Multi-Hazards in a Risky World: Interview with Dr. John Clague

Jun 4, 2020

 

In this episode, Dr. John Clague opens a discussion about multi-hazards in our modern world.  As a geo-hazard specialist, he explores earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, etc. in the context of growing populations.  He explains how physical science needs to add to the conversation about society, how and where we live and how we respond to risks.  In a limited global environment, with resources threatened by climate change, biodiversity loss, as well as poor governance and human decisions, Dr. Clague maps out what are some possible solutions.  He reflects on lessons from the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-1919 and our recent COVID-19 challenges.  Dealing with complex issues of racism, inequity, globalisation and geohazard careers, he offers some ideas for the way forward.

 

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Dr. John Clague's Bio

Dr. John Clague is Emeritus Professor at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, in the province of British Columbia in Canada. He was educated at Occidental College (BA), the University of California Berkeley (MA), and the University of British Columbia (PhD). He worked as a Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada from 1975 until 1998. In 1998 he accepted a faculty position in Department of Earth Sciences at Simon Fraser University. Dr. Clague is a Quaternary geologist with research specialisations in glacial geology, geomorphology, natural hazards and climate change.

Dr. Clague is former Director of the Centre for Natural Hazard Research at Simon Fraser University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, former President of the Geological Association of Canada, and Past-President of the International Union for Quaternary Research and the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (APEGBC). He is recipient of the Geological Society of America Burwell Award, the Royal Society of Canada Bancroft Award, APEGBC’s Innovation Editorial Board Award, the Geological Association of Canada’s (GAC) E.R.W Neale Medal, GAC’s Logan Medal and Ambrose Medal, and Geoscientists Canada 2019 Professional Geoscientist Award. He received an Honorary PhD from the University of Waterloo in 2017 and was inducted into the Order of Canada in 2020.

Dr. Clague is a leading authority in natural hazards and risk and in Quaternary and environmental earth sciences. A major focus of his research, over the 50-year period since he published his first paper on large slumps in the Monterey Formation in Point Reyes National Seashore in California, is natural hazards, with emphasis on landslides. He is noted for local national, and international research collaboration with other geologists, engineers, geographers, biologists, and physicists. He and his students have conducted research on landslides, earthquakes, tsunamis and floods in Canada, the USA, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Austria, Italy and New Zealand.