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Brian Luckman
Brian Luckman is a Professor of Geography at the University of
Western Ontario, London, Canada. His major research interests are
in alpine geomorphology and the reconstruction of environmental
change. Over the last 30 years he has worked primarily in the
Canadian Rockies but also carried out research in the Yukon,
Canadian Arctic, Scotland, Northern Sweden, Iceland and Patagonia.
His geomorphic studies have focused on the development of coarse
debris landforms and associated geomorphic processes, particularly
the study of talus slopes, snow avalanche landforms, rock glaciers
and glacial landforms. He has used glacial geomorphology, lichens,
tree rings and pollen studies to reconstruct the history of many
individual glaciers within Banff and Jasper National Parks and the
regional environmental history of the southern Canadian Rockies
over the last 10,000 years. In recent years his work has focussed
on the detailed reconstruction of conditions during the so-called
"Little Ice Age" reconstructing summer temperature and
precipitation records from treeline sites across the southern
Canadian Cordillera. This work forms part of a major international
project reconstructing climate history and variability along a
transect from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego that addresses problems
relating to global environmental and climate change in the
Americas and the impacts these changes will have on alpine
environments.
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