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UAF Glaciology Summer School


  • Wrangell Mountains Center and surrounding area McCarthy, AK (map)

The course is intended to provide glaciology graduate students with a comprehensive overview of the physics of glaciers and current research frontiers in glaciology. Key topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Remote sensing in glaciology

  • Glacier mass balance and glacier meteorology

  • Glacier dynamics, thermodynamics, surging and tidewater glaciers

  • Ice-sheet modeling, Inverse modeling

  • Glacier hydrology

  • Glacier geomorphology

  • Current research frontiers in glaciology

Come to their Glaciology Presentation on June 13th at 8:30pm in the Kennecott Rec Hall!