ALUMNI

FACULTY | PhD CANDIDATES | MSc CANDIDATES | ALUMNI

Research Interests:: • Quaternary and glacial geology; • Surficial geology mapping; • Sedimentology; Supervisor: Ward

Research Interests:: • Late Pleistocene glacial geology and history of the Skagit Valley in Washington and British Columbia; • Quaternary geology and history of the Pacific Northwest; • Long term monitoring of glaciers and rRivers; • Erosion control on rivers and reservoirs; • Late Pleistocene and Holocene climate change; • Natural hazards and floodplain management; Supervisor: Clague

Research Interests:: • Isotope geochemistry; • Environmental biogeochemistry; • Paleoecology / Paleolimnology; Supervisor: Clague

Research Interests:: • History of the northern Cordilleran ice sheet; • Late glacial paleoclimates of the Canadian Cordillera; • Tephrochronology of northern British Columbia; • Quaternary stratigraphy of western Canada; • History of Quaternary glaciations in the western Canadian Arctic; • Quaternary paleoclimates of Banks Island, NWT; Supervisor: Clague

Research Interests:: • Neoglacial climate and environmental change in high mountains; • Dendroecology, dendroclimatology; • Annual growth processes in trees; • Treeline ecology; • Patagonian Andes, Coast Mountains, St. Elias Mountains; Supervisor: Clague

Research Interests:: • Quaternary and Holocene climatic variability; • Glacioisostatic effects and paleoenvironmental change; • Ice sheet dynamics, deglacial chronology and paleoenvironmental reconstructions in high latitude/ circumpolar environments; • Neoglacial (Little Ice Age) climatic variability and associated sedimentary responses; Supervisor: Clague

Research Interests:: • Climate change/atmospheric science; • Investigating climate variability in northern British Columbia and correlating meteorological conditions to landslide events; • Jokulhlaups in northwestern British Columbia; Supervisor: Clague

Research Interests:: • Quaternary geology and geomorphology; • Glacial geomorphology, landscape evolution, and drainage development; • Glacial lake sedimentation; • Geotechnique, including slope stability and soil settlement issues; Supervisor: Clague

Research Interests:: • Mountain hazards, especially moraine-dammed lakes; • Hazard assessment; • Effects of climate change on glacial hazards; Supervisor: Clague

Research Interests:: • Cave sediments; • Quaternary paleoenvironmental change; • West coast of Vancouver Island; Supervisor: Ward

Research Interests:: • Geotechnics (slope stability, drainage assessments, resource exploration, etc.); • Natural Hazards (landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc.); • Environmental geology; • Micropaleontology (specifically foraminifera); Supervisor: Clague

Research Interests:: • History of Neoglacial climate and environmental change in the high Coast Range Mountains; • Reconstruction of vegetation history, using palynology, near the Tiedemann Glacier, high Coast Range Mountains; • Neoglacial fluctuations at the Tiedemann Glacier; Supervisor: Clague

Research Interests:: • Late Pleistocene and Holocene climate change on small alpine lakes; • Palynology; Supervisor: Clague

Research Interests:: • Geomorphic and climatic controls on the development of the Klondike placers; • Geologic record of Yukon River drainage evolution over the last few million years; • Environmental impacts of large volcanic eruptions in central Yukon; • Late Cenozoic (Pliocene and Pleistocene); • Eastern Beringia; Supervisor: Clague

Research Interests:: • Late Cenozoic paleoecology, paleontology and geology of Beringia (Yukon and Alaska); • Plant macrofossils, opal phytoliths, and fossil pollen; • Circumpolar plant ecology and environmental change; • Effects of continental glaciation on phytogeography and vegetation composition; • Modern analogues of Pleistocene vegetation; • Early North American archaeology and Eurasian Upper Paleolithic

Research Interests:: • Quaternary geology and natural/environmental hazards; • Stratigraphy and sedimentology; • Use of ground penetrating radar to investigate subsurface sediments; • Western Vancouver Island; Supervisor: Clague

Research Interests:: • Glacial geomorphology; • Landslide processes involving permafrost; • Sedimentology; • Stratigraphy; Supervisor: Ward

Research Interests:: • Surficial geology and geochemistry; • Ice flow reconstructions; • Deglacial chronologies from radiocarbon and cosmogenic dating; • Coastal dynamics and hazards; Supervisor: Ward

Research Interests:: • Quaternary geology and geomorphology; • Natural hazards, especially catastrophic outburst floods from moraine-dammed lakes; • Coast Mountains; • River and coastal geomorphology; Supervisor: Clague

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Supervisor: Clague

Research Interests:: • Magnitude/frequency changes in snow avalanches in the Canadian Cordillera; • Alpine hazards - in particular rock and snow avalanches and debris flows; • Suspended sediment transfer patterns from deglacierizing basins; • Cold-climate landforms and processes; • Little Ice Age glacial maximum in southeast Iceland; Supervisor: Clague

Research Interests:: • Holocene glaciation; • Ice dammed lakes; • Effects of climate change on alpine geomorphic processes; • Rock glaciers; • Dendrochronology; Supervisor: Clague

Research Interests:: • Tertiary drainage networks in central British Columbia; • Regional-scale geomorphology; • Quaternary geology; • Natural hazards; • Remote sensing; Supervisor: Clague