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Olav Slaymaker is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and specializes in research within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their scholarly work spans various subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The primary topics addressed in their research include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Olav Slaymaker has contributed publications to several academic venues, mainly:

  • Geomorphology
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Geological Society London Memoirs

Recent papers authored by Slaymaker include:

  • "Recasting geomorphology as a landscape science", 2021, Geomorphology
  • "Epilogue: personal reflection on geomorphology during 1965-2000 and geomorphological futures", 2022, Geological Society London Memoirs
  • "Reply to comment by Wasson et al. on "Recasting Geomorphology as a Landscape Science" by Slaymaker, Spencer and Embleton-Hamann (2021)", 2021, Geomorphology

Slaymaker is also a coauthor of a paper titled "Quantifying sediment connectivity: Moving toward a holistic assessment through a mixed methods approach," published in 2021 in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.

Frequent collaborators in Slaymaker's research include Norm Catto, Dori J. Kovanen, Tom Spencer, Christine Embleton-Hamann, and Mike Turley.

Best Publications

  • Disequilibrium of Holocene sediment yield in glaciated British Columbia

    Michael Church;Olav Slaymaker

  • Landslide inventory in a rugged forested watershed: a comparison between air-photo and field survey data

    Francesco Brardinoni;Olav Slaymaker;Marwan A Hassan

  • Hydrograph separation using stable isotopes, silica and electrical conductivity: an alpine example

    Hjalmar Laudon;Olav Slaymaker

  • Mutual vulnerability, mutual dependence

    Evan D.G. Fraser;Warren Mabee;Olav Slaymaker

  • Glacio-Fluvial Sediment Transfer: An Alpine Perspective

    Olav Slaymaker;A. M. Gurnell;M. J. Clark

  • The sediment budget as conceptual framework and management tool

    Olav Slaymaker

  • Geomorphology and global environmental change.

    Olav Slaymaker;Thomas Spencer;Christine Embleton-Hamann

  • Fluvial clastic sediment yield in Canada: scaled analysis

    Michael Church;Darren Ham;Marwan Hassan;Olav Slaymaker

  • Holocene Sediment Production in Lillooet River Basin, British Colombia: A Sediment Budget Approach

    Peter Jordan;Olav Slaymaker

  • Criteria to Distinguish Between Periglacial, Proglacial and Paraglacial Environments

    Olav Slaymaker

  • Towards the identification of scaling relations in drainage basin sediment budgets

    Olav Slaymaker

  • Proglacial, periglacial or paraglacial?

    Olav Slaymaker

  • The distinctive attributes of debris torrents

    Olav Slaymaker

  • Identification, characterization, and hydrological implications of water repellency in mountain soils, southern British Columbia

    G. Barrett;O. Slaymaker

  • Physiographically Controlled Allometry of Specific Sediment Yield in the Canadian Cordillera: A Lake Sediment‐based Approach

    Erik Schiefer;Olav Slaymaker;Brian Klinkenberg

  • Advances in Holocene mountain geomorphology inspired by sediment budget methodology

    Olav Slaymaker;Catherine Souch;Brian Menounos;Gabriel Filippelli

  • Environmental reconstruction from a varve network in the southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Canada

    Brian Menounos;John J. Clague;Robert Gilbert;Olav Slaymaker

  • Alpine lake sediment records of the impact of glaciation and climate change on the biogeochemical cycling of soil nutrients

    Gabriel M. Filippelli;Catherine Souch;Brian Menounos;Sara Slater-Atwater

  • Interdecadal patterns of total sediment yield from a montane catchment, southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Canada

    Erik Schiefer;Marwan A. Hassan;Brian Menounos;Channa P. Pelpola

  • Alluvial fans. A field approach

    Olav Slaymaker

  • Principles of Hydrology

    Olav Slaymaker;R. C. Ward

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Church
Michael Church University of British Columbia
Brian Menounos
Brian Menounos University of Northern British Columbia
Marwan A. Hassan
Marwan A. Hassan University of British Columbia
Tom Spencer
Tom Spencer University of Cambridge
Hugh M. French
Hugh M. French University of Ottawa
John J. Clague
John J. Clague Simon Fraser University
Gabriel M. Filippelli
Gabriel M. Filippelli Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Martin Evans
Martin Evans University of Manchester
Robert Gilbert
Robert Gilbert Queen's University
Thomas J. Spencer
Thomas J. Spencer Massachusetts General Hospital

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