Jan. 03-07:

• World tour of ice
• Introduction to glacier mass balance and flow.
• Lecture slides will be posted at right.

Jan. 10-14:

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

Jan. 17-21

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

Jan. 24-28

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

Jan 31 - Feb 04

• High cost of journals
• Cheating in science?
• First Mid-term Quiz
• Library Field Trip .

Feb 07-11

• Scientific misconduct
• Balance as Bias
• Glacier length change in response to climate change

Feb 14-18

• Time to respond to climate changes
• Oerlemans inference of 20th C warming from glacier retreat.
• Read Oerlemans, 1994. Global Warming inferred from Glacier Retreat. (see READING tab)
• Ice cores and climate proxies
• Read Ice Core Working Group, 2003. U.S. Ice Core Science: Recommendations for the Future. (see READING tab)

Feb 21-25

• February 21 - President's Day holiday
• Ice Cores, ocean sediment cores, and paleoclimate

Feb 28 - Mar 04

• More on Oerlemans, 1994. Global Warming inferred from Glacier Retreat.
• Glaciers vs thermometers to measure global warmimg
• Second Mid-term Quiz
• Read Kapitsa et al. Great lake beneath 2 miles of ice
and the commentary by Ellis-Evans. (READING tab)

Mar 07-11

• Dangerous climate interference - read Hansen Defusing the Global Warming Time Bomb in Scientific American