Numerical Ice Sheet Observatory

If you've been here before and are wondering what happened to the Society to End the Holocene Myth, well, the carefree days of my youth are over. I'm thinking of forming a new fake society, one to rename the Holocene the Anthropocene. Just a thought.

In the meantime, this page offers a collection of materials relevant to my teaching, my research, and some thoughts that occupy my mind. These pages are not fancy (I write them up using emacs) but hey, they can be read using lynx. If you'd like to make suggestions, please

Giant Ice Sheet Threatens Globe!

or,

What I do for a living at Portland State University.

teaching

• UNST 232 Global Environmental Change (WI2010)

• GEOL 326 Numerical Modeling of Earth Systems (SP2010)

• GEOL 459/559 Quaternary Climate (WI2010)

• GEOL 410/510 The Cryosphere

• GEOL 466/566 Glaciology

• GEOL 420/520 Introduction to Geophysics

current research

• This work is suppported by research grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation and NASA.

• response of outlet glaciers to collapse of the Larsen Ice Shelf
  • link to article at Global and Planetary Change

• Discharge variability of the Ross ice streams, West Antarctica
  • ice stream stagnation and reactivation pdf

• Catastrophic ice-shelf collapse as a source for Heinrich-Event icebergs
  2004, Hulbe, MacAyeal, Denton, Kleman, and Lowell, Paleoceanography. pdf
  • a comment pdf
  • and reply pdf

• The Brunt Ice Shelf pdf, an odd place along the Caird Coast, Antarctica.

• Breakup of ice shelves around the Antarctic Peninsula
  • March 2002 break-up of Larsen B
  • March 2002 report at NSIDC

• Curriculum Vitae of Christina L Hulbe

• Glacier ice at Portland State.

writing

• dust in the air
• schabernack (the use and abuse of temperature records)
• Antarctic warming, temperature from 1957 to 2006
• Antarctica and global warming
• west antarctic grounding line field project, part 1
  • pictures (part 2 of the above)
• Whither Greenland Goeth
• Northern Exposure
• faster than forecast
• The Sea Also Rises

general reading on climate & cryosphere

• The Discovery of Global Warming by Spencer Weart
• Global Outlook for Ice and Snow from the United Nations Environment Program

International Glaciological Society

• Visit the IGS homepage to read about the Society, membership, and its publications.

Beyond the ivory tower...

know your rights (in the U.S., at least for now)

military casualty counts in Iraq and Afghanistan, with links to civilian reports

• how to be an ally (pdf) by Frances Kendall

• Feminism 101

• racialicious, a blog, just go read for a while

• Realclimate, a blog written by real climate scientists.

• The Sea Shepherd defend, preserve, protect

• All Creatures
  • The emotional lives of animals.
  • Factory Farming: "The Truth Hurts" http://www.factoryfarming.com/
  • Think the above is a biased view? Try some Washington Post articles:
    They Die Piece By Piece
    In Pig Farming, Growing Concern
    "Farm animals in the United States are generally exempted from animal cruelty laws, and the USDA has tended not to get involved."