ESS 203, WTR 2010
Glaciers and Global Change

Week 1 Notes

Jan. 05-09:

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

Week 2 Notes

Jan. 12-16:

  • Maritime and Polar Glaciers
  • Earth's climate
  • Energy balance and ELA
  • Cold Glaciers and Temperate Glaciers
  • Permafrost
  • Why are the glaciers where we find them?

Week 3 Notes

Jan. 19-23

  • Glacier Flow from kinematic and dynamic perspectives
  • flow at Blue Glacier
  • crevasses
  • sliding glaciers

Week 4 Notes

Jan. 26-30

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

Week 5 Notes

Feb 02-06

  • High cost of journals
  • Balance in reporting
  • Cheating in science?
  • First Mid-term Quiz
  • Library field trip - finding books and journals using the UW catalog, and articles using Georef and Web of Science databases. Meet in Suzzallo Map/Special Collections classroom in basement of Suzzallo Library. Here are directions and map.

Week 6 Notes

.Feb 11-15

  • Cheating in science
  • (Mis)use of scientific results
  • Glacier response to climate

Week 7 Notes

Feb 16-20
February 16 - President's Day holiday

  • glacier length changes in response to climate changes
  • amount of change
  • time required to adjust


Week 8 Notes

Feb 23-27


Week 9 Notes

Mar 02-06


Week 10 Notes

Mar 09-13


Jan 05 Glaciers top to bottom
Jan 07 Glacier Mass budget
Jan 09 About Glaciers
Jan 12 Glacier types. Energy balance.
Jan 14 Temperatures on Earth
Jan 16 Permafrost etc
Jan 21 Ice flow
Jan 23 Viscous flow, Brittle crevasses
Jan 26 Water and floods
Jan 28 Ice-Age World
Jan 30 Peer Review
Feb 02 Balance in reporting; cheating
Feb 04 Quiz #1
Feb 06 Library field trip
Feb 09 Cheating in science
Feb 11 Portrayal of science. Glacier changes
Feb 13 How much do glaciers change?
Feb 18 How fast do glaciers adjust?
Feb 20 Oerlemans on global warming
Feb 23 Ice Cores
Feb 25 Ice Cores, gas bubbles, ocean cores
Feb 27 Little Dead Bugs , Oerlemans thermometers, Meier sealevel
Mar 02 Small glaciers and sea level
Mar 04 - Quiz 2
Mar 06 Hansen Anthropogenic Interference
Mar 09 Pfeffer Ice sheets and Sea Level
Mar 11 Lake Vostok
Mar 13 Vostok, Europa, Future Ice