Jan. 07-11:

• World tour of ice
• Introduction to glacier mass balance and flow.

Jan. 14-18:

• Maritime and Polar Glaciers
• Earth's climate
• Energy balance and ELA
• Cold Glaciers and Temperate Glaciers

Jan. 21-25

• Temperature and Permafrost
• Glacier Flow from kinematic and dynamic perspectives
• flow at Blue Glacier
• crevasses

Jan. 28-Feb. 01

• sliding and water in glaciers
• Outburst floods
• Ice-age world.

Feb 04-08

• First Mid-term Quiz
• Scientific wriiting and Peer review
• Library field trip - finding books and journals using the UW catalog, and articles using Georef and Web of Science databases

Feb 11-15

• Bias in reporting
• Cheating in science
• Glacier response to climate

Feb 18-22
February 18 - President's Day holiday

• Read Oerlemans, 1994. Global Warming inferred from Glacier Retreat.

Feb 25-29

• Glaciers vs thermometers to measure global warmimg
• Ice Cores and paleoclimate
• Ice-Age Cycles

Mar 03-07

• IPCC
• Second Mid-term Quiz
• Glaciers and sea level Read Meier Small glaciers and sea level

Mar 10-14

• Hansen - Defusing the global warming time bomb
• Lake Vostok - life beneath the ice?