Join us for our next colloquium on Thursday 4th March with Dr. Stuart Lane\, Professor of Geomorphology at the Univers ity of Lausanne\, Switzerland.
Register using the form below to r eceive Zoom meeting details via email.
Alpine glaciers\, as with glaciers world-wide\, are currently in a phase of rapid retreat.
In Switzerland and Austria alone\, research has shown that since the 1850s\, 9 00 km2 of new terrain has been exposed. Current climate warming is accelera ting this process. Surprisingly\, the zones that form in front of retreatin g glaciers are very poorly understood — both in terms of the ecosystem succ ession that they sustain\, and their effects on the transfer of sediment do wnstream.
Whether in the context of biodiversity protection or hydrop ower exploitation\, we urgently need a better understanding of these region s.
In this seminar\, Dr. Lane will present results from a field-based campaign that is seeking to quantify how and when retreating glaciers evac uate the sediment that they have eroded\, how proglacial margins respond to this upstream sediment (and water) boundary condition\, and what this mean s for the development of embryonic ecosystems in proglacial margins.
After an overview of Dr. Lane's work\, the seminar will focus on one of the se key questions - how and when do glaciers evacuate the sediment they have eroded.
This event is virtual\, but its hosts are settlers who l ive and work on the traditional\, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú 7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Wa ututh). These communities have been custodians of this land since time immemorial.
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