{"id":464,"date":"2018-11-27T09:17:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T15:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colin.madlabsk.ca\/index.php\/contact-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T22:39:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T04:39:52","slug":"contact-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/colin.madlabsk.ca\/index.php\/contact-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Interests"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"464\" class=\"elementor elementor-464\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3906703 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3906703\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-24c9f1f\" data-id=\"24c9f1f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a5e247a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a5e247a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Research Interests<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8f684de elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8f684de\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-eace5b6\" data-id=\"eace5b6\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c76960b elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"c76960b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9300457 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9300457\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-60016e2\" data-id=\"60016e2\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-26dc60f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"26dc60f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; color: #000000;\">My research interests focus on past and future climates in Canada, especially on how they relate to dynamic ecosystem and geomorpholgical processes. My specialization is dendrochronology (tree-ring analysis) and I use dendrochronological techniques to gain an understanding about past climates, past glacier activity and extent, past ecosystem dynamics, and even past human activities through dendroarchaeological and dendrochemical investigations.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; color: #000000;\">I began my research career in 1991 studying glacial activity in the Kananaskis Front Ranges region of southwestern Alberta, and have continued my field studies every year since. I have studied in many alpine regions including the Insular Mountain range of Vancouver Island, the Coastal Mountains of British Columbia, and in many areas of the Monashee, Selkirk, Purcell, and Main Ranges of the Canadian Rocky Mountains in British Columbia and Alberta. I have had the great pleasure of working in Labrador&#8217;s Mealy, Red Wine, and Torngat mountains as well.\u00a0 Most recently, I have started to work in the Mackenzie mountains of the Northwest Territories.<br \/><\/span><\/p><p style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">From 1995 to 2003 I was closely associated with the University of Victoria Tree-Ring Laboratory\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geog.uvic.ca\/dept\/uvtrl\/uvtrl.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(UVTRL) <\/a>in the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria. I have completed my two postgraduate degrees through the UVTRL, and have been involved in a number of other projects under the auspices of the lab.<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/p><p style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">In the fall of 2003 I moved to Mount Allison University, where I set up the first dendrochronology laboratory in Atlantic Canada.\u00a0 The Mount Allison Dendrochronology Lab was formed in January of 2004 and concentrated its research efforts in the 4 Atlantic Canadian provinces. In 2014 I moved the MAD Lab to the University of Saskatchewan (<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.madlabsk.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MAD Lab<\/a><\/span>). I urge you to visit the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.madlabsk.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MAD Lab<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0website to see what we are curently up to. I am also the webmaster for the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.candendro.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CanDendro<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0group. Please feel free to check out the website to see links to dendrochronological sites in\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/beta.candendro.ca\/map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canada<\/a><\/span><\/span>, the Canadian bibliographic <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/beta.candendro.ca\/articles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">database<\/a><\/span><\/span>, or simply to find links to\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/beta.candendro.ca\/laboratories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dendrochronologists<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0in Canada.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-570e14c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"570e14c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9857cae\" data-id=\"9857cae\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0637e79 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"0637e79\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1bae67c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1bae67c\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-891968a\" data-id=\"891968a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Interests My research interests focus on past and future climates in Canada, especially on how they relate to dynamic ecosystem and geomorpholgical processes. My specialization is dendrochronology (tree-ring analysis) and I use dendrochronological techniques to gain an understanding about past climates, past glacier activity and extent, past ecosystem dynamics, and even past human activities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"enabled","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-464","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colin.madlabsk.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colin.madlabsk.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colin.madlabsk.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colin.madlabsk.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colin.madlabsk.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/colin.madlabsk.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/colin.madlabsk.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/464\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colin.madlabsk.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}