Associate Professor of Geography
Education
- Ph.D., University of Georgia
- M.S., University of North Dakota
- B.A., Bemidji State University
Biography
Joe Nicholas’s teaching and research interests include Alpine Periglacial Geomorphology, Quaternary Environments, Climatology, and Biogeography. His principal research area has been the La Sal Mountains of southeastern Utah, where he has studied rock glaciers and other talus landforms for clues to Holocene climate change.
GEOG 111 Landform Processes w/ Lab
GEOG 326 Glacial Processes and Landscapes
Geiger, S. T.. J. M. Daniels, S. N. Miller, and J. W. Nicholas. 2014. Influence of rock glaciers on stream hydrology in the La Sal Mountains, Utah. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 46(3):645-658.
Nicholas, J. W. and J. E. Garcia. 1997. Origin of a fossil rock glacier: La Sal Mountains, Utah. Physical Geography 18(2):160-175.
Nicholas, J. W. and D. R. Butler. 1996. Application of relative-age dating techniques on rock glaciers of
the La Sal Mountains, Utah: An interpretation of Holocene paleoclimates. Geografiska Annaler 78A(1):1-18.
Nicholas, J. W. 1994. Fabric analysis of rock glacier debris mantles, La Sal Mountains, Utah. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 5(1):53-66.
Nicholas, J. W. 1992. Talus landforms as indicators of climate: Preliminary results of field investigations on rock glaciers. In Boletin de la Sociedad Geografica de Lima: Segundo Congreso Internacional de Geografia de las Americas, 105:479-488
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