Photo gallery

 

These are some low resolution photographs mainly from field research sites over the past decade. Most of these are described in various publications listed under Research

             

            Atlin Lake is the largest lake in the Cordillera – a beautiful site for lacustrine research in northwestern BC

            Chilko Lake in the Coast Range Mountains of central BC was the subject of work in the 1990s

            Kusawa Lake  in the southwestern Yukon was part of the vast Lake Champagne complex in the early Holocene

            Recent work has focused on nearby Kluane Lake, and its inflow from the Slims River with its remarkable turbidity currents and on Mucho Lake in northern British Columbia.  Our research vessel, W.H. Mathews provides the logistic support.

            Bear Lake on Devon Island, Nunavut, was the subject of study with then PDF Scott Lamoureux and MSc Ted Lewis

            Expedition Fiord is a remarkable region of the High Arctic.  A great place to wake up in the morning

            The work at Phewa Tal, a lake at Pokara in western Nepal for Jamie Ross’ M.Sc. was an amazing research and cultural experience

            The Danish Canadian Fjord Studies group has been working  Disko Island, West Greenland, for more than a decade.  Collaboration has involved colleagues from Canada (J.R. Desloges, Morten Rasch, Niels Nielsen, and Janis Dale) and more recently Henrik Moller. The research vessel Porsild attached to the Arctic Station, Godhavn, has supported our work in fine fashion. In August 1857, then Capt’n Leopold M’Clintock wrote in his book “Voyage of the Fox” “I do not know a more enticing spot in Greenland for a week’s … yachting than Disko Fiord … The scenery is charming, lofty hills of trap rock with unusually rich slopes (for the 70th parallel) descending to the fiord, and strewed with boulders of gneiss and granite … The weather is pleasant, food delicious and abundant, and the labor an agreeable pastime.” (p. 24).  On this voyage M’Clintock subsequently located the only written record of the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin at Victory Point, King William Island.

            At Kangerlussuaq also in West Greenland, Drew Hyatt and I have been working on some spectacular erosion forms in bedrock (1 2 3 4)

            Partly as a result of this work, the Foreign Affairs Canada visiting chair in arctic science allowed me to live in Copenhagen in 2005 and absorb its culture and beauty.  As well, I was able to travel to NE Greenland to participate in GeoArc05, centred on Sabine Island and Walrus Island nearby.

            A generous opportunity to work with the U.S. Antarctic Program on the Antarctic Peninsula from the research vessels Palmer and Gould has revealed some spectacular scenery:  Humphrey Heights, Lallemand Fiord and the Muller Ice Shelf, Neumayer Narrows at Andvers Island, the Larsen Ice Shelf and nearby Robertson Island and some stormy seas in the Drake Passage and around the Peninsula.  Work focuses on marine geology.  Even the wildlife is remarkable.

            Even the local lakes with the potential for varves in the Holocene sediments and the opportunity for canoeing are interesting.