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Brian Menounos

 

Dr. Brian Menounos

Associate Professor, Geography
University of Northern British Columbia

Climate change research focused on glaciers and melting processes

Dr. Brian Menounos is an Associate Professor in Geography at the University of Northern British Columbia. He obtained his undergraduate and Master’s degrees from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and his PhD from the University of British Columbia (2002).

Brian is the principal investigator of the Western Canadian Cryospheric Network (WC2N), a UNBC representative to the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS), and a scientific steering member of the Columbia Basin Trust. Brian also sits on the BC Hydro technical advisory committee for the Pacific Climatic Impacts Consortium. He has strong research links with faculty at Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Calgary, the University of Alberta, and the University of Victoria.  
Brian’s research involves the study of earth surface systems and their response to climatic change in three thematic areas: i) recent and future changes of alpine glaciers in western Canada; ii) environmental reconstructions of geomorphic processes and hydrologic events; and iii) Holocene glacier fluctuations.
Link to my homepage:  http://web.unbc.ca/~menounos/  

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