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Experts from ´óÏó´«Ã½ are available to comment on current winter conditions following a devastating avalanche in southeastern B.C. 

AVAILABLE ´óÏó´«Ã½ EXPERTS

PASCAL HAEGELI, NSERC, Industrial Research Chair in Avalanche Risk Management    
phaegeli@sfu.ca

• Avalanche safety research in Canada and internationally
• Developing evidence-based tools that assist backcountry recreationists and avalanche professionals to make better informed decisions when preparing for and travelling in avalanche terrain

JESSE HAHM, assistant professor, geography   
whahm@sfu.ca

• Impact of droughts including predicting snowmelt following droughts, which is critical for local water supply planning, 
  

 DANA LAPIDES, postdoctoral research fellow, geography
danalapides@gmail.com

• Water resources management, ecohydrology, overland flow, streamflow depletion and snowmelt 

GWENN FLOWERS, professor & graduate program chair, earth sciences
gflowers@sfu.ca

• How glaciers are responding to climate change - following 
• How experts measure and model to understand these changes

JOHN CLAGUE, professor emeritus, Earth Sciences, CRC Chair in Natural Hazard Science
jclague@sfu.ca

• The link between extreme weather events and climate change, natural disasters
  

BRENT WARD, professor, earth sciences 
bcward@sfu.ca

• Natural hazards, landslides, floods, earthquakes; making communities more resilient to climate change
  

CONTACT 

MELISSA SHAW, ´óÏó´«Ã½  Communications & Marketing 
236.880.3297 | melissa_shaw@sfu.ca

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778.782.3210

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