GLACIERS!
Earth Science 280 - 1 cr
Fall, 1999
Professor William Locke
Traphagen Hall, Room 223
994-6918
wlocke@montana.edu
Office Hours: WF 9-12
Textbook (recommended): M. Hambrey and J. Alean, Glaciers, Cambridge University Press

General Course Summary:

This course is an enrichment course, in which I get to share my strongest professional interest, a vocation and an avocation which brought me to Montana, and you get to learn all you wanted to know about glaciers, but didn't know who to ask! If approved, the class will meet in Room 204 Traphagen from 11:00 to 11:50 AM on Thursdays.

Course Format:

The class will meet once a week to discuss subtopics of interest in a framework following the organization of the text. I will often use slides and overheads to expand on issues introduced in the text or in class discussion. Please feel free to bring your own media, as appropriate. The "grading" of this class will be based on class attendance and completion of a course project of your choosing. The project could entail (as examples):

• field mapping of a small glaciated area,
• compilation of published glacier-related research on a region of interest,
• modeling of a present or former glacier,
• design of a Glaciers! WWW page,
• short fiction,
• an artist's rendition of a local area during glaciation, or even
• a stand-up comedy routine featuring glaciers!

The projects will be due at the last class, and will be available for class inspection at that time (no postponements!). We will have an optional fieldtrip in late October/early November - probably to the Paradise Valley - to look at examples of mountain glaciation, outlet glaciers, and glacial stream landforms.

Web-mounted Projects from last time

• Amber's Fullglacial Icosahedron Globe!
• Kerri's Glacier Page!