Girls on Ice: A unique, free mountaineering adventure and wilderness science education program for young women

Publishing Information
Release Date: 
2013-07-01
Teaser Title: 
Girls on Ice 2013
Teaser Text: 
Fresh from the Gulkana Glacier, young women will present findings.

The young researchers of the 2013 Girls on Ice program will give presentations on their findings after spending a week on Gulkana Glacier, Monday, July 1, 5:30-6:15 p.m., Elvey Auditorium.Each year two teams of nine teen girls and three instructors spend 11 days exploring and learning about mountain glaciers and the alpine landscape through scientific field studies with professional glaciologists, ecologists, artists and mountaineers. One team explores Mount Baker, an ice-covered volcano in the Washington's Northern Cascades, and one team explored Gulkana Glaciar. Congratulations to the 2013 expedition teams.   

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Snow Ice Permafrost
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