Outline: Joseph R. Desloges
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Professor PhD University of British Columbia (1987) MSc University of Wisconsin-Madison (1982) BES University of Waterloo, Ontario (1980) Phone: (416) 978-5234/978-5782 Location: Room 208, PGB (45 St. George) Email: desloges@geog.utoronto.ca |
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| Research Interests |
| The influence of rivers, glaciers and humans on landform development in the northern hemisphere. Mainly in the mountain areas of Canada, Greenland and Iceland with emphasis on B.C., the southern Yukon and southern Ontario. Holocene fluvial and glacial landscape reconstruction using sedimentary archives. Reconstruction of extreme events Urbanization impacts on stream erosion River geoarchaeology |
| Selected Publications |
| Thornbush, M.J. and Desloges, J.R. 2011. Environmental change and evidence for Archaic and Woodland floodplain occupation along the lower Nottawasaga River, southern Ontario, Canada. In: Brown, A.G., Basell, L.S., and Butzer, K.W. (eds), Geoarchaeology, Climate Change, Sustainability, Geological Society of America Special Paper 476, p. 105-116, doi:10.1130/2011.2476(09). |
| Dirszowsky, R.W. and Desloges, J.R. 2010. Testing lake sediment and dendrogeomorphic proxies for Little Ice Age environmental change in the upper Fraser River area, British Columbia, Canada. Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography, 92 (3), pg. 393-410. |
| Chakraborty K., Finkelstein S., Desloges, J.R. and Chow N. 2010 Holocene paleoenvironmental changes inferred from diatom assemblages |
| Shugar, D., R. Kostaschuk, P. Ashmore, J. Desloges and L. Burge. 2007. In-situ jet-testing of the erosional resistance of cohesive streambeds. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering 34: 1-4. |
| Hodder, K., R. Gilbert and J. R. Desloges. 2007. Assessment of varved glaciolacustrine sedimentary records as hydroclimate proxy. Journal of Paleolimnology 38: 365-394. |
| Hodder, K., J. R. Desloges and R. Gilbert. 2006. Pattern and timing of sediment infill at glacier-fed Mud Lake: Implications for Late-Glacial and Holocene Environments in the Monashee Mountain Region of British Columbia, Canada. The Holocene 16(5): 705-716. |
| Gilbert, R. and J. R. Desloges. 2005. The record of Glacial Lake Champagne in Kusawa Lake, southwestern Yukon Territory. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 42: 2127–2140. |
| Gilbert, R., J. Desloges, Serink A. Lamoureux and K. Hodder K. 2005. The geomorphic and paleoenvironmental record in sediments of Atlin Lake, northern British Columbia. Geomorphology 77: 4-16. |
| Dirszowsky, R. and J. R. Desloges. 2004. Evolution of the Moose Lake delta, British Columbia: implications for holocene environmental change in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Geomorphology 57: 75-93. |
| Desloges, J. R., R. Gilbert, N. Nielsen, N., C. Christiansen, M. Rasch and R. Øhlenschlager. 2002. Holocene glacimarine sedimentary environments in fiords of Disko Bugt and West Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews and Research 21(9): 947-963. |
| Teaching (2009-2010) |
| GGR 201H1S - Geomorphology GGR 390H1F - Field Methods Complete versions of course syllabi and other course information will be available via Blackboard at the start of each term. See http://portal.utoronto.ca. You will need your UTOR ID and Password to login to Portal. For those registered in the course, you will see the information linked to your portal page. |
