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 CHRIS KOWALCHUK, MSc
Research Interests:
•   Quaternary and glacial geology
•   Surficial geology mapping
•   Sedimentology

Supervisor: Ward
 JON RIEDEL, PhD
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
 JANICE BRAHNEY, MSc
Research Interests:
•   Isotope geochemistry
•   Environmental biogeochemistry
•   Paleoecology / Paleolimnology

Supervisor: Clague
 TOM LAKEMAN, MSc
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
 JOE KOCH, PhD
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
 KENNA WILKIE, MSc
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
 VANESSA EGGINTON, MSc
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
 GREGORY HARTMAN, MSc
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
 ROBIN McKILLOP, MSc
Research Interests:
•   Mountain hazards, especially moraine-dammed lakes
•   Hazard assessment
•   Effects of climate change on glacial hazards

Supervisor: Clague
 MAJID AL-SUWAIDI, MSc
Research Interests:
•   Cave sediments
•   Quaternary paleoenvironmental change
•   West coast of Vancouver Island

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

Supervisor: Clague
 TRACY ARSENAULT, MSc
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
 LAUREN A. WALKER, MSc
Research Interests:
•   Late Pleistocene and Holocene climate change on small alpine lakes
•   Palynology

Supervisor: Clague
 DUANE FROESE, PDF
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
 GRANT ZAZULA, PhD
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
 JEFF GUTSELL, MSc
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
 CRYSTAL HUSCROFT, MSc
Research Interests:
•   Glacial geomorphology
•   Landslide processes involving permafrost
•   Sedimentology
•   Stratigraphy

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

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

Supervisor: Clague
 BRIAN MENOUNOS, PDF
Supervisor: Clague
 JOHN ORWIN, PDF
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
 ALBERTO V. REYES, MSc
Research Interests:
•   Holocene glaciation
•   Ice dammed lakes
•   Effects of climate change on alpine geomorphic processes
•   Rock glaciers
•   Dendrochronology

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

Supervisor: Clague