John J. Clague

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John Joseph Clague (* 1946 in San Diego , California ) is a Canadian geologist and professor at Simon Fraser University who specializes in Quaternary geology in Canada and geo-risks such as floods, earthquakes , tsunamis and landslides . In this area, he has made public appearances as an expert in the Canadian media, advocating risk prevention for future earthquakes on the Canadian Pacific coast.

Life

Clague studied at Occidental College in Los Angeles with a bachelor's degree in 1967 (magna cum laude) and at the University of California, Berkeley with a master's degree in geology in 1969. He received his doctorate in 1973 at the University of British Columbia and worked thereafter until 1998 for the Geological Survey of Canada in Vancouver . There he studied the effects of historical earthquakes (and tsunamis) in the Pacific Northwest and the ice age deposits in the catchment area of ​​the Fraser River. He also dealt with landslides. From 1998 he was a professor at Simon Fraser University, where he received the first Canada Research Chair for Natural Hazards from 2003.

He was the editor of the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences and is Vice President of INQUA .

In 1998 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 2007 he received the Logan Medal . In 2006 he received the ER Ward Neale Medal from the Geological Association of Canada and in 2002 the Bancroft Award from the Royal Society of Canada. For 2020, Clague was awarded the Sergey Soloviev Medal of the European Geosciences Union .

Fonts

  • with GH Eisbacher: Destructive Mass Movements in High Mountains, 1984
  • Paleoseismology and seismic hazards, southwestern British Columbia. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 494, 1996
  • Evidence for large earthquakes at the Cascadia subduction zone. Reviews of Geophysics, Volume 35, 1997, pp. 439-460
  • with SG Evans: Natural hazards in the Canadian Cordillera, in: D. P Moore, O. Hungr, Engineering Geology; A Global View from the Pacific Rim, Proceedings, 8th International Congress, International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment, Vancouver, BC, Volume 1, Balkema, Rotterdam 1998, pp. 17-44.
  • with PS Mustard, GJ Woodsworth, CJ Hickson, LE Jackson Jr., JL Luternauer, JWH Monger, BD Ricketts, RJW Turner, JA Hunter, PA Monahan :. Geology and geological hazards of the Greater Vancouver area, in: In PF Karrow, OL White, Urban Geology of Canadian Cities, Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 42, 1998, pp. 39-70.
  • with SC Thompson, SG Evans: Holocene activity of the Mt. Currie scarp, Coast Mountains, British Columbia, and implications for its origin, Environmental and Engineering Geoscience, Volume 3, 1997, pp. 329-348.
  • with RD Hyndman, GC Rogers, H. Dragert, K. Wang, J. Adams, PT Bobrowsky: Giant earthquakes beneath Canada's west coast. Geoscience Canada, Vol. 23, 1996, pp. 63-72.
  • with AR Nelson, BF Atwater, PT Bobrowsky, L.-A. Bradley, GA Carver, ME Darienzo, WC Grant, HW Krueger, R. Sparks, TW Stafford Jr., M. Stuiver: Radiocarbon evidence for extensive plate-boundary rupture about 300 years ago at the Cascadia subduction zone, Nature, Volume 378, 1995, pp. 371-374.
  • with O. Slaymaker (editor): Canadian Geomorphology 2000, in: Geomorphology, Volume 32, 2000, Nos. 3-4
  • with RJ Turner: Climate change in southwestern British Columbia: Extending the boundaries of earth science, Geoscience Canada, Volume 27, 2000, pp. 111-120.

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References and comments

  1. ↑ For example, on television in a 1997 program on Discovery Channel about earthquakes and tsunamis on the west coast of Canada
  2. ↑ EGU announces 2020 awards and medals. In: egu.eu. October 22, 2019, accessed October 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Clague, John J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clague, John Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian geologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH San Diego , California