Associate Professor / Associate Dean, Student Experience
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Email: kenm@athabascau.ca
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I hold a Ph.D. in Quaternary geology from the Free University of Brussels and have a special interest in the analysis of Earth surface processes. My research work has focused on the reconstruction of environmental changes that have occurred over the last ca. 100 000 years and the application of luminescence dating techniques has constituted a central theme of these studies. I have carried out field work in southern Africa, Europe, East Asia and North America and this has exposed me to a broad range of environments. My research work at present examines near-surface geological processes on landscapes of western Canada that emerged after the last glacial period, particularly as it relates to the timing and driving factors of those processes.
Postdoctoral Research Associate (1999-2000)- Earth and Environmental Sciences - University of Illinois at Chicago
PhD (1998) - Quaternary Geology - Free University of Brussels
MSc (1994) - Quaternary Engineering Geology - Free University of Brussels
Professional affiliations
Geological Association of Canada - Member
American Geophysical Union - Member
Munyikwa, K., Kinnaird, T, Sanderson D.C.W. (2021) The potential of portable OSL readers in geomorphological investigations: a review. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 46, 131-150.
Munyikwa, K., Gilliland, K., Plumb, E., Gibson, T. (2020) Investigating sediment mixing at an archaeological site on the northern Plains using a portable optically stimulated reader. Journal of Archaeological Research: Reports 33(2020) 102508
Munyikwa, K., Lindemann R., Wondrasek, R. Kinnaird, T, Sanderson, D. (2019) Temporal constraints for Holocene geomorphic evolution at an archaeological site near Hardisty, east-central Alberta: hunter-gatherer interactions with the landscape on the northern Plains. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 43, 30-73.
Munyikwa, K., Rittenour T., Feathers J. (2017) Temporal constraints for the Late Wisconsinan Deglaciation of western Canada using eolian dune luminescence chronologies from Alberta. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 470, 147-165.
Munyikwa, K., Brown S. (2014) Rapid equivalent dose estimation for eolian dune sands using a portable OSL reader and polymineralic standardized luminescence growth curves: expedited sample screening for OSL dating. Quaternary Geochronology 22, 116-125.
Munyikwa, K., Gilliland K., Mann, E., Gibson T., Rittenour T., Grekul, C., Blaikie K. (2012) Late Holocene temporal constraints for human occupation levels at the Bodo Archaeological Locality, SE Alberta, Canada using radiocarbon and luminescence chronologies. Plains Anthropologist 59 (230), 109-143.
Munyikwa, K., Brown S., Kitabwalla, Z. (2012) Delineating stratigraphic breaks at the bases of postglacial eolian dunes in central Alberta, Canada using a portable OSL reader. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 37, 1603 -1614.
Munyikwa, K., Feathers, J., Rittenour, T., Shrimpton, H. (2011a) Constraining the Late Wisconsinan retreat of the Laurentide Ice Sheet from western Canada using luminescence ages from postglacial eolian dunes. Quaternary Geochronology 6, 407-422.
Munyikwa, K., Telfer, M., Baker I., Knight, C. (2011b) Core drilling of Quaternary sediments for luminescence dating using the Dormer Drillmite.TM Ancient TL 29, 15-22.