The Paleoglaciers Workshop was held at the University of Utah Department of Geology and Geophysics on Nov. 8-11. The workshop focsused on the development of the Western U.S. Paleoglaciers Database and related tools and databases to maximize its value to the research community.
Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/ndsu.edu/paleoglaciersworkshop2023/home
The outcomes of the workshop will soon be shared with the entire working group.
The 2023 winter speaker series, featuring remote talks by researchers studying paleoglaciers in the western U.S., concluded on March 9. Recordings of talks can be viewed on YouTube.
Jan. 27: Caleb Walcott, Ph.D. Student, University at Buffalo, Paleo-ELA calculation with GlaRe Tools
Dr. Cal Ruleman, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Pleistocene pre-glacial and glacial geomorphology
Feb. 2: Dr. Yingkui (Philip) Li, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, PalaeoIce tools for palaeoglacier reconstruction
Feb. 10: Dr. Laura Levy, Cal Poly Humboldt, Glacier history of the Klamath Mountains, California
Dr. Glenn Thackray, Idaho State University, Glacial chronology and mass balance musings in coastal Washington
Feb. 16: Jordan Dahle, Ph.D. Student, North Dakota State University, Great Basin glacial chronology
Dr. Aaron Barth, Rowan University, Beartooth Mountains glacial chronology
Feb. 24: Dr. Joe Tulenko, Berkeley Geochronology Center, Methods for analyzing geospatial data served from ICE-D
March 3: Dr. Ben Laabs, North Dakota State University, Developing a geospatial database of western U.S. paleoglaciers
Dr. Leif Anderson, University of Utah, and Dr. Joe Licciardi, University of New Hampshire, Drawing paleoglacier outlines
March 9: Dr. Aaron Putnam, University of Maine, Glacial chronologies of the Wind River and Sierra Nevada
Contacts:
Ben Laabs, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Geospatial Sciences, North Dakota State University.
Leif Anderson, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah.
Joe Licciardi, Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire.