ESS203: Glaciers and Global Change
University of Washington
Winter, 2021

Instructor Team:
Lectures, Labs
    Ed Waddington - Please call me Ed
    Professor, Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences
    Office: remote
    Messages: 206 543-4585 email: edw at uw.edu
Labs
    Seth Williams
    Graduate Student, Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences
    Office: remote
    email: semw at uw.edu
Term projects, Labs, Lectures
    Jessica Badgeley
    Graduate Student, Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences
    Office: remote
    email: badgeley at uw.edu


Meeting Times and Locations

Lectures: 1:30-2:20 MWF,  Zoom

Lab (section AA): 9:30-12:20 Tues,  Zoom
Lab (section AB): 9:30-12:20 Thurs,   Zoom


Glaciers are shrinking in Washington State

        

South Cascade Glacier, in North Cascades National Park, shrank tremendously from 1928 to 2010  What's going on here?    [images from NSIDC]


Ice cliff, Barne Glacier, Antarctica

In the polar regions, many glaciers end in the ocean. This is Barne Glacier, on Ross Island in Antarctica. Could these glaciers be threatened by rising ocean temperatures? By rising sea level?
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