Our Research
The GCR lab is a research facility and team that focuses on better understanding past glacier and ice sheet responses to global climatic change throughout the Quaternary period (the last 2.6 million years). Using a wide range of laboratory and analytical procedures combined with computer modelling tools, this work aims to quantify the timing and rate of landscape change in terrestrial cryosphere environments.
Research Interests
Quaternary geomorphology and sedimentology of western Canada
Modelling and reconstruction of glacial lake outburst floods
Glacial erosion processes within Crystalline bedrock regions
Sophie L. Norris, PhD
Hello!
I’m a Quaternary geoscientist who uses geomorphic and sedimentary signals from palaeo-ice sheets to better understand their behaviour in the past. I also use geochronological techniques and remote sensing to aid my work and ultimately understand when past ice activity happened and to quantify its effects.
Credentials
2016 – 2020
Ph.D. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, CA
Thesis entitled: Dynamic response of the southwestern Laurentide Ice Sheet during the last deglaciation
2015 – 2016
M.Sc. Geography Department, Durham University, UK
2012 – 2015
B.Sc. Geography Department, Durham University, UK
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