Biography

Jon Tunnicliffe has a keen interest in fluvial and glacial processes and the roles they have played in shaping the Canadian landscape over timescales of decades to millennia. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Western Ontario, and went on to do his Masters’ research on sediment transport in small, headward streams at the University of Northern British Columbia (Prince George). His PhD work at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) involved reconstructing the 10,000 year sedimentation history of a large mountain valley in the North Cascades mountain range. He spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Science in Christchurch, New Zealand, looking into the long-term response of rivers to impoundment or diversion for hydro power installations. Jon is presently working on  questions relating to climate change impacts in the western Canadian Arctic, including hillslope stability, river sedimentation and permafrost hydrology.

Research Interests

• Sediment budgets and the long-term evolution of fluvial systems
• Hydraulics and sediment transport modelling
• Environmental geophysics
• Quaternary geochronology

2011/12 Courses

• GEOG 3102 Geomorphology
• GEOG 4004 Environmental Impact Assessment

Publications

Tunnicliffe, J. and Church, M. Numerical simulation of valley-fill evacuation and post-glacial river adjustment (Forthcoming)

Kokelj, S.V., Lacelle, D., Lantz, T.C., Tunnicliffe, J., Clarke, I., Malone, L., Chin, K. and Joynt, A. Mega thaw slumps and shifts in the hydrogeomorphic regimes of periglacial streams. Submitted to Nature Geoscience.

Tunnicliffe, J., Church, M, Clague, J. and Feathers, J. Postglacial sediment budget of Chilliwack Valley, British Columbia. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms (In Press, ESP-11-026).

Tunnicliffe, J., Church, M. and Enkin, R. 2012. Postglacial sediment yield to Chilliwack Lake, British Columbia. Boreas. 41(1): 84-101. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3885.2011. 00219.x.

Feathers, J. and Tunnicliffe, J. 2011. Effect of single-grain versus multi-grain aliquots in determining age for K-feldspars from southwestern British Columbia. Ancient TL. 29(2). 15-20.

Tunnicliffe, J. and Church, M. 2011. Scale Variation of Post Glacial Sediment Yield in Chilliwack Valley, British Columbia. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. doi: 10.1002/esp.2093.

Hassan, M. A., Gottesfeld, A.S., Montgomery, D.R., Tunnicliffe, J.F., Clarke, G.K.C., Wynn, G., Jones-Cox, H., Poirier, R., MacIsaac, E., Herunter, H., MacDonald, S.J. (2008). Salmon-driven bed load transport and bed morphology in mountain streams, Geophysical Research Letters. 35. L04405, doi:10.1029/2007GL03299.