John England, University of Alberta
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Professor Emeritus Edmonton, Alberta john.england@ualberta.ca
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I have conducted more than 25 field seasons throughout Arctic Canada, including Greenland. I have also conducted research in the Karakoram Mountains, Northern Pakistan, another tectonically-active, arid, glaciated mountain region which shares many similarities to Arctic environments.
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I have conducted more than 25 field seasons throughout Arctic Canada, including Greenland. I have also conducted research in the Karakoram Mountains, Northern Pakistan, another tectonically-active, arid, glaciated mountain region which shares many similarities to Arctic environments.
Currently, I am extending the past two decades of research in the alpine sector of the Queen Elizabeth Islands (predominantly Axel Heiberg and Ellesmere islands) into the lower terrain of the westernmost archipelago where the history of glaciation and sea level change is poorly documented. Virtually all of the alpine sector was inundated by the Innuitian Ice Sheet during the Late Wisconsinan, and we have recently mapped regional dispersal trains (one ~ 600 km in length) showing that the Innuitian Ice Sheet extended westward across the archipelago to the polar continental shelf. In the southwestern sector of these islands we are investigating the relationship between the Innuitian Ice Sheet, the northwest margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, and local, island-based ice caps that may have separated or extended from them. In addition to documenting the terrestrial record for late Quaternary and Holocene environmental change, we also plan to connect our research increasingly with studies being conducted on the depositional history of the Arctic Ocean Basin.
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Currently, I am extending the past two decades of research in the alpine sector of the Queen Elizabeth Islands (predominantly Axel Heiberg and Ellesmere islands) into the lower terrain of the westernmost archipelago where the history of glaciation and sea level change is poorly documented. Virtually all of the alpine sector was inundated by the Innuitian Ice Sheet during the Late Wisconsinan, and we have recently mapped regional dispersal trains (one ~ 600 km in length) showing that the Innuitian Ice Sheet extended westward across the archipelago to the polar continental shelf. In the southwestern sector of these islands we are investigating the relationship between the Innuitian Ice Sheet, the northwest margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, and local, island-based ice caps that may have separated or extended from them. In addition to documenting the terrestrial record for late Quaternary and Holocene environmental change, we also plan to connect our research increasingly with studies being conducted on the depositional history of the Arctic Ocean Basin.
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