Scabland – The Movie, A Google Earth Odyssey
“Scabland” – the Movie, A Google Earth Odyssey “Scabland” is a media complement to CWU Professor Nick Zentner’s 2023-2024 A-Z YouTube geology series that re-treads the ice age floods and […]
Puget Lobe Chapter Newsreels – A Continental Ice Sheet Background Perspective
(27Jan2024) This post contains the newsreels shown at the bginning of our Chapter meetings. Newsreels oroginally contain: the current presenter, future presenter, Chapter/IAFI current information, and the “newsreel” of selected […]
Postmortem on the southern Cordilleran Ice Sheet
(21Feb2024) On 18 March 2924 at 7:00pm the Puget Lobe Chapter io the IAFI will have Dr Ralph A Haugerud give his presentation “the Postmortem on the Southern Cordilleran Ice […]
Puget Lobe Chapter New Meeting Location
(06Dec23) The Puget Lobe Chapter is changing physical meeting location. We will meet at Bellevue College, Bldg “R”, Room 103, just off I-90. We will continue with “Zoom” (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82985244730) meetings […]
Ice Age Floods Around the World
(03 December 2023) The last ice age of Earth involved immense floods with peak flows comparable to those of ocean currents. About 40 examples are now known from Asia, […]
Ice Age Floods throughout the Quaternary – Don’t forget the older ones!
(12 October 2023) Most of the time when we discuss the Ice Age Floods, we are talking about the Missoula Floods which happened from 18,000-15,000 calendar years ago. Our research […]
2023 Rock-Out Jubilee was a Weekend of Wonders
There was no better way to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Ice Age Floods story than with a bunch of Floodies exploring the Grand Coulee. On June 1-3 over […]
Puget Sound Area has a Glacial Story to Tell
Although the Seattle region was not impacted by the large floods from Glacial Lake Missoula, Glacial Lake Columbia, or other glacial lakes east of the Cascades, the Puget Sound region […]
Grand Coulee – Geology of the Entire 50 miles
The 50-mile-long Grand Coulee should be on everyone’s bucket list for a “must see” feature. The immense power of the forces that created the Coulee are apparent to those who […]
Puget Lobe Chapter Origins – A Brief History
The Puget Lobe Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute had its origins in Wenatchee in 2007 during the Institute’s annual field trip. While riding in the tour bus, long-time […]