Glaciers and Global Change

Course Details

  • Acronym ESS 203
  • Instructor(s) Ed Waddington
  • Quarter Winter 2020
  • Credits 5
  • Meeting Times MWF 130-220 and T or Th lab
  • Location JHN 111

Course Description

Explores how glaciers record climate change and human activities through bubbles of ancient air and trace impurities in the ice. Also reviews glaciers impact on societies through sea-level, coastlines, water supplies, and transportation routes. Open to non-science majors.