EDUCATION

EXPERIENCE

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Kovanen, D.J., & Slaymaker, O. (in press). Deming Glacier Fluctuations and Theoretical Equilibrium-line Altitudes during the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene, Mount Baker, Washington, USA. Boreas.

Kovanen, D.J., & Begét, J.E. 2005. Comments on "Early Holocene glacier advance, southern Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Canada" by Menounos et al. 2004. Quaternary Science Reviews 

Kovanen, D.J., & Slaymaker, O. 2004. Relict shorelines and ice-flow patterns of the northern Puget Lowland from lidar data and digital terrain modelling. Geograsika Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography 86A, 385–400.

Kovanen, D.J., & Slaymaker, O., 2004. Glacial imprints of the Okanogan Lobe, Southern Margin of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet. Journal of Quaternary Science 19, 547–565. 

Kovanen, D.J., & Slaymaker, O., 2003. Lake Terrell upland glacial resurgences and implications for late-glacial history, Northwestern Washington State, U.S.A. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences  40, 1767–1772 .

Kovanen, D.J., 2003. Decadal variability in climate and glacier fluctuations on Mt. Baker, Washington, U.S.A. Geografiska Annaler. Series A, Physical Geography 85, 43–55.

Kovanen, D.J., 2002. Morphologic and stratigraphic evidence for Allerød and Younger Dryas age glacier fluctuations of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, British Columbia, Canada and Northwestern Washington, U.S.A. Boreas 31, 163–184.

Kovanen, D.J., & Easterbrook, D.J., 2002. Extent and timing of Allerød and Younger Dryas age (ca. 12.5–10.0 14C kyr BP) oscillations of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet in the Fraser Lowland, Western North America. Quaternary Research 57, 208–224.

Kovanen, D.J., & Easterbrook, D.J., 2002. Paleodeviations of radiocarbon marine reservoir values for the NE Pacific. Geological Society of America Geology 30, 243–246.

Kovanen, D.J., Easterbrook, D.J., & Thomas, T., 2001. Holocene eruptive history of Mount Baker, Washington. Canadian Journal of Earth Science 38, 1355–1366.

Kovanen, D.J., & Easterbrook, D.J., 2001. Late Pleistocene, post-Vashon, alpine glaciation of the Nooksack drainage, North Cascades, Washington. Geological Society of America Bulletin 113, 274–288.

Easterbrook, D.J., & Kovanen, D.J., 1998. ‘Pre-Younger Dryas resurgence of the southwestern margin of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, British Columbia, Canada’: Comments. Boreas 27, 225–230.

Other Publications

Slaymaker, O., Kovanen, D.J., Bovis, M., & Schiefer, E., 2004. Pre-conference field excursion: Sediment and Solute Fluxes in the Lillooet River Basin. International Conference on Sediment and Geochemical Budgets in Geomorphology to Honour Professor Olav Slaymaker, Vancouver Canada, 115 pp.

Kovanen, D.J., 2003. Sea-level changes, isostatic movements, and ice-flow indicators on Whidbey and Camano Islands, northern Puget Lowland: geologic data from LIDAR-aided observations. In Quaternary Geology of the United States (D.J. Easterbrook, Ed.), INQUA 2003 Field Guide Volume, 268–270.

Kovanen, D.J., & Slaymaker, O., 2003. Glacial geomorphology and ice-flow indicators of the Okanogan Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet: an archive of glacial features. In Quaternary Geology of the United States (D.J. Easterbrook, Ed.), INQUA 2003 Field Guide Volume, 281–282.

Easterbrook, D.J., & Kovanen, D.J., 1999. Interpretation of landforms from topographic maps and air photographs laboratory  manual. Publisher, Prentice Hall, 193 p.

Kovanen, D.J., & Easterbrook, D.J. 1996. Extensive readvance of late Pleistocene (YD?) alpine glaciers in the Nooksack River Valley, 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, following retreat of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, North Cascades, Washington: Pacific Coast Cell, Friends of the Pleistocene, Field Trip Guidebook, Western Washington University, Department of Geology, Bellingham, 74 p.

Theses

Kovanen, D.J., 2001. Late Glacial ice margin fluctuations (~12.5–10.0 14C kyr BP) in the Fraser Lowland and adjacent Nooksack Valley, Southwestern British Columbia and Northwestern Washington, Ph.D., Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia.

     Committee members: Garry Clarke (supervisor), Olav Slaymaker, Tom Pedersen

     External examiner: John Andrews

Kovanen, D.J., 1996. Extensive late-Pleistocene alpine glaciation in the Nooksack River Valley, North Cascades, Washington,  M.S. thesis, Department of Geology, Western Washington University.

     Committee members: Don Easterbrook (supervisor), Dave Engebretson, John Field.

       SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS 

REGISTRATION/MEMBERSHIPS

• Professional Geologist License, Washington State (#2216)

• Professional Engineering Geologist License, Washington State (#2216)

• Geological Society of America

• Northwest Geological Society

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