Blue Glacier, Mt Olympus, in September 1995.

In this course you will learn about a broad range of questions involving ice in the environment, and its role in global change. Topics include: formation, deposition and metamorphism of snow; glacier flow; glaciers and landscape; 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 group of UW faculty, all with expertise in broadly diverse areas in glaciology.