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ESS 203, WTR 2011
Glaciers and Global Change Reading Assignments
Reading assignments will be described below, and posted on the bar to the right. I will expect you to read these materials before coming to the corresponding class, so that you will be able to join in discussions about the content. . January 03
By next Monday, please read
Glaciers by Robert Sharp.
January 29
This article by
Conway et al. is the one that we analyzed in class to see the component parts
of a peer-reviewed paper.
February 09
In 2005, the Competitive Enterprise Institute aired TV ads based on an "interpretation" of peer-reviewed science. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq_Bj-av3g0&NR=1 On the right sidebar are links to two peer-reviewed papers that appeared in the ad: Johannessen, Ola M.,
Kirill Khvorostovsky, Martin W. Miles, Leonid P.Bobylev. (2005). Recent
Ice-Sheet Growth in the Interior of Davis, Curt H., Yonghong Li, Joseph R. McConnell, Markus M. Frey, Edward Hanna. (2005). Snowfall-Driven Growth in East Antarctic Ice Sheet Mitigates Recent Sea-Level Rise. Science 308(5730), 1898-1901. The homework due Feb 10 is based on this ad and these papers. February 09
Please read the paper Parfit paper Floods that Carved the West before your Lab next week. This paper describes how eastern Washington State was flooded many times when a glacier dam burst during the last Ice Age. Also, please read Chapter 6, Defrosting Earth, in the text Frozen Earth.
February 11
Is it possible to estimate how fast Earth has been warming by measuring the rate of retreat of glaciers? hmmm ... maybe ... ? For class discussions on Monday February 14, please read Oerlemans paper and bring your copy to class. Oerlemans, J. 1994. Quantifying Global Warming from the Retreat of Glaciers Science 264, 243-245 Writing assignment is to answer our standard 3 questions:
February 16
This week we will investigate ice cores and what they teach us about climate in the past.
For Monday (Feb 23), please read
U.S. Ice Core Science: Recommendations for the Future. This document was written by a group of ice-core scientists called the Ice Core Working Group.
The ICWG is funded by the National Science Foundation to meet annually
to discuss issues related to ice-core projects, and to compile the vision and
aspirations within the scientific community about where the science should be
heading. This vision is now being realized by
a deep ice core in West Antarctica.
February 28
Please read the peer-reviewed 2004 Nature paper by Kapitsa et al.,
A large deep freshwater lake beneath ice of central East Antarctica,
and the accompanying
commentaries by Ellis-Evans and Bentley from the same issue.
March 04
For Monday, please read the paper by James Hansen,
Hansen, J. March 2004. Defusing the Global Warming Time Bomb. Scientific American, pp. 68-77. Hansen is a NASA climate scientist who has repeatedly tried to warn politicians and community leaders about the potential dangers of global warming. As a result, he has been painted as an alarmist by climate-change deniers. What do you think?
March 07
Please read the 2008 paper Tad Pfeffer et al., 2008. Kinematic Constraints on Glacier Contributions to 21st-Century Sea-Level Rise. Science 321, 1340-1343. . The paper as printed in the journal is only about 3 pages long; however, many journals now allow, and encourage authors to include additional Supplementary Material in the on-line version. I have included both the formal paper and the supporting material, although I expect our discussions will focus primarily on the formal paper.
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