PSU Faculty and Staff

• Dr. Andrew G. Fountain (Departments of Geology and Geography)
• Dr. Christina Hulbe (Department of Geology)

• David C. Percy (Department of Geology)
• Hassan Basagic (Department of Geology)

Current Graduate students

• Adam Campbell (Department of Geology)
• Hassan Basagic (Department of Geography)
• Michael Hekkers (Department of Geography)
• Matt Hoffman (Department of Geology)

Local Collaborators

• Robert Schlicting (Cleveland High School, Portland, Oregon)
• Frank D. Granshaw (Portland Community College and Artemis Science, Portland, Oregon)

• GIS database of Glaciers and Glacier Change in the Contiguous 48 States

          Project web site: Database

          

          Presentation - Fountain:  American Geophysical Union 
                                                          Dec 2004

                                    - Fountain: American Geophysical Union
                                                          Dec 2007

                                      IGS      IGS_pdf

 

  Press:  Oregonian, March 2006

          Presentation - Fountain:  Melting Mountains Conference
                                                         Portland, OR, April 2007

   

• Antarctica:  McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research Project

          Web site: www.mcmlter.org

          Cryoconite Holes : Antarctica:  Ecosystems Entombed in Ice

             Formation of a cryoconite: THE MOVIE!

          Slide show by Glen Liston of his visit in January 2005

          Life style notes from the field team:  Antarctica 1999-2000 

          Glacier Photos from  Taylor Valley

          DON'T MISS! The Virtual Tour of the dry valleys.
                                 Fun for the whole family!  Photographic 
                                 panoramas from each weather station!

 

• Outburst Flood of a Glacier-dammed Lake, Kennicott Glacier, Alaska

            Project web page:  Kennicott Glacier

• The Geometry and Hydraulics of Englacial Conduits, Storglaciären, northern Sweden

            Project web page:  Storglaciären

In Progress

• Hassan Basagic:  Glacier change in the Sierra Nevada, California
                               Poster Presentation
  
  
• Michael Hekkers:  Climate modeling of the glaciers on Mt. Rainier, WA
  
  
• Matt Hoffman:  Melting of the glaciers in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica.

• Jan Dougall  Downstream effects of glaciers on water quality
              Web Page     Thesis     Journal Article
  
  
• Keith Jackson, 2007:  The mass wastage and flow of Eliot Glacier, Mt. Hood, Oregon.
              Web Page     Thesis     Journal Article
  
  
• Amy Ebnet,: 2005: A temperature-index model of melt water in Taylor Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica.
              Web Page     Thesis     Journal Article
  
  
• Shaun Marcott, 2005: A Tale of Three Sisters: Reconstructing the Holocene Glacial History and Paleoclimate Record at Three Sisters Volcanoes, Oregon, United States.
               Web Page     Thesis     Journal Article
  
  
• Robin Johnston, 2004:  Evolution of Channels on Taylor Glacier, Antarctica
               Web Page     Thesis     Journal Article
  
  
• Thomas Nylen, 2004: Spatial and Temporal Variations of Glaciers on Mount Rainier between 1913 and 1994
               Web Page     Thesis     Journal Article
  
  
• Sara Frödin, 2003: The Geometry and Hydraulics of Englacial Conduits, Storglaciären, northern Sweden  (non-thesis project)
                Web Page
  
  
• Don Lindsay: 2003: Hydrology of an Outburst Floods at Kennicott Glacier, Alaska
                Web Page     Thesis     
  
  
• Michele Cunico, 2003: The Mechanical Response of the Ice Dam to the Outburst Floods at Kennicott Glacier, Alaska.
                 Web Page    Thesis 
  
  
• Frank D. Granshaw, 2002: Glacier Change in the North Cascade National Park Complex, Washington USA, 1958 to 1998
                 Web Page    Thesis       Journal Article 
  
  
• Patrick Bardel, 2001: Mapping Polar Glaciers Using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
                 Web Page    Thesis       Journal Article 
  
  
• Jeremy Mennis, 1997: GIS Applications to Glaciology: Construction of the Mount Rainier Glacier Database

Learn how a glacier works - Project funded by the National Science Foundation, Office of Polar Programs

Glacier Change in the Upper Skagit River Basin - Project funded by Skagit Environmental Endowment Commission, and supported by the U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service, and British Columbia Provincial Park Service.

Mount Rainier National Park - Project funded by the National Park Service to educate the public about the glaciers within the park.  

Glaciology at Trent - Trent University
Glaciorisk - Unité ETNA
Glacier Image Database - University of Cincinatti, Department of Geology
Glaciers - Part 1 - Glacier images from the Department of Geology at Duke University
Glaciers - Part 2 - Glacier images from the Department of Geology at Duke University

Cold Regions Bibliography Project - American Geological Institute
University of Alberta GLIMS Server
World Data Centre for Glaciology, Cambridge - International Council for Science
World Glacier Monitoring Service

Snow Crystals - Kenneth G. Libbrecht, Califronia Institute of Technology
Electron Microscopy Unit Snow Page - USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center

Antarctic Projects Home Page - University of Wisconsin, Madison Space and Engineering Centre
British Antarctic Survey
McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) - Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
United States Antarctic Research Center - U.S. Geological Survey

Polar Research - National Science Foundation
Gateway to the Arctic - The International Arctic Environmental Data Directory