Tom Lakeman

PhD student at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

Good day, I come from the hustle'n'bustle of Mayerthorpe, Alberta. I completed my B.Sc. in geology at the University of Alberta in April 2004 and began my M.Sc. at Simon Fraser University in September 2004.

My undergraduate thesis research was conducted on Melville Island, Arctic Canada and involved establishing the timing and effects of former episodic ice shelves in the northwest sector of the Laurentide Ice Sheet.

My masters research concerns former environmental variability in the Finlay River and Kwadacha Wilderness areas of northern British Columbia. The objective is to reconstruct the style and extent of LGM glaciation in the area and evaluate the possibility of a regional glacier re-advance during deglaciation. This will be achieved through the analyses of lake sediment cores, collecting terrestrial macrofossils for AMS radiocarbon dating, and obtaining cosmogenic exposure ages from boulders on moraines and from areas upslope from moraines that became ice-free at earlier times. The results of this work will be the production of a local map of Late Pleistocene-early Holocene glacial deposits and a numerical glacial chronology for this area. These products will serve as the basis for further studies concerning the northern Cordilleran Ice Sheet, whose extent, timing, and style of deglaciation has remained largely speculative.

Current Position:: Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Education: 2007-present Ph.D. Quaternary geology and geomorphology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (Supervisor: Dr. John England); 2004-2006 M.Sc. Quaternary geology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia (Supervisor: Dr. John Clague); 2000-2004 B.Sc. (Hons.) Geology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

Publications:: England, J.H., Lakeman, T.R., Lemmen, D.S., Bednarski, J., Stewart, T.G., and Evans, D.J.A. (2008) A millennial-scale record of Arctic Ocean sea ice variability. Geophysical Research Letters. In Press.; Lakeman, T.R., Clague, J.J., Menounos, B., Osborn, G.D., Jensen, B.J.L., and Froese, D.G. (2008) Holocene tephras in lake cores from northern British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. In Press.; Lakeman, T.R., Clague, J.J., and Menounos, B. (2008) Advance of alpine glaciers during final retreat of the Cordilleran ice sheet in the Finlay River area, northern British Columbia, Canada. Quaternary Research, 69: 188-200.; Menounos, B., Clague, J.J., Osborn, G., Luckman, B.H., Lakeman, T.R., and Minkus, R. (2007) Western Canadian glaciers advance in concert with climate change circa 4.2 ka. Geophysical Research Letters, 35, doi:10.1029/2008GL033171.; Clague, J.J. and Lakeman, T.R. (2007) Response of glaciers and vegetation to Younger Dryas cooling in western North America. Current Research in the Pleistocene, 24: 3-7.

For more information, please send e.mail to: tlakeman@ualberta.ca
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