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Mountain Geomorphology and Climate Change Rock glaciers, Glaciers, Permafrost, and Freeze-Thaw Processes

GIScience Applied GIS modeling and Uncertainty in Geographic Information

Remote Sensing Applied Remote Sensing, Integration of Geospatial Technologies, and Land Cover Change

Publications

Janke, Jason R.  A hazard assessment and geomorphological interpretation of the California rock glacier, Blanca Massif, Colorado using remote sensing, GIS, and field techniques in Geotechnologies and the Environment. Editors: Pullen, Nancy and Patterson, Mark. (In Review)

Janke, Jason R.  A review of Darkening Peaks: Glacier Retreat, Science, and Society in The Professional Geographer 61 (2): 274-275.

Janke, Jason R., and Larry W. Price. Mountain Geomorphology in Mountains and People.  Editors:Byers, Alton and Friend, Donald, University of California Press, Berkeley. (In Review)

Janke, Jason R.  “Multicriteria GIS modeling of wind and solar farms in Colorado.”  Renewable Energy. (In Review)

Janke, Jason R. and Regula Frauenfelder. “The relationship between rock glacier and contributing area parameters in the Front Range of Colorado.” Journal of Quaternary Science 23: 153-163.
Janke, Jason R. “Colorado Front Range rock glaciers: Distribution and Topographic Characteristics.” Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 39 (1): 74-83.
Janke, Jason R. “Long-term flow measurements (1961 – 2002) of Arapaho, Taylor, and Fair rock glaciers, Front Range, Colorado.” Physical Geography 26 (4): 313-336.
Janke, Jason R. “Photogrammetric Analysis of Front Range rock glacier flow rates.” Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography 87 (4): 515 - 526.
Janke, Jason R. “Modeling Past and Future Permafrost Distribution in the Colorado Front Range.” Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 30 (12): 1495-1508.
Janke, Jason R. “The Occurrence of Alpine Permafrost in the Front Range of Colorado” Geomorphology 67 (3-4): 375-389.
Janke, Jason R.  “An analysis of the current stability of the dune field at Great Sand Dunes National Monument using temporal TM imagery (1984  –  1998).” Remote Sensing of Environment 83 (3): 488 – 497.
Janke, Jason R. “Rock glacier mapping: A method utilizing enhanced TM data and GIS modeling techniques.” Geocarto International 16 (3): 5 – 15.

 

 

bulletMaster's Thesis - Rock Glacier Mapping: A Repeatable Method Utilizing GIS and Image Enhancement Techniques
bulletThesis Description
 
bulletPh.D. Dissertation - Rock Glaciers in the Front Range: An Analysis of Distribution, Topoclimatic Variables, Permafrost, and Flow
bulletDissertation Chapters - (links are animated .gifs or .jpg maps)
bulletRock Glacier Topoclimatic (DEM) variables
bulletTaylor Rock Glacier Fly-By
bulletDistribution of Active, Inactive, Fossil, Tongue-shaped, and Lobate Rock Glaciers
bulletGIS Permafrost Modeling
bulletModel Summary
bulletPermafrost Distribution
bulletUncertainty of DEM measurements using GIS Monte Carlo random number generation
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Aspect Uncertainty, Slope Uncertainty, Elevation Uncertainty

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Permafrost Model Uncertainty

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GIS Modeling of Permafrost Distribution in cooler and warmer climates
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Change on Niwot Ridge

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Change in the Front Range

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Field Analysis of Flow
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Arapaho Rock Glacier Flow Rates

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GIS and Photogrammetric Analysis of Flow
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Arapaho Rock Glacier Horizontal Velocity Interpolation and Uncertainty

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Arapaho Rock Glacier Vertical Velocity and Uncertainty

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Change in Horizontal Velocity from 1978-1990 to 1990-1999
 

bulletOther Research - Areal Changes in Dune Extent at Great Sand Dunes National Monument (1984 - 1998)
bulletOther Research Description
 
bulletCurriculum Vitae - Academic Career
bulletVitae (Adobe .pdf file)

 

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