Research Interests
- Sediment Production in Watersheds
- Fluvial and Glacial Geomorphology
- Physical Limnology
- Quaternary Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction
Biographical Information
Dr. Dirszowsky obtained his undergraduate and graduate degrees in geography from the University of Toronto. He also taught extensively in the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto and at Queen's University as an Advisory Research Committee/Principal's Development Fund Postdoctoral Fellow. He taught for one year at Carleton University before taking up a permanent position at Laurentian University where he is cross-appointed between the Department of Geography and the Department of Biology and a member of the Cooperative Freshwater Ecology Unit. His teaching interests are in Physical Geography and the Earth and Environmental Sciences with emphasis on connections between sub-disciplines and other areas of geography. He has taught introductory courses in Physical Geography, Earth Sciences, GIS, Geomorphology and Pedology, Hydrology and Climatology, and advanced courses in Quaternary Paleoclimatic Reconstruction and Physical Geography and Earth Science Research Methods and Field Methods. His research activities and interests focus on sediment production/movement in watersheds and lacustrine systems, landscape evolution and environmental change. He is currently working to distinguish natural (climate change) and anthropogenic impacts on the sensitive and in some cases highly disturbed Boreal Shield landscapes near Sudbury in northeastern Ontario. Additional research is being carried out in Western Canada, the Antarctic Peninsula region, the French Alps and Venezuelan Andes. He is a member of the Canadian Association of Geographers, the Canadian Geomorphological Research Group, and the Canadian Quaternary Association.
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