Lawrence Plug
Faculty | Assistant Professor
 
Email:

ljp @ Dal.Ca

Address:

Department of Earth Sciences
Dalhousie University
1459 Oxford Street
PO BOX 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada
B3H 4R2

Office:

Life Sciences Centre
4th floor, Ocean Wing [plan]
Rm. 4613

Telephone:

902 494-1200

902 494-6889 (fax)

Homepage: surface.earthsciences.dal.ca
Groups: Surface, Marine, and Environmental; Pattern Lab
 

 

 

Current Research
 
  • surface processes in cold regions
  • pattern formation in geomorphic systems
  • automata and numerical modelling
  • nonlinear analysis of time-series and patterns
  • fracture networks
Education
  B.A., McGill University, Montreal (1994)
Ph.D., University of Alaska, Fairbanks (2000)
Teaching
 

ERTH/GEOG 3440 Geomorphology
ERTH/GEOG 1030 Introduction to Physical Geography
ERTH/GEOG 4450/5450 Introduction to Landscape Simulation
SUST 1001 Introduction to Environment, Society and Sustainability

Selected Publications
 

L.J. Plug and J.J. West. (2008). Thaw lake expansion in a two-dimensional coupled model of heat transfer, thaw subsidence and mass movement. Journal of Geophysical Research.

J. J. West and L. J. Plug (2008), Time-dependent morphology of thaw lakes and taliks in deep and shallow ground ice, J. Geophys. Res., 113, F01009, doi:10.1029/2006JF000696.

L.J. Plug, C. Walls and B.M. Scott, (2008), Tundra lake changes from 1978--2001 on the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula, Western Canadian Arctic. Geophysical Research Letters 35, L03502, doi:10.1029/2007GL032303

L.J. Plug and B.T. Werner (2008). Modelling of ice-wedge networks. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. doi:10.1002/ppp.604

L.J. Plug, J.C. Gosse, J.M. McIntosh and R. Bigley, (2007). Attenuation of cosmic rays in temperate forest. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, F02022, doi:10.1029/2006JF000668

Plug, L.J. and Werner, B.T.  (2002) Nonlinear dynamics of ice-wedge networks and resulting sensitivity to severe cooling events, Nature  17, 929-930.  (PDF)

Plug, L.J. and Werner, B.T. (2001) Fracture networks in frozen ground. Journal of Geophysical Research 106, 8599-8613.

Mann, D.H. and Plug, L.J. (1999) Vegetation and soil development at an upland taiga site, Alaska. Ecoscience 6, 272-285.

Plug, L.J. and Werner, B.T. (1998) A numerical model for the organization of ice-wedge networks. Permafrost Seventh International Conference Proceedings, 897-902.

Mason, O.K., Hopkins, D.M. and Plug, L.J. (1997) Chronology and paleoclimate of storm-induced erosion and episodic dune growth across Cape Espenberg Spit, Alaska. Journal of Coastal Research 13, 770-797.

Mason, O.K., Jordan, J.W. and Plug, L.J. (1995) Late Holocene storm and sea-level history in the Chukchi Sea. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 17, 173-180.

Plug, L.J. (1994) Active-layer depths during Full Glacial conditions for Fairbanks, Alaska. Current Research in the Pleistocene 11, 146-149. 

Current Students
  Sakalima Sikaneta (PhD candidate)
Post Doctoral Fellows
 
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