Crystal HuscroftAssociate Teaching Professor | Faculty of Arts
Email: chuscroft@tru.ca
Phone: 250-377-6132
Interests
Inspiring students and giving them the tools to explore how our Earth system operates so that they can make a positive difference in the world.
Research Interests
Augmented reality field trips, story maps, problem-based learning, field learning, field note-taking
skills and field journals.
Glacial history reconstructions
Surficial geology mapping
Climate change and permafrost-related landslide processes
Volcanic stratigraphy
Terrain mapping
Education
B.Sc. (Comb. Hons.) Physical Geography and Geology, University of British Columbia.
M.Sc. Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Publications
Jackson LE Jr., Huscroft CA, 2023. Eruptive History of the Fort Selkirk Area, Central Yukon. Canadian
Journal of Earth Sciences. 60(9): 1265-1282.
Huscroft, C., 2023, Supporting first-year research experiences and external conference presentations,
Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers Annual General Meeting. University of the
Fraser Valley, March 10-11, 2023.
Huscroft, C., 2022, Student initiation: An approach to developing norms, skills, and experience to
fulfill the social role and responsibilities of scientifically literate citizens in a first-year
geoscience course for majors and non-majors. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting. October
10-12, 2022.
MacKinnon S, Welch C, Burles K, Huscroft C., Hewitt N, Krezoski G, Perkins A, Tang L, Day T, Nichol C,
Redding T, Lutz A, Saunders I, de Scally, F, 2021. Laboratory Manual for Introduction to Physical
Geography, 2nd Edition. BC Campus.
Huscroft, C.A., Elliot, B.T. and Lipovsky, P.S., 2016. Permafrost Periglacial Landform Atlas, Yukon
Geological Survey. Last updated June 2016.
Turner, D.G., Green, A.G., Brown, L.T. and Huscroft, C.A., 2016. Exploring the benefits and best
practices of emerging student-led, technology-assisted field trips. Geological Association of
Canada/Mineralogical Association of Canada Annual General Meeting. June 1-3. Whitehorse, Yukon.
Jackson LE Jr., Nelson FE, Huscroft CA, Villeneuve M, Barendregt RW, Storer JE, Ward BC. 2012. Pliocene
and Pleistocene volcanic interaction with Cordilleran ice sheets, damming of the Yukon River and
vertebrate Palaeontology, Fort Selkirk Volcanic Group, west-central Yukon, Canada. Quaternary
International 260: 3-20.
Plouffe A, Bednarski J M, Huscroft CA, Anderson RG, McCuaig SJ. 2011. Late Wisconsinan glacial history
in the Bonaparte Lake map area, south central British Columbia: implications for glacial transport and
mineral exploration. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 48: 1091-1111.
Huscroft, C A., 2009. Surficial geology, Mahood Lake, British Columbia; Geological Survey of Canada,
Open File 6172; 1 sheet
Utting, D J; Huscroft, C A. 2008. Surficial geology, Conn Lake (northwest), Baffin Island, Nunavut;
Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5612; 1 sheet
Lipovsky, P., Huscroft, C., Lewkowicz, A. and Etzelmueller, 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
Turner, R J W; Anderson, R G; Franklin, R; Cathro, M; Madu, B; Huscroft, C; Frey, E; Favrholdt, K. 2008.
GeoTour guide for Kamloops, British Columbia; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5810; 36 pages
Lipovsky PS, McKenna K, Huscroft CA. 2005. Surficial geology of Watson Lake area (NTS 105A/2), Yukon.
Yukon Geological Survey Open File Report 2005-7, 1:50,000, 1 sheet.
Huscroft, C.A., Ward, B.C., Jackson, .L.E. Jr., & Tarnocai, C.E. 2006. Investigation of high-level
glaciofluvial terraces and re-evaluation of the established soil stratigraphy for Early and Middle
Pleistocene surfaces, Yukon, Canada. Boreas. 35(1): 96-106 (Taylor & Francis)
Huscroft, C.A. and Lipovsky, P.S. 2005. Climate change and landslides in the Alaska Highway Corridor,
Yukon. Meridian. Spring 2005:14-18
Huscroft , C.A. , Ward, B.C. , Barendregt, R.W., Jackson , L.E., Jr. and Opdyke , N.D. (2004)
Pleistocene volcanic damming of Yukon River, and age of the Reid glaciation, west central Yukon Canadian
Journal of Earth Science. 41(2):151-164
Huscroft, C.A., Lipovsky, P.S. (2004) A regional characterisation of landslide processes along the
Alaska Highway Corridor, O.F. 2004-18, 65p. (Yukon Geological Survey)
Huscroft C. 2002. Surficial geology, Coffee Creek, Yukon Territory. Geological Survey of Canada Open
File Report 4344, 1:50,000, 1 sheet.
Employment History
2018-2019: Interim Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts
2004-present: Faculty, Thompson Rivers University
2002-2004: Surficial Geologist, Yukon Geological Survey
2003-2004: Part-time Instructor, Yukon College
2001: Project Geologist, DeBeers Group Canada
2000-2001: Teaching Assistant, Simon Fraser University
1999: Geological Intern, Geological Survey of Canada
1998: Senior Field Assistant, Geological Survey of Canada
1997: Field Assistant, Geological Survey of Canada
1996: Research Assistant, Geological Survey of Canada
1994: Assistant Environmental Planner, Rideau Valley Conservation Authority
Courses Taught
GEOG 4990, Environmental Geoscience Field School
GEOG 3700, Geography Field Course, Clearwater-Wells Gray Park
GEOG 3700, Geography Field Course, Icefields Parkway
GEOG 3990, Sustainability in Action
GEOG 3990, People and a Planet on Fire
GEOG 3080, Introduction to Geomorphology
GEOG 2020, Meteorology, Climatology, and Environmental Change
GEOG 1000, Planet Earth: Introduction to Earth System Science
GEOG 1220, Climatology and Biogeography
GEOG 3700, Field Course in Geography
GEOG 4850, Directed Studies
SERV 3000, Service Learning
GEOG 101, Climatology (lecture only)
GEOG 102, Geomorphology (lecture only)
EASC 100, Geology of Vancouver (designed lab component)
GEOG 253, Air Photo Interpretation (lab only)
EASC 206, Field Geology I (lab only)
EASC 306, Field Geology II (lab only)
EASC 303, Environmental Geoscience (lab only)
EASC 411, Applied Environmental Geoscience (lab only)
Professional Affiliations
National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Canadian Geomorphological Research Group
