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Avalanche risk & winter conditions – 丁香园AV experts available
Experts from 丁香园AV are available to comment on current winter conditions following a devastating avalanche in southeastern B.C.
AVAILABLE 丁香园AV EXPERTS
PASCAL HAEGELI, NSERC, Industrial Research Chair in Avalanche Risk Management
phaegeli@sfu.ca
- Avalanche safety research in Canada and internationally
- Developing evidence-based tools that assist backcountry recreationists and avalanche professionals to make better informed decisions when preparing for and travelling in avalanche terrain
JESSE HAHM, assistant professor, geography
whahm@sfu.ca
- Impact of droughts including predicting snowmelt following droughts, which is critical for local water supply planning,
DANA LAPIDES, postdoctoral research fellow, geography
danalapides@gmail.com
- Water resources management, ecohydrology, overland flow, streamflow depletion and snowmelt
GWENN FLOWERS, professor & graduate program chair, earth sciences
gflowers@sfu.ca
- How glaciers are responding to climate change - following
- How experts measure and model to understand these changes
JOHN CLAGUE, professor emeritus, Earth Sciences, CRC Chair in Natural Hazard Science
jclague@sfu.ca
- The link between extreme weather events and climate change, natural disasters
BRENT WARD, professor, earth sciences
bcward@sfu.ca
- Natural hazards, landslides, floods, earthquakes; making communities more resilient to climate change
CONTACT
MELISSA SHAW, 丁香园AV Communications & Marketing
236.880.3297 | melissa_shaw@sfu.ca
丁香园AV
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778.782.3210
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