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2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
90
Citations
28555
World Ranking
266
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Canada Leader Award
  • 1998 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

John J. Clague is affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada and focuses primarily on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work involves interdisciplinary research spanning several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The main research topics covered by John J. Clague include:

  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by John J. Clague are:

  • "A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya," 2021, published in Science
  • "An updated radiocarbon-based ice margin chronology for the last deglaciation of the North American Ice Sheet Complex," 2020, published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Flood Detection and Susceptibility Mapping Using Sentinel-1 Remote Sensing Data and a Machine Learning Approach: Hybrid Intelligence of Bagging Ensemble Based on K-Nearest Neighbor Classifier," 2020, published in Remote Sensing
  • "Evaluating urban flood risk using hybrid method of TOPSIS and machine learning," 2021, published in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
  • "Shallow Landslide Susceptibility Mapping: A Comparison between Logistic Model Tree, Logistic Regression, Naïve Bayes Tree, Artificial Neural Network, and Support Vector Machine Algorithms," 2020, published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Frequent co-authors in John J. Clague's research include:

  • Himan Shahabi
  • Marten Geertsema
  • Brian Menounos
  • Brent Ward
  • Hengxing Lan

John J. Clague has published multiple papers in prominent journals and conference venues such as:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Natural Hazards
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Engineering Geology
  • Landslides

Their contributions extend across diverse topics centered on environmental hazards, climate implications on geological and cryospheric processes, and advanced applications of remote sensing and machine learning in flood and landslide risk assessment.

John J. Clague has received recognition through awards including:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1998) in the Academy of Science
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Best Publications

  • Changes in climate extremes and their impacts on the natural physical environment.

    Sonia I. Seneviratne;Neville Nicholls;David Easterling;Clare M. Goodess

  • A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya

    D. H. Shugar;M. Jacquemart;M. Jacquemart;M. Jacquemart;D. Shean;S. Bhushan

  • A review of catastrophic drainage of moraine-dammed lakes in British Columbia

    John J. Clague;John J. Clague;Stephen G. Evans

  • Toward mountains without permanent snow and ice

    Matthias Huss;Matthias Huss;B Bookhagen;Christian Huggel;Dean Jacobsen

  • Is climate change responsible for changing landslide activity in high mountains

    Christian Huggel;John J. Clague;Oliver Korup

  • Recent climatic change and catastrophic geomorphic processes in mountain environments

    Stephen G. Evans;John J. Clague

  • Summary of Coastal Geologic Evidence for past Great Earthquakes at the Cascadia Subduction Zone

    Brian F. Atwater;Alan R. Nelson;John J. Clague;Gary A. Carver

  • Giant landslides, topography, and erosion

    Oliver Korup;John J. Clague;Reginald L. Hermanns;Kenneth Hewitt

  • An updated radiocarbon-based ice margin chronology for the last deglaciation of the North American Ice Sheet Complex

    April S. Dalton;April S. Dalton;Martin Margold;Chris R. Stokes;Lev Tarasov

  • An overview of recent large catastrophic landslides in northern British Columbia, Canada

    Marten Geertsema;John J. Clague;James W. Schwab;Stephen G. Evans

  • Flood Detection and Susceptibility Mapping Using Sentinel-1 Remote Sensing Data and a Machine Learning Approach: Hybrid Intelligence of Bagging Ensemble Based on K-Nearest Neighbor Classifier

    Himan Shahabi;Ataollah Shirzadi;Kayvan Ghaderi;Ebrahim Omidvar

  • Destructive mass movements in high mountains: Hazard and management

    G. H. Eisbacher;J. J. Clague

  • History and isostatic effects of the last ice sheet in southern British Columbia

    John J Clague;John J Clague;Thomas S James

  • Late Quaternary sea levels and crustal movements, coastal British Columbia

    John Clague;John R. Harper;R. J. Hebda;D. E. Howes

  • Legacies of catastrophic rock slope failures in mountain landscapes

    Kenneth Hewitt;John J. Clague;John F. Orwin

  • Shallow Landslide Susceptibility Mapping: A Comparison between Logistic Model Tree, Logistic Regression, Naïve Bayes Tree, Artificial Neural Network, and Support Vector Machine Algorithms

    Viet-Ha Nhu;Ataollah Shirzadi;Himan Shahabi;Sushant K. Singh

  • Ice-free conditions on the queen charlotte islands, british columbia, at the height of late wisconsin glaciation.

    Barry G. Warner;Rolf W. Mathewes;John J. Clague

  • Latest Pleistocene and Holocene glacier fluctuations in western Canada

    Brian Menounos;Gerald Osborn;John J. Clague;Brian H. Luckman

  • Coupling glacial lake impact, dam breach, and flood processes: A modeling perspective

    Raphaël Philipp Worni;Raphaël Philipp Worni;Christian Huggel;Christian Huggel;John J. Clague;Yvonne Schaub

  • Evidence for large earthquakes at the Cascadia Subduction Zone

    John J. Clague

  • A review of geological records of large tsunamis at Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and implications for hazard

    John J. Clague;John J. Clague;Peter T. Bobrowsky;Ian Hutchinson

  • History and isostatic effects of the last ice sheet in southern

    John J. Clague;Thomas S. James

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolf W. Mathewes
Rolf W. Mathewes Simon Fraser University
Brian Menounos
Brian Menounos University of Northern British Columbia
Stephen G. Evans
Stephen G. Evans University of Waterloo
Marten Geertsema
Marten Geertsema University of Northern British Columbia
Christian Huggel
Christian Huggel University of Zurich
Doug Stead
Doug Stead Simon Fraser University
Ataollah Shirzadi
Ataollah Shirzadi University of Kurdistan
Arjen P. Stroeven
Arjen P. Stroeven Stockholm University
Thomas S. James
Thomas S. James Geological Survey of Canada
Himan Shahabi
Himan Shahabi University of Kurdistan

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