Joseph Desloges

Joseph Desloges

First Name: 
Joseph
Last Name: 
Desloges
Title: 
Professor
Office Location : 
2124 Earth Sciences Centre, 22 Ursala Franklin St
Biography : 

Teaching Field Methods, Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, graduate-level seminar on paleohydrology.

Publications 

Kostaschuck. R., Aden, A. and Desloges, J.R. 2020. Impact of the Mount Polley Mine tailings dam failure on erosion, deposition and copper contamination in Quesnel Lake: British Columbia, Canada. Sedimentology, doi.org/10.1111/sed.12836.

Desloges, J.R., Phillips R.T.J., Byrne, M.-L. and Cockburn, J.H.M. 2020. Geomorphology of the Great Lakes Lowlands of Eastern Canada. In, O. Slaymaker and N. Catto N (eds), Landscapes and Landforms of Eastern Canada. (eds.), Landscapes and Landforms of Eastern Canada, World Geomorphological Landscapes, Springer International Publishing. Switzerland, 259-275. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35137-3_11

Tetford, P.E., Desloges, J.R. and Nakassis, D. 2017b. The potential relationship between archaeological artefact exposure and surface geomorphic processes –NE Peloponnese, Greece. Journal of Field Archaeology. 1-14 p https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2018.1518947.

Tetford, P.E., Desloges, J.R. and Nakassis, D. 2017a. Modelling surface geomorphic processes using the RUSLE and Specific Stream Power models in a GIS framework, NE Peloponnese, Greece. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment. 3(4), 1229-1244. DOI 10.1007/s40808-017-0391-z

Thayer, J., Phillips, R. and Desloges J.R. 2016. Downstream channel adjustment in a low-relief, glacially conditioned watershed. Geomorphology 262, 101–111.

Education: 
PhD, Univ. of British Columbia
MSc, Univ. of Wisconsin Madison
BES, Univ. of Waterloo
Personal Website: 
https://desloges.es.utoronto.ca/

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Areas of Interest: 

The influence of rivers, glaciers and humans on landform development, Holocene fluvial and glacial processes in Canada (S. Ontario, mountainous regions of BC, and the southern Yukon), Paleohydrology using archives of sediments in floodplains and lake deposits, The role of extreme events, Urbanization impacts on stream erosion, River and floodplain geoarchaeology. 

Cross-Appointments: 
Department of Earth Sciences
Administrative Service: 
Chair, Department of Geography and Planning, 1998-2008
Principal, Woodsworth College, 2008-2019
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Joseph Desloges