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Panya S. Lipovsky

Surficial Geologist


Panya is currently working on a variety of surficial geology projects, including a Yukon-wide digital surficial geology compilation; an Alaska Highway borehole database compilation; and a variety of site-specific studies that investigate the distribution, nature and impacts of landslides and permafrost-related terrain hazards. She is also coordinating a permafrost outreach program to monitor permafrost conditions at a number of Yukon schools in collaboration with the University of Alaska Fairbanks (www.uaf.edu/permafrost).
Other projects she's been involved in over the last several years at the YGS include coordinating a two-day field trip for the Rapid Landscape Change and Human Response Conference (held in Whitehorse in June 2005); biophysical mapping near Watson Lake; characterizing landslides in the Alaska Highway corridor; providing GIS support for targeted geoscience mapping projects in the Glenlyon and Finlayson Lake regions; designing the YGS custom field database "GeoFIELD"; compiling Yukon placer activity maps and MINFILE maps; mapping water quality in active placer mining areas; placer MINFILE database research; and till sampling and surficial geology mapping in the Anvil district.
Panya received her B.Sc. in Physical Geography from the University of British Columbia where she studied Quaternary geology, geomorphology and bedrock geology. She also has a certificate for GIS and Desktop Mapping from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology.

(867) 667-8520
panya.lipovsky@gov.yk.ca


Selected Publications:


  • Lipovsky, P.S., Evans, S.G., Clague, J.J., Hopkinson, C., Couture, R., Bobrowsky, P., Ekström, G., Demuth, M.N., Delaney, K.B., Roberts, N.J., Clarke, G. and Schaeffer, A., 2008. The July 2007 rock and ice avalanches at Mount Steele, St. Elias Mountains, Yukon, Canada. Landslides, DOI: 10.1007/s10346-008-0133-4.
  • Lipovsky, P., Huscroft, C., Lewkowicz, A. and Etzelmüller, B., 2008.  The Role of Permafrost in the 2002 Ten Mile Creek Debris Torrent, Yukon, Canada. Ninth International Conference on Permafrost Extended Abstracts, edited by D.L. Kane and K.M. Hinkel.  Fairbanks, Alaska, June 29 – July 3, 2008, pp 189-190.
  • Lipovsky, P. and Huscroft, C., 2007. A reconnaissance inventory of permafrost-related landslides in the Pelly River watershed, central Yukon. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2006, D.S. Emond, L.L. Lewis and L.H. Weston (eds.), Yukon Geological Survey, p. 181-195.
  • Lipovsky, P.S., Coates, J., Lewkowicz, A.G. and Trochim, E., 2006. Active-layer detachments following the summer 2004 forest fires near Dawson City, Yukon. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2005, D.S. Emond, L.H. Weston, G.D. Bradshaw and L.L. Lewis (eds.), Yukon Geological Survey.
  • Lipovsky, P.S. and McKenna, K., 2005. Local-scale biophysical mapping for integrated resource management, Watson Lake area (NTS 105A/2), Yukon. Yukon Geological Survey, Open File 2005-6, report and CD-ROM, 74 p.
  • Lipovsky, P.S., McKenna, K. and Huscroft, C.A., 2005. Surficial geology of Watson Lake area (NTS 105A/2), Yukon (1: 50,000 scale). Yukon Geological Survey, Open File 2005-7.
  • McKenna, K. and Lipovsky, P.S., 2005. Biophysical map of Watson Lake area (NTS 105A/2), Yukon (1: 50 000 scale). Yukon Geological Survey, Open File 2005-8.
  • Lipovsky, P.S., 2005. Field trip guide. In: Rapid Landscape Change and Human Response in the Arctic and Subarctic, an Interdisciplinary Conference, Program, Abstracts and Field Guide; Whitehorse, YT, June 15-17, 2005, p. 43-101.
  • Huscroft, C.A., Lipovsky, P.S. and Bond, J.D., 2004a. A regional characterization of landslides in the Alaska Highway corridor, Yukon. Yukon Geological Survey, Open File 2004-18, 65 p., report and CD-ROM.
  • Huscroft, C.A., Lipovsky, P.S. and Bond, J.D., 2004b. Permafrost and landslide activity: Case studies from southwestern Yukon Territory. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2003, D.S. Emond and L.L. Lewis (eds.), Yukon Geological Survey, p. 107-119.
  • Lipovsky, P.S., Huscroft, C.A. and Lewkowicz, A.G., 2004. The Nines Creek ice and rock avalanche: an example of the impact of climate change on catastrophic geomorphic processes in the Kluane Ranges, Yukon Territory, Canada. American Geophysical Union 2004 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 13-17, 2004. Poster abstract C13B-0281 in: Eos Trans. AGU, 85(47).
  • Lipovsky, P.S., Colpron, M., Stronghill, G. and Pigage, L., 2003. GeoFIELD v. 2.2 - Data management and map production for the field geologist. Yukon Geological Survey, Open File 2003-8(D).
  • Colpron, M., Bond, J.D., Lipovsky, P.S., Gladwin, K., Gordey, S.P., Murphy, D.C., Nelson, J.L., Plouffe, A., Roots, C.F., and Abbott, J.G., 2003. Digital compilation of bedrock geology and till geochemistry, Glenlyon (105L) and eastern Carmacks (115I) map areas, Yukon Territory; Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Open File 2003-7(D) and Geological Survey of Canada Open File 1561.
  • Colpron, M., Murphy, D.C., Nelson, J.L., Roots, C.F., Gladwin, K., Gordey, S.P., Abbott, G. and Lipovsky, P.S., 2002. Preliminary geological map of Glenlyon (105L/1-7,11-14) and northeast Carmacks (115I/9,16) areas, Yukon Territory (1:125 000 scale). Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Open File 2002-9, also Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 1457.
  • Bond, J.D., Murphy, D.C., Colpron, M., Gordey, S.P., Plouffe, A., Roots, C.F., Lipovsky, P.S., Stronghill, G., and Abbott, J.G., 2002. Digital Compilation of Bedrock Geology and Till Geochemicstry, northern Finlayson Lake Map Area, Southeastern Yukon (105G), Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Open File 2002-7D, and GSC Open File 4243.
  • Lipovsky, P., Bond, J. and LeBarge, W., 2001. Yukon placer activity map. Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Open File 2001-34, Scale 1:1 000 000 scale.
  • Lipovsky, P., Bond, J. and LeBarge, W., 2001. Mayo area placer activity map, portions of NTS sheets 105M, 106D, 115P and 116A. Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Open File 2001-35, 1:250 000 scale.
  • Lipovsky, P., Bond, J. and LeBarge, W., 2001. Dawson area placer activity map, portions of NTS sheets 116B and C, and 115N and O. Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Open File 2001-36, Scale 1:250 000 scale.
  • Murphy, D.C., Colpron, M., Gordey, S.P., Roots, C.F., Abbott, G. and Lipovsky, P.S., 2001. Preliminary bedrock geological map of northern Finlayson Lake area (NTS 105G), Yukon Territory (1:100 000 scale). Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Open File 2001-33.
  •  Yukon MINFILE – Mineral Occurrence Maps, 2001. Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.
    Lipovsky, P.S. and Bond, J.D., 1999. Surficial geology and till geochemistry of Mount Mye (105K/6 E), Central Yukon. Exploration and Geological Services Division, Yukon Region, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Open File 1999-9, 1:25 000 scale.