Glaciology

GEOL 4888 home page              Spring, 2022       Humphrey

A course in the dynamics of the earths cryosphere

Questions: neil@uwyo.edu or visit http://faculty.gg.uwyo.edu/neil or stop by my office (Humphrey, rm 320)

Course notes

 

 

 

Syllabus

(Note, if the date below has not been changed to 2022, then it is not for this years course!)

 

 

 

Homework

Due date

Readings etc.

Answers, Notes, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Homework #1

Tuesday, Feb 1, 2022

 A good read on background are chapters 1&2 in The Cryosphere, by Marshall (I will put a copy in the Geo Library)

NOTE: the pictures I show in class are almost all in the ‘LECTURE PHOTOGRAPHS’ link at the page bottom

 

 

 

 

Homework #2

Tuesday, Feb 22 2022

Read Chapters 3,4 in The Cryosphere or 1, 2 in Cuffey and Patterson (skip 2.5.2 and .3).  Chapter 3 is VERY dense, but you can skim it.

 

 

 

Homework #3

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Read chap 4 & 5 in C&P

Homework #3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Homework #4

Tuesday, March 8 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Homework #5

 

Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Read chap 6 in C&P

Midterm Quiz

 

 

 

 

 

 

Homework #6

Tuesday, April 12 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

Homework #7

 

Thursday, April 28, 2022

 

 

Example of old midterm, we may not have covered some of this material

Tues. April 18

Example old final exam

Another example final exam

 

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Final Exam

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lecture photographs