Michael Church

Professor Emeritus
phone 604 822 2663
Education

Durham University, 2008, DSc
University of Toronto, BA


About

 

My research interests focus on the morphodynamics of rivers at all scales from steepland streams to large rivers. I am engaged in long-term studies of sediment transport and stability in Fraser River. Sediment transport is also studied in an experimental program conducted in the stream dynamics laboratory at Simon Fraser University in association with Professor Jeremy Vendittti. In addition, I am interested in world fluvial sediment yield, fluvial landscape evolution over intermediate time scales (order 10,000 years), and in the history and methodology of geomorphology. I am a registered Professional Geoscientist in the Province of British Columbia.

 

Honours: Order of Canada; Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada; Fellow of the American Geophysical Union; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science


Teaching


Publications

2020

Dudill, A., Venditti, J. G., Church, M. and Frey, P. 2020. Comparing the behaviour of spherical beads and natural grains in bedload mixtures. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 45(4): 831-840. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4772

. Are Results in Geomorphology Reproducible? Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface 125 (8). doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JF005553

Church, M. and Jakob, M. 2020. What Is a Debris Flood? Water Resources Research 56(8): doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR027144

Venditti, J. G., Li, T., Deal, E., Dingle, E. and Church, M. 2020. Struggles with stream power: Connecting theory across scales. Geomorphology 366. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.07.004

Church, M. 2020. The place of field studies in environmental science. In Curious about Nature: A Passion for Fieldwork, edited by T. P. Burt and D. B. A. Thompson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

2019

VENDITTI, J. G., NITTROUER, J. A., ALLISON, M. A., HUMPHRIES, R. P. and CHURCH, M. 2019 ‘Supply-limited bedform patterns and scaling downstream of a gravel–sand transition’ Sedimentology 66(6), 2538-2556   https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12604

CHURCH, M. 2019 A puzzle and a promise. In The Heart of the Fraser, edited by K. Ashley, 46-50. Fernando Lessa Publishing.

 

2018

HENDERSHOT, M. L., VENDITTI, J. G., CHURCH, M., BRADLEY, R., KOSTASCHUK, R. A. and ALLISON, M. A. 2018 ‘Crestline bifurcation and dynamics in fluvially-dominated, tidally-influenced flow’ Sedimentology 65(7), 2621-2636  https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12480

MACKENZIE, L. G., EATON, B. C. and CHURCH, M. 2018 ‘Breaking from the average: Why large grains matter in gravel-bed streams’ Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 43(15), 3190-3196  https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4465

RENNIE, C. D., CHURCH, M. and VENDITTI, J. G. 2018 ‘Rock Control of River Geometry: The Fraser Canyons’ Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface 123(8), 1860-1878  https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JF004458

DUDILL, A., LAFAVE DE MICHEAUX, H., FREY, P. and CHURCH, M. 2018 ‘Introducing Finer Grains Into Bedload: The Transition to a New Equilibrium’ Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface 123(10), 2602-2619  https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JF004847

 

2017

Dudill, A., Frey, P. and Church, M. 2017. Infiltration of fine sediment into a coarse mobile bed: a phenomenological study. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 42: 1171-11185. doi: 10.1002/esp.4080.

Church, M. and Haschenburger, J. 2017. What is the active layer? Water Resources Research 53: 5-10. doi: 10.1002/2016WR019675.

Church, M. 2017. Fraser River: history in a changing landscape. Chapter 27 in O. Slaymaker, editor, Landscapes and Landforms of Western Canada. Cham, Switzerlanld, Springer: 381-393. doi: 10.1007/3-319-44595-3_27.

Gitto, A., Venditti, J.G., Kostaschuk, R.A. and Church, M. 2017. Representative Point-Integrated Suspended Sediment Sampling in Rivers. Water Resources Research 53: 2956-2971. doi: 10.1002/2016WR019187.

Church, M. 2017. Reconstructing periglacial geomorphology: the contribution of J. Ross Mackay. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 28: 517-522. doi: 10.1002/ppp.1867. (invited)

Church, M. 2017. Interpreting sediment yield scaling. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 42: 1895-1898. doi: 10.1002/esp.4165.

Hassan, M., Roberge, L., Church, M., More, M., Donner, S.D., Leach, J. and Ali, F. 2017. What are the contemporary sources of sediment into the Mississippi River? Geophysical Research Letters 44: 8919-8924. doi: 10.1002/2017GL074046.

 

2016

Hendershot, Megan L., Venditti, Jeremy G., Bradley, Ryan, Kostaschuk, Ray A., Church, Michael and Allison, Mead A. 2016. Response of low-angle dunes to variable flow. Sedimentology 63: 743-760. doi: 10.1111/sed.12236.

Venditti, J.G., Church, M., Attard, M.E. and Haught, D. 2016. Use of ADCPs for suspended sediment transport monitoring: an empirical approach. Water Resources Research 52: 1715-1736. doi: 10.1002/2015WR017348.

Church, M. and Slaymaker, O. 2016. Signatures of sediment yield in the world’s mountains. In Mainali, K. and Sicroff, S., editor, Jack D. Ives, Montologist: Festschrift for a Mountain Advocate. Himalayan Association for the Advancement of Science. Lalitpur, Nepal, Font Press: 67-93.

Dudill, A., Frey, P., Church, M., Lafaye de Micheaux, H. 2016. Exploring the influence of a mobile surface upon infiltration. In Constantinescu, G., Garcia, M., Hanes, D., eds., River Flow 2016: Proceedings of the International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, St Louis, USA, 11-14 July. CRC Press, Taylor and Frances Group: 338-339 (extended abstract: full paper on CD.

 


Michael Church

Professor Emeritus
phone 604 822 2663
Education

Durham University, 2008, DSc
University of Toronto, BA


About

 

My research interests focus on the morphodynamics of rivers at all scales from steepland streams to large rivers. I am engaged in long-term studies of sediment transport and stability in Fraser River. Sediment transport is also studied in an experimental program conducted in the stream dynamics laboratory at Simon Fraser University in association with Professor Jeremy Vendittti. In addition, I am interested in world fluvial sediment yield, fluvial landscape evolution over intermediate time scales (order 10,000 years), and in the history and methodology of geomorphology. I am a registered Professional Geoscientist in the Province of British Columbia.

 

Honours: Order of Canada; Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada; Fellow of the American Geophysical Union; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science


Teaching


Publications

2020

Dudill, A., Venditti, J. G., Church, M. and Frey, P. 2020. Comparing the behaviour of spherical beads and natural grains in bedload mixtures. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 45(4): 831-840. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4772

. Are Results in Geomorphology Reproducible? Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface 125 (8). doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JF005553

Church, M. and Jakob, M. 2020. What Is a Debris Flood? Water Resources Research 56(8): doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR027144

Venditti, J. G., Li, T., Deal, E., Dingle, E. and Church, M. 2020. Struggles with stream power: Connecting theory across scales. Geomorphology 366. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.07.004

Church, M. 2020. The place of field studies in environmental science. In Curious about Nature: A Passion for Fieldwork, edited by T. P. Burt and D. B. A. Thompson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

2019

VENDITTI, J. G., NITTROUER, J. A., ALLISON, M. A., HUMPHRIES, R. P. and CHURCH, M. 2019 ‘Supply-limited bedform patterns and scaling downstream of a gravel–sand transition’ Sedimentology 66(6), 2538-2556   https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12604

CHURCH, M. 2019 A puzzle and a promise. In The Heart of the Fraser, edited by K. Ashley, 46-50. Fernando Lessa Publishing.

 

2018

HENDERSHOT, M. L., VENDITTI, J. G., CHURCH, M., BRADLEY, R., KOSTASCHUK, R. A. and ALLISON, M. A. 2018 ‘Crestline bifurcation and dynamics in fluvially-dominated, tidally-influenced flow’ Sedimentology 65(7), 2621-2636  https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12480

MACKENZIE, L. G., EATON, B. C. and CHURCH, M. 2018 ‘Breaking from the average: Why large grains matter in gravel-bed streams’ Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 43(15), 3190-3196  https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4465

RENNIE, C. D., CHURCH, M. and VENDITTI, J. G. 2018 ‘Rock Control of River Geometry: The Fraser Canyons’ Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface 123(8), 1860-1878  https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JF004458

DUDILL, A., LAFAVE DE MICHEAUX, H., FREY, P. and CHURCH, M. 2018 ‘Introducing Finer Grains Into Bedload: The Transition to a New Equilibrium’ Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface 123(10), 2602-2619  https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JF004847

 

2017

Dudill, A., Frey, P. and Church, M. 2017. Infiltration of fine sediment into a coarse mobile bed: a phenomenological study. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 42: 1171-11185. doi: 10.1002/esp.4080.

Church, M. and Haschenburger, J. 2017. What is the active layer? Water Resources Research 53: 5-10. doi: 10.1002/2016WR019675.

Church, M. 2017. Fraser River: history in a changing landscape. Chapter 27 in O. Slaymaker, editor, Landscapes and Landforms of Western Canada. Cham, Switzerlanld, Springer: 381-393. doi: 10.1007/3-319-44595-3_27.

Gitto, A., Venditti, J.G., Kostaschuk, R.A. and Church, M. 2017. Representative Point-Integrated Suspended Sediment Sampling in Rivers. Water Resources Research 53: 2956-2971. doi: 10.1002/2016WR019187.

Church, M. 2017. Reconstructing periglacial geomorphology: the contribution of J. Ross Mackay. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 28: 517-522. doi: 10.1002/ppp.1867. (invited)

Church, M. 2017. Interpreting sediment yield scaling. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 42: 1895-1898. doi: 10.1002/esp.4165.

Hassan, M., Roberge, L., Church, M., More, M., Donner, S.D., Leach, J. and Ali, F. 2017. What are the contemporary sources of sediment into the Mississippi River? Geophysical Research Letters 44: 8919-8924. doi: 10.1002/2017GL074046.

 

2016

Hendershot, Megan L., Venditti, Jeremy G., Bradley, Ryan, Kostaschuk, Ray A., Church, Michael and Allison, Mead A. 2016. Response of low-angle dunes to variable flow. Sedimentology 63: 743-760. doi: 10.1111/sed.12236.

Venditti, J.G., Church, M., Attard, M.E. and Haught, D. 2016. Use of ADCPs for suspended sediment transport monitoring: an empirical approach. Water Resources Research 52: 1715-1736. doi: 10.1002/2015WR017348.

Church, M. and Slaymaker, O. 2016. Signatures of sediment yield in the world’s mountains. In Mainali, K. and Sicroff, S., editor, Jack D. Ives, Montologist: Festschrift for a Mountain Advocate. Himalayan Association for the Advancement of Science. Lalitpur, Nepal, Font Press: 67-93.

Dudill, A., Frey, P., Church, M., Lafaye de Micheaux, H. 2016. Exploring the influence of a mobile surface upon infiltration. In Constantinescu, G., Garcia, M., Hanes, D., eds., River Flow 2016: Proceedings of the International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, St Louis, USA, 11-14 July. CRC Press, Taylor and Frances Group: 338-339 (extended abstract: full paper on CD.

 


Michael Church

Professor Emeritus
phone 604 822 2663
Education

Durham University, 2008, DSc
University of Toronto, BA

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My research interests focus on the morphodynamics of rivers at all scales from steepland streams to large rivers. I am engaged in long-term studies of sediment transport and stability in Fraser River. Sediment transport is also studied in an experimental program conducted in the stream dynamics laboratory at Simon Fraser University in association with Professor Jeremy Vendittti. In addition, I am interested in world fluvial sediment yield, fluvial landscape evolution over intermediate time scales (order 10,000 years), and in the history and methodology of geomorphology. I am a registered Professional Geoscientist in the Province of British Columbia.

 

Honours: Order of Canada; Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada; Fellow of the American Geophysical Union; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Teaching keyboard_arrow_down
Publications keyboard_arrow_down

2020

Dudill, A., Venditti, J. G., Church, M. and Frey, P. 2020. Comparing the behaviour of spherical beads and natural grains in bedload mixtures. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 45(4): 831-840. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4772

. Are Results in Geomorphology Reproducible? Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface 125 (8). doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JF005553

Church, M. and Jakob, M. 2020. What Is a Debris Flood? Water Resources Research 56(8): doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR027144

Venditti, J. G., Li, T., Deal, E., Dingle, E. and Church, M. 2020. Struggles with stream power: Connecting theory across scales. Geomorphology 366. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.07.004

Church, M. 2020. The place of field studies in environmental science. In Curious about Nature: A Passion for Fieldwork, edited by T. P. Burt and D. B. A. Thompson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

2019

VENDITTI, J. G., NITTROUER, J. A., ALLISON, M. A., HUMPHRIES, R. P. and CHURCH, M. 2019 ‘Supply-limited bedform patterns and scaling downstream of a gravel–sand transition’ Sedimentology 66(6), 2538-2556   https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12604

CHURCH, M. 2019 A puzzle and a promise. In The Heart of the Fraser, edited by K. Ashley, 46-50. Fernando Lessa Publishing.

 

2018

HENDERSHOT, M. L., VENDITTI, J. G., CHURCH, M., BRADLEY, R., KOSTASCHUK, R. A. and ALLISON, M. A. 2018 ‘Crestline bifurcation and dynamics in fluvially-dominated, tidally-influenced flow’ Sedimentology 65(7), 2621-2636  https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12480

MACKENZIE, L. G., EATON, B. C. and CHURCH, M. 2018 ‘Breaking from the average: Why large grains matter in gravel-bed streams’ Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 43(15), 3190-3196  https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4465

RENNIE, C. D., CHURCH, M. and VENDITTI, J. G. 2018 ‘Rock Control of River Geometry: The Fraser Canyons’ Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface 123(8), 1860-1878  https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JF004458

DUDILL, A., LAFAVE DE MICHEAUX, H., FREY, P. and CHURCH, M. 2018 ‘Introducing Finer Grains Into Bedload: The Transition to a New Equilibrium’ Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface 123(10), 2602-2619  https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JF004847

 

2017

Dudill, A., Frey, P. and Church, M. 2017. Infiltration of fine sediment into a coarse mobile bed: a phenomenological study. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 42: 1171-11185. doi: 10.1002/esp.4080.

Church, M. and Haschenburger, J. 2017. What is the active layer? Water Resources Research 53: 5-10. doi: 10.1002/2016WR019675.

Church, M. 2017. Fraser River: history in a changing landscape. Chapter 27 in O. Slaymaker, editor, Landscapes and Landforms of Western Canada. Cham, Switzerlanld, Springer: 381-393. doi: 10.1007/3-319-44595-3_27.

Gitto, A., Venditti, J.G., Kostaschuk, R.A. and Church, M. 2017. Representative Point-Integrated Suspended Sediment Sampling in Rivers. Water Resources Research 53: 2956-2971. doi: 10.1002/2016WR019187.

Church, M. 2017. Reconstructing periglacial geomorphology: the contribution of J. Ross Mackay. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 28: 517-522. doi: 10.1002/ppp.1867. (invited)

Church, M. 2017. Interpreting sediment yield scaling. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 42: 1895-1898. doi: 10.1002/esp.4165.

Hassan, M., Roberge, L., Church, M., More, M., Donner, S.D., Leach, J. and Ali, F. 2017. What are the contemporary sources of sediment into the Mississippi River? Geophysical Research Letters 44: 8919-8924. doi: 10.1002/2017GL074046.

 

2016

Hendershot, Megan L., Venditti, Jeremy G., Bradley, Ryan, Kostaschuk, Ray A., Church, Michael and Allison, Mead A. 2016. Response of low-angle dunes to variable flow. Sedimentology 63: 743-760. doi: 10.1111/sed.12236.

Venditti, J.G., Church, M., Attard, M.E. and Haught, D. 2016. Use of ADCPs for suspended sediment transport monitoring: an empirical approach. Water Resources Research 52: 1715-1736. doi: 10.1002/2015WR017348.

Church, M. and Slaymaker, O. 2016. Signatures of sediment yield in the world’s mountains. In Mainali, K. and Sicroff, S., editor, Jack D. Ives, Montologist: Festschrift for a Mountain Advocate. Himalayan Association for the Advancement of Science. Lalitpur, Nepal, Font Press: 67-93.

Dudill, A., Frey, P., Church, M., Lafaye de Micheaux, H. 2016. Exploring the influence of a mobile surface upon infiltration. In Constantinescu, G., Garcia, M., Hanes, D., eds., River Flow 2016: Proceedings of the International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, St Louis, USA, 11-14 July. CRC Press, Taylor and Frances Group: 338-339 (extended abstract: full paper on CD.