Professor Graham Cogley
M.A., Oxford
M.Sc., McMaster
Ph.D., McMaster
Research and Teaching Interests:
Graham Cogley is a physical geographer with interests in glaciology, climatology, geomorphology and geographical information science. He is responsible for the maintenance of Trent's long-standing programme of mass-balance and other glaciological measurements at Expedition Fiord, Axel Heiberg Island, and of a database of worldwide mass-balance and hydrographic measurements, which have been the basis for several of his published papers in recent years. He has also done work on glaciological remote sensing, land-surface climate modelling, map projections and the glacial geomorphology of the Peterborough area.
Prof. Cogley's teaching interests parallel his research interests. His current undergraduate courses include GEOG240-Geology, GEOG256H-Large-scale Geomorphology, GEOG341H-Climatic Change, and GEOG351H-Glacial and Quaternary Geomorphology and he occasionally teaches GEOG246H-The Global Climate System, GEOG353H-Hydrology and GEOG440-Research in Physical Geography. The supervision of theses by senior undergraduates is an important part of teaching in the Trent Geography Department. These theses often lead to publications in the scientific literature. Cogley and McIntyre (2003; see below) is an example of a paper based on work by Matt McIntyre, a recent graduate of the program.
Selected Recent Publications:
Cogley, J.G., 2009, A more complete version of the World Glacier Inventory, Annals of Glaciology, 50(53), 32-38.
Cogley, J.G., 2009, Geodetic and direct mass-balance measurements: comparison and joint analysis, Annals of Glaciology, 50(50), 96-100.
Lemke, P., et al., 2007, Observations: changes in snow, ice and frozen ground, in Solomon, S., et al., eds., Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 337-383. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (Contributing author)
Cogley, J.G., and M.S. McIntyre, 2003, Hess altitudes and related
morphological estimators of glacier equilibrium lines, Arctic, Antarctic and
Alpine Research, 35(4), 482-488.