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University of Washington Winter, 2021 |
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LECTURES
See the Syllabus for a tentative list of topics,
which may be modified as we go.
Lecture slides are posted on the right sidebar.
Lecture slides are posted on the right sidebar.
Week 1 Notes
Jan. 04-08:
- World tour of ice
- Introduction to glacier mass balance and flow.
- Lecture slides will be posted at right.
Week 2 Notes
Jan. 11-15:
- Earth's climate
- Energy balance and ELA
- Cold Glaciers and Temperate Glaciers
- Why are the glaciers where we find them?
Week 3 Notes
Jan. 18-22:
- Peer review in science.
- Cold Glaciers and Temperate Glaciers
- High cost of journals
- Cheating in science?
Week 4 Notes
Jan. 25-29:
- Scientific misconduct
- Balance as Bias
- Open Access Publishing - Promise and Perils
- Think Tanks - Then and Now
- Literature searches
Week 5 Notes
Feb 01-05
- Ice-Age World
- First Mid-term Quiz
- Glacier motion by internal deformation
- Glacier motion by sliding
Week 6 Notes
Feb 08-12
- More glacier motion by sliding
- historic Blue Glacier video
- kinematic and dynamic perspectives
Week 7 Notes
Feb 15-19
- Presidents' Day
- More Ice Cores and climate proxies
- Ocean-sediment cores
- Glacier length change in response to abrupt climate changes
Week 8 Notes
Feb 22-26
- Time scale for a glacier to respond to climate changes
- Read Oerlemans, 1994. Global Warming inferred from Glacier Retreat. (see READING tab)
- Glaciers vs thermometers to measure global warmimg
Week 9 Notes
Mar01 - Mar 03
- Glacier Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs)
- Second Mid-term Quiz
- Group Project planning time
Week 10 Notes
March 08-12
- Glacier Surges
- Marine Ice-Sheet Instability (MISI)
- Ice in our future? Read Frozen Earth, Chapter 12.
Feb 15 Presidents' Day
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Send mail to: edw@uw.edu
Last modified: 03/08/2021 01:29:19 PM
Last modified: 03/08/2021 01:29:19 PM