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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1996 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 1989 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Garry K. C. Clarke is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and has contributed to fields spanning Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Arts and Humanities. Their research focuses include the study of atmospheric processes, global and planetary change, and the history and philosophy of science.

Their notable topics of work cover:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate variability and models
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • History of Science and Medicine
  • Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies

Among their recent scientific papers are:

  • Evidence for Elevation-Dependent Warming in the St. Elias Mountains, Yukon, Canada, published in 2020 in the Journal of Climate
  • Mount Logan & the Icefields: Yukon Flying Adventures, by Andrew Williams, published in 2022 in ARCTIC

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Garry K. C. Clarke include:

  • Scott Williamson
  • Christian Zdanowicz
  • F. S. Anslow
  • Luke Copland
  • Ryan K. Danby

Key publication venues for their work include the Journal of Climate and ARCTIC. These journals reflect their interdisciplinary engagement with climate science and polar research.

Recognition of their career includes being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1989 within the Academy of Science and being elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 1996.

Best Publications

  • Freshwater Forcing of Abrupt Climate Change During the Last Glaciation

    Peter U. Clark;Shawn J. Marshall;Garry K. C. Clarke;Steven W. Hostetler

  • Ice-dammed lakes and rerouting of the drainage of northern Eurasia during the Last Glaciation.

    Jan Mangerud;Martin Jakobsson;Helena Alexanderson;Valery Astakhov

  • Paleohydraulics of the last outburst flood from glacial Lake Agassiz and the 8200 BP cold event

    Garry K.C. Clarke;David W. Leverington;James T. Teller;Arthur S. Dyke

  • Contribution of Alaskan glaciers to sea-level rise derived from satellite imagery

    Etienne Berthier;Etienne Berthier;Eric Schiefer;Garry K. C. Clarke;Brian Menounos

  • Flow, thermal structure, and subglacial conditions of a surge-type glacier

    Garry K. C. Clarke;Sam G. Collins;David E. Thompson

  • Subglacial till: A physical framework for its properties and processes

    Garry K. C. Clarke

  • Projected deglaciation of western Canada in the twenty-first century

    Garry K. C. Clarke;Alexander H. Jarosch;Faron S. Anslow;Valentina Radić

  • SUBGLACIAL PROCESSES

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  • How accurate are estimates of glacier ice thickness? Results from ITMIX, the Ice Thickness Models Intercomparison eXperiment

    Daniel Farinotti;Daniel Farinotti;Douglas J. Brinkerhoff;Garry K.C. Clarke;Johannes J. Fürst

  • History of the Greenland Ice Sheet: paleoclimatic insights

    Richard B. Alley;John T. Andrews;J. Brigham-Grette;G.K.C. Clarke

  • Glacier outburst floods from "Hazard Lake'', Yukon Territory, and the problem of flood magnitude prediction

    Garry K. C. Clarke

  • A multicomponent coupled model of glacier hydrology 1. Theory and synthetic examples

    Gwenn E. Flowers;Garry K. C. Clarke

  • Fast glacier flow: Ice streams, surging, and tidewater glaciers

    Garry K. C. Clarke

  • Analysis of Irregularities in the Earth's Rotation

    D.E. Smylie;G.K.C. Clarke;T.J. Ulrych

  • A continuum mixture model of ice stream thermomechanics in the Laurentide Ice Sheet 2. Application to the Hudson Strait Ice Stream

    Shawn J. Marshall;Garry K. C. Clarke

  • Hydraulics of subglacial outburst floods: new insights from the Spring-Hutter formulation

    Garry K. C. Clarke

  • Strain heating and creep instability in glaciers and ice sheets

    Garry K. C. Clarke;Uzi Nitsan;W. S. B. Paterson

  • North American Ice Sheet reconstructions at the Last Glacial Maximum

    Shawn J. Marshall;Thomas S. James;Garry K.C. Clarke

  • Superlakes, Megafloods, and Abrupt Climate Change

    Garry Clarke;David Leverington;James Teller;Arthur Dyke

  • Glaciological reconstruction of the Laurentide Ice Sheet: physical processes and modelling challenges

    Shawn J. Marshall;Lev Tarasov;Garry K.C. Clarke;W. Richard Peltier

  • Origin and fate of Lake Vostok water frozen to the base of the East Antarctic ice sheet

    Robin E. Bell;Michael Studinger;Anahita A. Tikku;Garry K.C. Clarke

  • Glaciers and Glaciation

    Garry K. C. Clarke

Frequent Co-Authors

Shawn J. Marshall
Shawn J. Marshall University of Calgary
Gwenn E. Flowers
Gwenn E. Flowers Simon Fraser University
Erkan Istanbulluoglu
Erkan Istanbulluoglu University of Washington
Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Dennis P. Lettenmaier University of California, Los Angeles
Helgi Björnsson
Helgi Björnsson University of Iceland
Brian Menounos
Brian Menounos University of Northern British Columbia
John J. Clague
John J. Clague Simon Fraser University
Etienne Berthier
Etienne Berthier Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales
James T. Teller
James T. Teller University of Manitoba
David S. Hik
David S. Hik Simon Fraser University

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