Visiting Speaker - Dr. Laura Thomson

On Friday November 18, Dr. Laura Thomson, Queen's University, Department of Geography and Planning, will be giving a talk for the Queen's Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering.

Dr. Thomson will be presenting on: “Glacier monitoring in Canada’s North”

Bio:

I grew up enjoying the wonderful community of Williams Lake in the central interior of British Columbia before heading east to study in the Department of Earth Sciences at Western University as a Loran Scholar (’04). Here I received BSc and MSc degrees in Geophysics and Planetary Science, while also completing a one year research internship in glacier mapping at the University of Northern British Columbia. My PhD research at the University of Ottawa focused on the glaciers of Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, where I now maintain the long-term (>50 year) glacier monitoring program. I have been fortunate to hold fellowships with the Western Canada Cryospheric Network, with the European Space Agency’s Earth Observation Team, and to work as a visiting scientist at the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) at the University of Zürich. I pursued Postdoctoral studies in Glaciology at Simon Fraser University under the mentorship from Dr. Gwenn Flowers, where we investigated the impact of changing ice temperatures on ice motion and the long-term stability of Arctic glaciers. I am thrilled to be joining the Queen’s Geography and Planning community in 2018 and am looking forward to fostering new collaborations in the years to come.