Geography : Faculty - Karl Lillquist

Current Research Interests

• Geomorphology and landscape evolution in mountain and arid watersheds
• Historic and prehistoric glacier fluctuations in mountainous Western North America
• Glacial geomorphology, chronology, and landscape evolution on the Columbia Plateau
• Arroyo incision on Washington's Columbia Plateau
• Geography of World War II, Japanese American relocation centers in the Western U.S.
• Landscape degradation in Iceland and Central Washington
• Landscapes of Columbia Plateau late Pleistocene mammoth sites
• Using catastrophe and historically significant events to teach physical geography