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Taylor Valley,
Antarctica
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Research at Portland State University |
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| PSU Faculty and Staff |
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Departments:
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Dr.
Andrew G. Fountain |
Departments of Geology and Geography |
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Dr.
Christina Hulbe |
Department of Geology |
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Dr. Olga Sergienko |
Department of Geology |
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David
C. Percy |
Department of Geology |
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Hassan
Basagic |
Department
of Geology |
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Kristina
Thorneycroft |
Department of Geography |
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Adam
Campbell |
Department
of Geology |
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Michael Hekkers |
Department of Geography |
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Matt
Hoffman |
Department of Geology |
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Robert Schlicting |
Cleveland High School, Portland, Oregon |
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Frank
D. Granshaw |
Portland Community
College and Artemis Science, Portland, Oregon |
Much of what we do is related to climate change in some way.
For an excellent basic summary of climate change issues check out the
booklet from the National Academy of Sciences: LowRes or HighRes.
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Glacier Change of the American
West
GIS database of Glaciers and Glacier Change in the Contiguous 48 States
We are evaluating the glacier change in the American West since the
early scientific
explorations in the late 1800s. We are interested in the
spatial and temporal variations
in the change and the climatic processes that cause the
change. An initial part of this
effort was to locate all the glaciers and permanent snowfields in the
West, then
construct a photographic library depicting glacier extent over time.
Project web site: Glaciers
Online
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Press
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| Jul 2008 |
USA Today |
Glaciers on California's Mt.
Shasta keep growing |
Article
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| May 2007 |
Reno Gazette |
High and dry |
Article |
| Mar 2006 |
Oregonian |
Mount Hood meltdown |
Article
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Antarctica: McMurdo Dry
Valleys Long Term Ecological Research Project
We study the mass and energy balance of the glaciers in Taylor Valley,
Antarctica.
Glacier melt is the primary source of water to the ephemeral streams
and ice-covered
lakes in the valley and as such are critical to the functioning of the
terrestrial
ecosystem in this polar desert. We maintain a program of
glacier mass balance
measurements and a network of meteorological stations.
Project web site: www.mcmlter.org |
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Notes from
the field
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Cryoconite Hole experiment:
Formation of a cryoconite |
MOVIE! |
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Glen Liston slideshow of his visit
in January 2005 (pdf format) |
Slide
show |
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Life style notes from the field
team: Antarctica |
1999-2000, 2000-2001 |
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Canada Glacier Photos in Taylor
Valley, Antarctica |
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Photographic panoramas from each
weather station! |
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Learning about Glaciers
Learn
more about glaciers from
our educational components that include glacier simulations on glacier
flow, glacier change, and how glaciers respond to climate
change.
Also, visit the education websites on glacier change for Mount Rainer
National Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, and the Upper Skagit River
Basin.
Project website: Learning
about Glaciers |
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Past Projects
| Outburst Flood
of a Glacier-dammed Lake, Kennicott Glacier, Alaska |
Project
web page |
| The
Geometry and Hydraulics of Englacial Conduits, Storglaciären,
northern Sweden |
Project web page |
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In Progress
| Kristina Thorneycroft |
Glacier change of North Cascades,
WA |
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| Adam Campbell |
Modeing tidewater glacier retreat
as a possible mechanism for behavior of Crane Glacier,
Antarctica |
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| Michael Hekkers |
Climate modeling of the glaciers
on Mt. Rainier, WA |
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| Matt Hoffman |
Melting
of the glaciers in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. |
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| Jon Ebnet |
Glacier melt modeling |
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Completed
| Peter Sniffen |
2008 |
Dry Calving at the Terminus of a
Polar Glacier, Taylor Glaciers, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica |
Web |
Thesis |
Journal |
| Hassan Basagic |
2008 |
Quantifying Twentieth Century
Glacier Change in the Sierra Nevada,
California |
Web |
Thesis |
Journal |
| Jan Dougall |
2007 |
Downstream effects of glaciers on
stream water quality |
Web |
Thesis |
Journal |
| Keith Jackson |
2007 |
The mass wastage and flow of Eliot
Glacier, Mt. Hood, Oregon. |
Web |
Thesis |
Journal |
| Christine
LeDoux |
2007 |
A boundary element model for
fracture propagation in the Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica. |
Web |
Thesis |
Journal |
| Hiram
Henry |
2006 |
A study of the role of firn in the
melt season hydrology of temperate glaciers |
Web |
Thesis |
Journal |
| Amy Ebnet |
2005 |
A temperature-index model of melt
water in Taylor Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. |
Web |
Thesis |
Journal |
| Shaun
Marcott |
2005 |
A
Tale of Three Sisters: Reconstructing the Holocene
Glacial History and Paleoclimate Record at Three Sisters Volcanoes,
Oregon. |
Web |
Thesis |
Journal |
| Robin
Johnston |
2004 |
Channel
Morphology and Surface Energy Balance on Taylor Glacier, Taylor
Valley, Antarctica |
Web |
Thesis |
Journal |
| Thomas
Nylen |
2004 |
Spatial
and Temporal Variations of Glaciers on Mount Rainier between 1913 and
1994 |
Web |
Thesis |
Journal |
| Sara
Frödin |
2003 |
The Geometry and Hydraulics of
Englacial Conduits,
Storglaciären, northern Sweden (non-thesis project) |
Web |
Thesis |
Journal |
| Don Lindsay |
2003 |
Hydrology of an Outburst Floods at
Kennicott Glacier, Alaska |
Web |
Thesis |
Journal |
| Michele Cunico |
2003 |
The Mechanical Response of the Ice
Dam to the Outburst Floods at Kennicott Glacier, Alaska. |
Web |
Thesis |
Journal |
| Frank
Granshaw |
2002 |
Glacier
Change in the North Cascade National Park
Complex, Washington USA, 1958 to 1998 |
Web |
Thesis |
Journal |
| Patrick
Bardel |
2001 |
Mapping
Polar Glaciers Using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) |
Web |
Thesis |
Journal
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| Jeremy Mennis |
1997 |
GIS Applications to Glaciology:
Construction of the Mount Rainier Glacier Database |
Web |
Thesis |
Journal |
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