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Questions on Assigned Reading to be answered and turned in at class before lecture starts.

Reading the assigned materials before each class will help you to understand the concepts in lectures. Please answer the assigned short questions based on the reading for each lecture, and turn in your responses (typically about one paragraph or a few bullet-points) to your TA at the start of each class.

We will not assign a numerical grade to each of your submissions. Each submission will be assigned a C/NC grade. To get a credit (C), we expect your submissions to reflect a reasonable perusal of the assigned reading materials (after all, we do have some standards). The number of submission credits will contribute toward your class-participation grade. Except in special circumstances, we will not accept submissions after the lecture begins. The point is to do this ahead of the class, after all.

Week 2 - Monday, 30 September, 2019.
Reading Questions - Natural Occurrences of Ice
Reading 1 - Marshall: Chapter 1
Reading 2 - Bamber and Kwok. Mass Balance of the Cryosphere: Observations and Modeling of Contemporary and Future Changes (59-77).
Reading 3 - Untersteiner. The Cryosphere.
Due: Monday, Sep. 30, 2019, at start of class.

Week 2 - Wednesday, 2 October, 2019.
Reading Questions - Physical Properties of Ice
Reading 1 - Marshall: Chapter 2
Reading 2 - Runnels 1966: Scientific American
Due: Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, at start of class.

Week 3 - Monday, 7 October, 2019.
Reading Questions - Accumulation I
Reading 1 - McClung: The Avalanche Handbook (21-31, 43-52)
Reading 2 - Marshall: Chapter 4 (65-72)
Due: Monday, Oct. 7, 2019, at start of class.

Week 3 - Wednesday, 9 October, 2019.
Reading Questions - Accumulation II
Reading 1 - McClung: The Avalanche Handbook (52-72)
Reading 2 - Marshall: Chapter 4 (72-89)
Due: Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019, at start of class.

Week 4 - Monday
Reading Questions - Ablation
Reading 1 - Cuffey and Paterson: The Physics of Glaciers (Ch. 5)
Due: Monday, Oct. 14, 2019, at start of class.

Week 4 - Wednesday
Reading Questions - Ice Dynamics I: Ice Deformation
Reading 1 - Marshall: Chapter 6
Due: Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, at start of class.

Week 5 - Monday
Reading Questions - Ice Dynamics II: Glacier Sliding and Hydrology
Reading 1 - Drewry: Glacier Geological Processes (pp. 10-14, 20-32)
Due: Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, at start of class.

Week 5 - Wednesday
Reading Questions - Ice Dynamics III: Temperature and Heat Flow in Glaciers and Ice Sheets
Reading 1 - Cuffey and Paterson: The Physics of Glaciers (Ch. 9.5-9.8)
Reading 2 - Dahl-Jensen et al. Past Temperatures Directly from the Greenland Ice Sheet
Due: Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, at start of class.

Week 6 - Monday
Reading Questions - Glacier Variations and Climate
Reading 1 - Harper 1993: Arctic and Alpine Research
Reading 2 - Roe & O'Neal 2009: Journal of Glaciology
Reading 3 - Oerlemans 2005: Science
Reading 4 - Roe et al. 2016: Nature Geoscience
Due: Monday, Oct. 28, 2019, at start of class.

Week 6 - Wednesday
Reading Questions - Continental-Scale Glaciations: Ice Sheets, Ice Streams, Ice Shelves
Reading 1 - WAIS Changes
Reading 2 - Ocean Forcing of Ice Sheet Retreat
Due: Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, at start of class.

Week 7 - Monday
Reading Questions - Glacier Instabilities
Reading 1 - Kamb et al. 1985: Variegated Glacier Surge
Reading 2 - Joughin & Alley 2011: West Antarctic Ice Sheet Stability
Reading 3 (optional) - Schoof 2007: Marine Ice Sheet Instability
Due: Monday, Nov. 4, 2019, at start of class.

Week 7 - Wednesday
Reading Questions - Recent Changes in the Cryosphere
Reading 1 - IPCC: Recent Observations of the Cryosphere
Due: Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019, at start of class.

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