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Professor
Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Geography and Planning
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- ProfessorFaculty of Arts and Science, Department of Geography and Planning
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- University of Toronto, Department of Earth Sciences, 22 Russell St., Toronto, ON, M5S 3B1, Canada
BIO
Dr. Joseph Desloges is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning and in the Department Earth Sciences.
His special interests are the influence of climate change and human disturbance on geomorphic processes and landform change with an emphasis on river floodplains and sediment yield in glacierized landscapes. Contemporary and Holocene glacier fluctuations have been reconstructed using terrestrial and marine high-resolution sedimentary archives. He has conducted research mainly in large glacier-fed lakes of the western Canadian Cordillera and, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Copenhagen, deep fiords of western Greenland. More recent work has focused on late Quaternary and Holocene fluvial environments of southern Ontario with particular emphasis on decoupling the influence of humans disturbance on erosion from that associated with climate-induced changes. Geophysical, geochronology and geoarchaeology methods have been used extensively to develop and interpret the sedimentary record.
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His special interests are the influence of climate change and human disturbance on geomorphic processes and landform change with an emphasis on river floodplains and sediment yield in glacierized landscapes. Contemporary and Holocene glacier fluctuations have been reconstructed using terrestrial and marine high-resolution sedimentary archives. He has conducted research mainly in large glacier-fed lakes of the western Canadian Cordillera and, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Copenhagen, deep fiords of western Greenland. More recent work has focused on late Quaternary and Holocene fluvial environments of southern Ontario with particular emphasis on decoupling the influence of humans disturbance on erosion from that associated with climate-induced changes. Geophysical, geochronology and geoarchaeology methods have been used extensively to develop and interpret the sedimentary record.
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ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- ProfessorUniversity of Toronto, Department of Geography and Planning, Department of Earth Sciences, Toronto, CanadaJan 1987 - present
- PrincipalUniversity of Toronto, Woodsworth College, Toronto, Canada2008 - 2019
- ChairUniversity of Toronto, Department of Geography and Planning, Toronto, Canada1998 - 2008
DEGREES
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physical GeographyUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada1982 - 1987
- Master of Science (M.Sc.), Physical GeographyUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, United States1982
- Bachelor of Environmental Studies (B.E.S.), GeographyUniversity of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada1980
AVAILABILITY
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
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