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Brendan O'Neill

PhD Student

Degrees:B.Sc. (University of Victoria), M.Sc. (Carleton University)
Email:brendan.oneill@carleton.ca
Office:Loeb A33
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Research interests

  • Permafrost
  • Disturbance near infrastructure
  • Climate change impacts

Conferences

O’Neill, H.B., and Burn, C.R. 2015. Permafrost degradation adjacent to snow fences along the Dempster Highway, Peel Plateau, NWT. Oral presentation at the 68th Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference, 21-23 September 2015, Quebec City, QC.

O’Neill, H.B., Burn, C.R., and Kokelj, S.V. 2015. Field measurements of permafrost conditions beside the Dempster Highway embankment, Peel Plateau, NWT. Oral presentation at the 68th Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference, 21-23 September 2015, Quebec City, QC.

O’Neill HB, Burn CR, Kokelj SV. 2014. Permafrost conditions across an Arctic alpine tree line in the continuous permafrost zone, NWT, Canada. Poster Presentation at the 4th European Conference on Permafrost, 18-21 June 2014, Évora, Portugal.

O’Neill, HB, Burn, CR. 2013. Permafrost conditions along the Dempster Highway, Peel Plateau, NWT. Oral presentation at the 4th Annual Permafrost Network Workshop, 8 June 2013, Fairbanks, Alaska.

O’Neill HB, Burn CR. 2012. The development of near-surface ground ice at Illisarvik, Richards Island, Northwest Territories. Poster presentation at the International Polar Year Conference, 22-27 April 2012, Montreal, QC.

 Selected Publications

O’Neill, H.B., and Burn, C.R. 2015. Permafrost degradation adjacent to snow fences along the Dempster Highway, Peel Plateau, NWT. Paper 219. Proceedings, 68th Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference, 21-23 September 2015, Quebec City, QC, Canadian Geotechnical Society, Richmond, BC. 7 p. [PDF]

O’Neill, H.B., Burn, C.R., and Kokelj, S.V. 2015. Field measurements of permafrost conditions beside the Dempster Highway embankment, Peel Plateau, NWT. Paper 380. Proceedings, 68th Canadian Geotechnical Conference and 7th Canadian Permafrost Conference, 21-23 September 2015, Quebec City, QC, Canadian Geotechnical Society, Richmond, BC.  7 p. [PDF]

O’Neill, HB, Burn CR, Kokelj SV. Lantz TC. 2015. ‘Warm’ tundra: atmospheric and near-surface ground temperature inversions across an alpine treeline in continuous permafrost, western Arctic, Canada. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 26(2): 103-118. DOI: 10.1002/ppp.1838. [LINK]

Gill HK, Lantz TC, O’Neill HB, Kokelj SV. 2014. Cumulative Impacts and Feedbacks of a Gravel Road on Shrub Tundra Ecosystems in the Peel Plateau, Northwest Territories, Canada. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 46(4):947-961. http://dx.doi.org/10.1657/1938-4246-46.4.947 [LINK]

O’Neill, HB, Burn, CR. 2012. Physical and temporal factors controlling the development of near-surface ground ice at Illisarvik, western Arctic coast, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2012, 49(9): 1096-1110, 10.1139/e2012-043 [LINK]

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