Glacial Periglacial Class Project:

The goal of the project is to identify all the known glacier information in your area.  The product for each area will be derived from the information in the bibliography:

  1. Short summary summarizing the physiographic and climatic characteristics of the region.
  1. Short summary describing the spatial characteristics of the glaciers (area, elevations, orientation) and any interesting or notable facts (e.g. Grasshopper Glacier in Montana derives its name from all the grasshoppers found frozen in the ice).
  1. A summary about the glacial history of the area and historic glacier change.
  1. Parts 1-3 above will be supported by figures and photos where available, and a map showing the locations of the glaciers (or approximate locations), relative to local topography.
  1. The report will be referenced according to scientific style (see class web page).
  1. The entire bibliography of referenced and non-referenced reports will follow.
The project will be written up in a report format (see class web page), and a web page will be made of each report.  You can use Netscape Composer (see a netscape web page) or Microsoft Frontpage (see the software in the computer room in Cramer 322).  For the final draft, turn in 1) hard copy of the report; 2) digital copy of the report readable by MS WORD for PC’s; 3) digital copy of the web page.

I strongly recommend that when writing up the results, everybody contribute sections and have one person be the editor-contributor.  Then have others in your group edit the final product.  It should have several drafts before submission.

Also, you should talk with the other groups, share ideas and approaches.  The grade of the final product is not based on a relative score  (some do well because others do poorly) but instead it is based on effort and product.

Schedule:

            Nov 6:    Report outline with references
            Nov 13:  First draft of report
            Nov 20:  First draft of web page
            Nov 27:  Final drafts of report and web page
            Nov 29:  Presentations:  Oral, 20 minutes per group.

Report Guidelines

A valuable web site: http://geonames.usgs.gov/gnishome.html

Scroll down to and click on: "United States and Territories"

Enter the state name, and in Feature Type: enter glacier.  Then press "send query".

I recommend you explore this site and the links to some of the individual glaciers, not only maps and photos may be available, but also "FTP" to getting more place names.  The main site seems to provide a provide a partial list.

Oregon:  pdf file: Benson Glacier