Tracy Brennand (MA Cantab; PhD Alberta): associate 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 incorporates digital terrain modeling, topographic surveying, remote sensing, sedimentology, shallow geophysical techniques and geochronology in the exciting search for knowledge. To find out more about my research visit my research links, or contact me at tabrenna@sfu.ca.

Matthew Burke (PhD Nothumbria): post-doctoral researcher

Post-doctoral project: 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

PhD. thesis (2008): GPR Investigations of the Sedimentary Architecture of Jökulhlaup Eskers: Skeiðarárjökull, Iceland, and Bering Glacier, Alaska. Northumbria University, England.

Andrew Perkins: PhD. candidate

PhD. thesis: Deglacial chronology and style of the Fraser and Thompson plateaus and environs, British Columbia

To find out more, contact Andrew at ajp7@sfu.ca

Research awards: 2010 GSA graduate student research grant

Jerome Lesemann: PhD. candidate

PhD thesis: Evolution of Cordilleran landscapes with special reference to glaciofluvial and glaciolacustrine processes

To find out more, contact Jerome at jerome.lesemann@geo.au.dk

Research awards: 2005 CANQUA Proudfoot award for best student paper (3rd place); 2004 AGU/CGU Outstanding Student Paper award; 2001 & 2002 GSA graduate student research grants

Jared Peters: MSc. candidate

MSc thesis: Glacial Lake Kootenai: assessing a possible northern jokulhlaup and its contributions to the evolution of the Channeled Scablands

To find out more, contact Jared at jared_peters@sfu.ca

Research awards: 2010 GSA graduate student research grant

Christina Neudorf (MSc. SFU)

MSc thesis (2008): Relationships between the macroscale sedimentology and micromorphology of glacigenic diamictons in south-central British Columbia [pdf]

To find out more, contact Chrissy at cmn821@uow.edu.au

Research awards: 2006 NSERC PGS-M; 2006 GSA graduate student research grant

Present position: PhD candidate, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Timothy Johnsen (MSc. SFU; PhD Stockholm)

MSc thesis (2004): Late glacial lakes of the Thompson basin, southern interior of British Columbia: paleogeography and paleoenvironment [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