{"id":8,"date":"2016-05-25T19:59:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T19:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/gilchrisa\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2023-09-25T20:47:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T20:47:23","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/gilchrisa\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have pursued a number of themes during my career which are all broadly related to water; both as a resource that needs management, and as an agent of erosion that creates dramatic landscapes.<\/p>\n

Water Resources Management<\/a><\/strong> – At this time I am actively researching various aspects of the water resources on Vancouver Island, and developing a series of tools to help protect and manage this most important resource. See separate page<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n

Hillslope and River Dynamics<\/strong> – From 1996 to 2002 I was actively employed as a consultant Professional Geoscientist in the forest resource sector assessing hillslope and stream channel erosion, and working on watershed restoration projects in northern BC.<\/p>\n

Macrogeomorphology<\/strong> – During the early part of my career I examined how erosional processes can affect the creation and evolution of high mountains (1000’s meters high) over geological timescales via the link between erosion and isostasy. I have studied mountain ranges in the interior of tectonic plates (southern Africa, eastern Australia and the Transantarctic mountains) and also at convergent plate boundaries (European Alps, Himalayas and the Andes).<\/p>\n

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Willkapampa mountain range in the Andes of Peru.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have pursued a number of themes during my career which are all broadly related to water; both as a resource that needs management, and as an agent of erosion that creates dramatic landscapes. Water Resources Management – At this … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/gilchrisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/gilchrisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/gilchrisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/gilchrisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/gilchrisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/gilchrisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/gilchrisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/gilchrisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}