell, H.A.J., Sharpe, D.R., Hinton, M.J., and Johnson, F., Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 3540, p. 50.

BRENNAND, T.A., LOGAN , C., KENNY, F., MOORE , A., RUSSELL, H.A.J., SHARPE, D.R., BARNETT, P.J. 1997. Bedrock topography of the Greater Toronto and Oak Ridges Moraine areas, southern Ontario . Geological Survey of Canada Open File 3419. In Proceedings, Water Resource Investigations of the Oak Ridges Moraine: Geology and Hydrogeology, edited by Russell, H.A.J., Sharpe, D.R., Hinton, M.J., and Johnson, F., Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 3540, p. 44.

RUSSELL, H.A.J., BRENNAND, T.A., LOGAN , C. 1997. Development of a regional geoscience database: application to hydrogeologic investigations, Oak Ridges Moraine area, southern Ontario . In Proceedings, Water Resource Investigations of the Oak Ridges Moraine: Geology and Hydrogeology, edited by Russell, H.A.J., Sharpe, D.R., Hinton, M.J., and Johnson, F., Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 3540, p. 53.

RUSSELL, H.A.J., BRENNAND, T.A., SHARPE, D.R., LOGAN , C. 1997. The geological coding of sediment descriptions and the MOEE water well database: an example from the Oak Ridges Moraine Project. In Proceedings, Water Resource Investigations of the Oak Ridges Moraine: Geology and Hydrogeology, edited by Russell, H.A.J., Sharpe, D.R., Hinton, M.J., and Johnson, F., Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 3540, p. 36.

SHARPE, D.R., BARNETT, P.J., BRENNAND, T.A., RUSSELL, H.A.J., FINLEY, D., AND GORRELL, G. 1997. Surficial geology of the Greater Toronto area: a 1:200 000 scale GIS synthesis map. In Proceedings, Water Resource Investigations of the Oak Ridges Moraine: Geology and Hydrogeology, edited by Russell, H.A.J., Sharpe, D.R., Hinton, M.J., and Johnson, F., Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 3540, p. 56.

SHARPE, D.R., BARNETT, P.J., BRENNAND, T.A., GORRELL, G, RUSSELL, H.A.J. 1997. Surficial geology of the Oak Ridges Moraine-NATMAP area, Ontario , Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 3456. In Proceedings, Water Resource Investigations of the Oak Ridges Moraine: Geology and Hydrogeology, edited by Russell, H.A.J., Sharpe, D.R., Hinton, M.J., and Johnson, F., Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 3540, p. 57.

SHARPE, D.R., BARNETT, P.J., BRENNAND, T.A., RUSSELL, H.A.J., GORRELL, G., DYKE, L.D., HINTON, M.J., PULLEN, S.E., PUGIN, A. 1997. Groundwater prospects in the Oak Ridges Moraine Area, Southern Ontario : Application of regional geologic and sedimentologic models. In Proceedings, Water Resource Investigations of the Oak Ridges Moraine: Geology and Hydrogeology, edited by Russell, H.A.J., Sharpe, D.R., Hinton, M.J., and Johnson, F., Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 3540, p. 25.

SHARPE, D.R., DYKE, L.D., HINTON, M.J., PULLEN, S.E., RUSSELL, H.A.J., BRENNAND, T.A., BARNETT, P.J., PUGIN, A. 1997. A regional geologic model for the Oak Ridges Moraine area, southern Ontario : groundwater prospects. In Proceedings, Water Resource Investigations of the Oak Ridges Moraine: Geology and Hydrogeology, edited by Russell, H.A.J., Sharpe, D.R., Hinton, M.J., and Johnson, F., Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 3540, p. 58.

KENNY, F., RUSSELL, H.A.J., SHARPE, D.R. BRENNAND, T.A., BARNETT, P.J., SHARPE, D.R. 1997. The application of integrated imagery and geological data in an environmental geoscience mapping program, The Oak Ridges Moraine, southern Ontario . GER 97, Ottawa , May 24‑30, 1997.

RUSSELL, H.A.J., SHARPE, D.R., BARNETT, P.J., BRENNAND, T.A., GORRELL, G., FINLEY, D. 1997. Oak Ridges Moraine NATMAP project: an OGS-GSC regional mapping initiative. GSC FORUM 1997, Ottawa , Ontario.

BRENNAND, T.A. 1996. Why do ice sheets unzipper? Northwest Glaciologists Meeting, University of British Columbia , October 25-26, 1996.

RUSSELL, H.A.J., BRENNAND, T.A., KENNY, F., SHARPE, D.R., BARNETT, P.J. 1996. The application of GIS to a Quaternary basin analysis, Oak Ridges Moraine area, southern Ontario . Geomatics 1996, 8th international Conference on Geomatics, May 28-30, Ottawa.

BRENNAND, T.A., SHAW, J., SHARPE, D.R. 1995. An alternative interpretation of interlobate moraines and their implications for the deglacial hydrological organization of ice sheets: the Harricana Moraine, northern Quebec . CANQUA-CGRG Joint Meeting 1995, St. John's , Programme, Abstracts and Field Guides, p. CA5.

BRENNAND, T.A., SHAW, J., SHARPE, D.R. 1995. Regional‑scale meltwater erosion and deposition patterns, northern Quebec , Canada . International Glaciological Society Meeting , Iceland.

SHARPE, D.R., HINTON, M., DYKE, L.D., PULLAN, S.E., BRENNAND, T.A., RUSSELL, H.A.., LOGAN , C., MOORE , A. 1995. Hydrogeology and environmental geology in the Oak Ridges Moraine NATMAP area. Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, 1995 Ontario Mines and Mineral Symposium ( Toronto , Ontario ), Program.

BRENNAND, T.A., SHARPE, D.R., RUSSELL, H.A.J., BARNETT, P.J., ARNOTT, W. 1995. Quaternary Architecture of the Oak Ridges Moraine NATMAP area. GSC FORUM 1995, "New Directions for Geosciences", poster 85.

BRENNAND, T.A., RUSSELL, H.A.J., PELLETIER, C., SHAW, T., PILON, J. 1995. Applications of ground probing radar (GPR) to environmental problems: Oak Ridges Moraine and environs NATMAP. GSC FORUM 1995, "New Directions for Geosciences", poster 26B.

RUSSELL, H.A.J., BRENNAND, T.A., SHARPE, D.R., LOGAN , C. 1995. Quaternary and environmental geology in the Oak Ridges Moraine NATMAP area: digital compilation. GSC FORUM 1995, "New Directions for Geosciences", poster 83.

JUDGE, A., BRENNAND, T.A., BURGESS, M., KETTLES, I. 1995. Applications of GPR to problems in environmental geoscience: current research at the Geological Survey of Canada. USGS 10th Mckelvey Forum , Washington.

BRENNAND, T.A., SHARPE, D.R., RUSSELL, H.A.J., LOGAN , C. 1994. Quaternary and environmental geology in the Oak Ridges Moraine NATMAP area: digital compilation. Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, 1994 Ontario Mines and Mineral Symposium ( Toronto , Ontario ), Program, poster H9.

BRENNAND, T.A. 1994. Mapping environmental geology in the Oak Ridges Moraine and environs: a GSC NATMAP initiative, Oshawa area. Canadian Sedimentological Research Group Conference, Environmental Geology of Urbanized Regions ( Toronto , Ontario ).

BRENNAND, T.A. 1993. Macroforms and rhythmic sedimentary sequences in subglacial eskers, south-central Ontario : implications for esker genesis and meltwater regime. Third International Conference on Geomorphology, Hamilton , Ontario . Programme with Abstracts, 3: 110.

SHARPE, D.R., BRENNAND, T.A., RUSSELL, H.A., BARNETT, P.J. 1993. Mapping environmental geology in the Oak Ridges Moraine/Greater Toronto area: an OGS/GSC NATMAP initiative. Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, 1993 Ontario Mines and Mineral Symposium ( Toronto , Ontario ), Program, poster: H51.

BRENNAND, T.A. 1992. Large-scale bedforms and macroforms in subglacial eskers: implications for esker genesis and meltwater regime. Symposium on Subglacial Processes, Sediments and Landforms. University of Ulster , Northern Ireland .

BRENNAND, T.A. 1991. Large-scale bedforms in the Harricana glaciofluvial ridge, Québec, and their implications for meltwater regimes. Geological Association of Canada Annual Meeting, Toronto . Program with Abstracts, 16: A14.

BRENNAND, T.A. 1991. Form and sedimentology of the Harricana glaciofluvial system, Québec, and their implications for meltwater regimes. Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Kingston , Ontario . Program with Abstracts, 40: 78.