Dr. Krys Chutko

Dr. Krys Chutko

Geography & Earth and Environmental Science
Okanagan College
1000 KLO Rd.
Kelowna, BC,
V1Y 4X8
(250) 762-5445 Ext 4280
KChutko@Okanagan.bc.ca

Education

PhD – Queen’s University

MSc – University of Manchester

BSc – Trent University

Research Interests

My research interests are related to the linkages between weather and surface processes in Arctic regions. This work examines how positive temperatures that lead to snowmelt and rainfall events result in surface sediment transport and ultimately deposition in a lake bottom environment. Sedimentary records recovered from these lake bottoms can then be used to reconstruct past weather and environmental changes. I also have interests in the development of microbial mat ecosystems in Arctic lake bottoms, low level atmospheric properties, climate change and climate change policy, and the history of the Arctic.

Selected Publications

Chutko, K.J. and S.F. Lamoureux. 2009. Biolaminated sedimentation in a High Arctic freshwater lake. Sedimentology, 56: 1642-1654.

Chutko, K.J. and S.F. Lamoureux. 2009. The influence of low-level thermal inversions on estimated melt-season characteristics in the central Canadian Arctic. International Journal of Climatology, 29: 259-268.

Chutko, K.J. and S.F. Lamoureux. 2009. Identification of coherent links between interannual sedimentary structures and daily meteorological observations in Arctic proglacial lacustrine varves: potentials and limitations. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 45: 1-13.

Braithwaite, R.J., Raper, S.C.B., and K.J. Chutko. 2006. Accumulation at the equilibrium-line altitude of glaciers inferred from a degree-day model and tested against field observations. Annals of Glaciology, 43: 329-334.

Courses Taught

GEOG 111 – Introduction to Physical Geography: Climate & Vegetation (Lab)

EESC/GEOG 212 – Weather & Climate

GEOG 270 – Geographic Data Analysis

GEOG 272 – Cartography, Geographic Information Systems, & Remote Sensing