Prof. Michael Church

Dr. Church is an outstanding geomorphologist and earth scientist. He has made seminal contributions to the study of: (a) hydraulics and morphology of gravel rivers; (b) arctic fluvial environments; (c) hydrological and geomorphological aspects of floods; and (d) flow and sediment transport over boundaries of high roughness. He has also devised original techniques for field measurements and samplings, demonstrated the regional variability of river behaviour in western Canada, and has developed theoretical frameworks for the study of some important problems in earth science. He is internationally renowned for this work and has received high awards from the British Geomorphological Research Group, the Geological Society of America and the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, as well as Killam and Royal Society of London research fellowships.