Blue Glacier, Mt Olympus, in September 1995.

This course covers a broad range of geophysical problems involving ice in the environment, and its role in global change. Subjects include: formation, deposition and metamorphism of snow; glacier flow; behavior of ice sheets and interpretation of their chemistry and internal structure; growth and decay of sea ice and relation to climate; geomorphology of permafrost terrain; paleoclimate reconstruction from glacial geomorphology. The course is primarily descriptive, but stresses a physical understanding of underlying processes. It is taught by a number of faculty with expertise in specific areas in glaciology.