KAS Annual Meeting Guest Speaker

DAVID J. SAUCHYN

Our distinguished guest speaker was Dr. David J. Sauchyn, University of Regina, Saskatchewan. He is one of the foremost Canadian experts on changing environments of the Great Plains as well as application of GIS to large, interdisciplinary studies. He is currently involved a multiyear, national investigation of environmental change in the "Palliser Triangle" of southwestern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta. Dr. Sauchyn presented two lectures in connection with the KAS annual meeting:

Public lecture on Canadian Prairie environments, geomorphology, and climates.
Plenary lecture for the Kansas Academy of Science. He described the Palliser Triangle project in southwestern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta.

See Abstracts for presentations.

Address information

Dept. of Geography, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, S4S 0A2, Canada.

306-585-4030, Fax: 306-585-4815, E-mail: sauchyn@max.cc.uregina.ca

Personal Data

Born August 8, 1952 at Edmonton, Alberta

Married, 3 Children

Education

Ph.D. Geography (Univ. Waterloo), 1984

M.A. Geography (Univ. Colorado, INSTAAR), 1979

B.Sc. Geography (Univ. Alberta), 1974

Experience

July 95 - present: Professor, Dept. Geography, University of Regina.
July 89 - June 95: Associate Professor, Dept. Geography, University of Regina.
Jan. 89 - Aug. 89: Visiting Professor, Mountain Research Station, University of Colorado.
July 84 - June 89: Assistant Professor, Dept. Geography, University of Regina.
July 82 - June 84: Lecturer, Dept. Geography, University of Regina.

Courses Taught

Introductory Geography, Physical Geography, Hydrology, Cold Environments, Geomorphology, Field Techniques, Quantitative Methods, Geographic Information Systems, Mountain Environments, and Theoretical Geomorphology.

Research Interests

Impacts of environmental change on the prairie landscape.
Geomorphology and environmental change.
Northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountains.
Application of GIS and remote sensing to physical geography.

Recent Professional Activities

President (1993-95), Saskatchewan Chapter, Soil and Water Conservation Society.
Advisory Council, Geospatial Analysis Program, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas, 1993-present.
Terrestrial Advisory Board to the Palliser Global Change Observatory, Geological Survey of Canada, 1991-present.
Water Studies Institute (1989-91; Chairman, 1990).
Inter-Agency Coordinating Committee on Topographic Information, Government of Saskatchewan, 1988-present.
Technical Advisory Committee for the Saskatchewan Sediment Program, Environment Canada, 1989-present.
Fellow, Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

Selected Recent Publications

1995 (with J.S. Aber, J.P. Bluemle, J. Brigham-Grette, L.A. Dredge, and D.L. Ackerman) Glaciotectonic Map of North America. Map and Chart Series MCH079, Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado.
1994 GIS modelling of agricultural soil loss in a plains glacial landscape. Quaternary International, 20: 163-170.
1993 Quaternary and Late Tertiary Landscapes of Southwestern Saskatchewan and Adjacent Areas. CPRC, Regina.
1993 Quaternary and Late Tertiary Landscape Evolution in the Western Cypress Hills. In Sauchyn, D.J. (ed.) Quaternary and Late Tertiary Landscapes of Southwestern Saskatchewan and Adjacent Area. Canadian Plains Research Center.
1993 Postglacial evolution of the semiarid Interior plains of Canada: An overview, relevant concepts and a spatial framework. In Aber, J.S. (ed.) Glaciotectonics and Mapping Glacial Deposits. CPRC, Regina.
1993 (with J.S. Aber, J.P. Bluemle, J. Brigham-Grette, L.A. Dredge, and D.L. Ackerman) Glaciotectonic data base and mapping of North America. In Aber, J.S. (ed.) Glaciotectonics and Mapping Glacial Deposits. CPRC.
1993 (with W.M. Last) Mineralogy and lithostratigraphy of Harris Lake, southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada. Journal of Paleolimnology, 9: 23-29.
1991 (with Yong Xongchao) Structure and Application of URIFT: An Interface Between Image Analysis and Vector GIS. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 17(4): 332-337.
1991 (with J.S. Aber, J.P. Brumle, and D.L. Ackerman) Great Plains glaciotectonics. North Dakota Geological Survey, Miscellaneous Map 31, scale 1:2,500,000.
1991 (with M.A. Sauchyn) A Continuous record of Holocene pollen from Harris Lake, Southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 88: 13-23.
1990 A reconstruction of Holocene geomorphology and climate, western Cypress, Alberta and Saskatchewan. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 27: 1504-1510.

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