Jan. 05-09:

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

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?

Jan. 19-23

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

Jan. 26-30

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

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.

.Feb 11-15

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

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

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

Feb 23-27

• Read Oerlemans, 1994. Global Warming inferred from Glacier Retreat.
• Glaciers vs thermometers to measure global warmimg
• Ice Cores, ocean sediment cores, and paleoclimate

Mar 02-06

• Glaciers and sea level - Read Meier Small glaciers and sea level
• Second Mid-term Quiz
• Dangerous climate interference - read Hansen Defusing the Global Warming Time Bomb in Scientific American

Mar 09-13

• Is Hansen a pessimist?  Read Pfeffer et al. (2008) - Kinematic constraints on glacier contributions to 21st C sea level rise.
• Lake Vostok - life deep beneath the ice? Read Kapitsa et al., Large deep freshwater lake beneath the Antarctic ice sheet.