Rate My Professor Brian Menounos

Brian Menounos is a professor in the Geography Program within the Department of Geography, Earth, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Northern British Columbia. He holds a BA and MA from the University of Colorado and a PhD from the University of British Columbia awarded in 2002. Menounos previously served as a Canada Research Chair in Glacier Change and maintains an active research program focused on understanding past and present climate change in western Canada through the study of glaciers, glacier change, process geomorphology, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, Quaternary and surficial geology, and surface hydrologic processes. His work examines Holocene glacier fluctuations, environmental controls on proglacial lake sedimentation, and recent and future changes to the cryosphere, with expertise spanning glacier mass balance, climate change, the cryosphere, geomorphology, Quaternary geology, natural hazards, and earth system science.

Menounos received the Distinguished Academic Award from the UNBC Faculty Association in 2019. He supervises graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in aspects of the cryosphere and climate change as well as earth surface processes and landforms. His contributions advance knowledge of glacier dynamics and their response to climate variability in mountain environments.