1. Terrestrial and Lacustrine Evidence of Holocene Glacier Activity in
Southernmost Patagonia
Good afternoon I am studying terrestrial and lacustrine evidence of Holocene glacier activity in southernmost Patagonia.
I am doing this work with Brian Menounos, Jerry Osborn and John Clague
This is my first semester of graduate studies at the University of Northern British Columbia and I would like to share with you my preliminary results from field work that I completed in December of last year.
Malyssa Maurer1, Brian Menounos1, Jerry Osborn2, John Clague3
1 University of Northern British Columbia
2 University of Calgary
3 Simon Fraser University 1

2. 2

3. cal yr BP = number of years before 1950

5. Advisor: Dr. Phil Burton
Bryan Pettit M.Sc. NRES – Forestry, University of Northern British Columbia
Advisor: Dr. Phil Burton
Image taken June 26, 2006
Fire occurred on July 2, 2006
Image taken August 13, 2006

6. dNBR Formula: (Band 4 – Band 7) / (Band 4 + Band 7)
dNBR Formula: (Band 4 – Band 7) / (Band 4 + Band 7) * 1000 Band 4 represents foliage and understory vegetation, Band 7 represents dry and blackened soil
30m-resolution Fire Severity classification using differenced Normalized Burn Ratio

7. Loss of needles allows more sunlight through the canopy, so understory plants can experience increased growth
When the needles from the canopy fall to the ground though, they provide a quick drying, continuous bed of fuel
So the main point is that any changes occurring in the stand structure will also have an affect on fuels, and therefore fire severity as well
Histogram of differenced normalized burn ratio values over the subsetted area of fig. 2, annotated by severity classification 7

8. 1958-2008 fire polygons with 1980-2000 beetle attack in red.
So my main research question is: Does mountain pine beetle attack lead to increased fire severity in the event of a wildfire?
My Hypothesis is yes, that areas that experience beetle-kill will also experience higher fire severities
And to test that hypothesis, I’ll be looking at 3 main components: Mountain pine beetle attack to look at its structural changes to forests, How fire severity will be affected by those structural changes, and using Landsat imagery to test my hypothesis
fire polygons with beetle attack in red.
(A) is the 2006 fire from Figs. 1&2
with small instances of 1983 and 1985 mpb attack; (B) is a 2004 fire with 1983 MPB attack; and (C) is a 2003 fire with MPB attack 8

9. The relation of glacier activity to sediment yield in a proglacial lake, Peyto Basin, Alberta
Theo Mlynowski, M.Sc. Candidate, NRES (Geography), Supervisor: Brian Menounos
10 years (?)
Annual Layer (?)

10. Available data

11. Creating DEMs
1917

12. Calculate volumetric, areal, and longitudinal dimensions of Peyto Glacier.

16. Impact and Methods for Soil Moisture
From Keen 1955

18. Capturing the Land-Use Change Scenario & Water Quality Modeling in Kiskatinaw River Watershed, Northern BC: Siddhartho Shekhar Paul
Supervisor : Dr. Jianbing Li
Outline
Background & Overview on Study Area
Research Objectives
Application of RS & GIS
Rationale to use RS & GIS

19. Kiskatinaw River Watershed
Located in North-Eastern BC,
river flowing from south to north
Tributary of Peace River
Divided into 5 sub-basin for study. This project will focus on only Mainstem sub-basin, because
- large watershed to cover in a single project
- drinking water intake for city water supply is situated at Arras of the mainstem sub-basin.

20. Water-Use Value in the Kiskatinaw Watershed

21. Increase in Water Use 0.12 0.08 0.04 Cubic meters per second Year
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
2010
2020
Source: City of Dawson Creek Authority

22. Research Objectives
Land-use change mapping to assess the impact on water
quality.
Water quality modeling in the Kiskatinaw River and its
tributaries
Shale-gas exploration activity
- Most dominating & detrimental land-use change issue .
Group-1: Hydrological modeling to predict the impact on discharge and sedimentation over the whole watershed.

23. Map Source: Dawson Creek city authority
Application of RS & GIS
Dawson Creek
Tumbler Ridge
10 km
Map Source: Dawson Creek city authority

24. Map Source: Dawson Creek city authority
1 km
Map Source: Dawson Creek city authority

25. Map Source: BC iMap database
1 km
Activities at 2007
Oil & Gas commission petroleum exploration planning grid, active exploration filed, selected exploration field.
1 km
Map Source: BC iMap database

26. Map Source: BC iMap database
1 km
Activities ~1995
1 km
Map Source: BC iMap database

27. Map Source: BC iMap database
1 km
Activities ~1985
1 km
Map Source: BC iMap database

28. Approaches
Capturing land-use change over the last years (Depends on
availability of image), mainly focusing the petroleum exploration
activity.
DEM creation to get a notion on the water-flow direction over the
whole project area for assessing track of pollution
Capturing land-use change:
Digital Classification of the imagery (both object and unsupervised
classification)
Manual digitizing technique, if required

29. Rationale to use RS and GIS
Easy capturing and compare the change over the whole area for a certain time-period
Subjugate the accessibility issues
Cost effective
Comprehensive overview of water flow direction
Can provide a complete planning framework