Newfoundland offers a range of opportunities to pursue this work, with its varied coastal and topographic effects upon short term weather conditions and longer term climate. My own research contributions have focussed especially upon how the distribution and amounts of liquid and frozen precipitation can be affected by these factors at different times of the year, with special emphasis upon conditions over the Avalon peninsula and western Newfoundland. Amongst the attractions of the work are its blend of specialised field measurement, observation of typically varied Newfoundland weather and the challenge of seeking physical explanation of the patterns encountered. Undergraduate students who have assisted me with this research have gained experience with field observation, instrumentation and data analysis, to combine with their climatology course work, and have gone on to higher degrees in geography, meteorology or environmental science and, in some cases, to a career with the Atmospheric Environment Service. My research focuses on past environmental change in Eastern and Arctic Canada.
Projects involve, for example, sea level history, glacier movements and landscape evolution.
I work closely with archaeologists, geologists and biologists and use a variety of field and laboratory techniques such as terrain mapping, lake sediment analysis and satellite remote sensing. Students have been actively involved in these projects either helping me collect field data or conducting laboratory analyses. Some of his previous research has involved climatological monitoring in Antarctica. Currently I am researching a demand-side approach to the measurement of producer services. Producer services are intermediate inputs used in the production of other goods and services.