Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by St. John’s College. Michael Church is a Professor Emeritus at UBC. Church’s research interests focus on the morphodynamics of rivers at all scales from steepland streams to large rivers. He is currently involved in long-term studies of sediment transport and stability in Fraser, Peace and Mackenzie rivers. The Fraser River Study is concerned with finding a way to manage the river to maintain or improve the existing flood protection while maintaining the ecological character of the river. The Sediment transport is also studied in an experimental program conducted in our environmental hydraulics laboratory. Church has been recognized as a world leader in fluvial sediment transport and the interpretation of river channel changes. In addition, he is interested in fluvial landscape evolution over intermediate time scales (order 10,000 years), history, and methodology of geomorphology.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Church, M., & Moore, D. (1989). Appreciation. Atmospheric Environment (1967), 23(6), i-i. doi:10.1016/0004-6981(89)90143-1 [Link]
Jakob, M., & Church, M. (2011). The trouble with floods. Canadian Water Resources Journal, 36(4), 287-292. doi:10.4296/cwrj3604928 [Link]
Dugmore, A., Borthwick, D. M., & Church, M. J. (2007). The role of climate in settlement and landscape change in the north atlantic islands: An assessment of cumulative deviations in high-resolution proxy climate records. Human Ecology [H.W.Wilson – SSA], 35(2), 169. [Link]
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