Prof.
Wayne Pollard

805 Sherbrooke Street W
Montreal, QC
H3A2K6 Canada
Tel: (514) 398 4454
Fax: (514) 398 7437
Email: pollard at felix.geog.mcgill.ca

Chair of the Canadian Committee for Antarctic Research
Director of Centre for Climate and Global Change Research, McGill University
Director of McGill Northern Field Stations in Schefferville Quebec and on Axel Heiberg Island

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Permafrost and periglacial geomorphology, permafrost hydrology

massive ground ice
ice petrography
frost mounds and icings
high latitude springs
Mars analogues
Arctic and Antarctic

My primary research activities are concerned with the investigation of the nature and origin of massive ground ice in the Canadian High Arctic and in the McMurdo Dry Valleys region of Antarctica, its role in landscape evolution, and an assessment of its response to global warming. Another focus is the investigation of polar hydrologic systems with respect to groundwater processes like the formation of travertines, frost mounds and icings. One aspect of this research is the investigation of perennial springs on Axel Heiberg Island and there possible application as an analogue for past microbial life on Mars.

PUBLICATIONS

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