Week 2:
How "hot" are glaciers? How do glaciers move?
Week 3:
Water in glaciers. Glacier surges.
Week 4:
Glaciers, ice sheets, ice shelves of the world.
Week 5:
How far do glaciers advance or retreat when climate changes?
Using glaciers to measure global warming in the twentieth century.
Week 6:
Ice cores
record past changes of Earth's environment and
contain the only samples of Earth's past atmosphere.
Week 7:
Ice Age cycles, evidence from the ocean floor, and Milankovich theory of
radiation and climate.
Vostok Station: is there life in the great lake beneath Antarctica?
Week 8:
Lake Vostok: a stepping stone to the icy moons of the outer solar system?
FAST climate changes recorded in Greenland ice.
Week 9:
How the weight of Ice Age ice sheets makes continents sink.
Melting ice, and rising sea level.
Glacier outburst floods.
Week 10:
Future sea level and melting glaciers.
Group Project Reports.
Global warming, future sea level, and Greenland and Antarctic ice.
The coming Ice Age.