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GEOS 120: Glaciers, Earthquakes, Volcanoes (Co-taught)

Course Description of glacier part:
Alaska is one of the most glacierized areas in the world outside Greenland and Antarctica. The course provides a descriptive overview of what glaciers are, their significance for water resources, global sea-level and climate, how they move, grow or retreat, how they have fluctuated in the recent and geological history of the Earth, what they can tell us about former climates and what topical issues are in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska. The class is for non-science majors and does not involve any math.
Taught each semester (lectures Tuesdays and Thursdays, labs)

GEOS 637: Glaciers

Course Description
The course deals with present-day glaciers and ice sheets including the mechanisms responsible for their existence, motion and variations, and the paleoclimate information they contain. The course focuses on the processes related to glacier mass balance, glacier meteorology, energy exchange at the glacier surface, glacier-climate interactions, and the response of glaciers to climate change, but also includes topics such as glacier hydrology, ice dynamics, and glacier thermodynamics.
Instructional methods: lectures, student presentations, literature seminars
Taught every second fall (next time 2009)
Prerequisite: Calculus math

AG-325 Glaciology at UNIS, Svalbard

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PhD students (main advisor for)

• Mattias de Woul (Stockholm University): Response of glaciers to climate change - mass balance sensitivities, sea-level and runoff (2008) pdf
• Valentina Radic (UAF): Modelling sea-level rise from melting glaciers (2008) pdf

Ongoing:

• Martial Duguay (Stockholm University): Effect of climate change on glacier melt and water resources in La Paz, Bolivia