Sharing the Fascinating Ice Age Floods Story Since 1995
The Ice Age Floods Institute (IAFI) was founded in 1995 as an educational nonprofit.
Major accomplishments since inception include:
Ice Age Floods Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting public awareness and education relating to the significance of the Ice Age Floods.
Proactively market the Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail experience.
I have been a member of the Ice Age Floods Institute since 2001 and was a founding member of the Cheney-Spokane Chapter.
I was president of the Cheney-Spokane Chapter for five years and have been IAFI president since 2013…
After growing up in the Tri-Cities area I attended Washington State Univ. -BS in Psychology- and the University of South Carolina -MEd in Secondary Social Studies Education-.
I am retired in the Tri-Cities area after 40 years in…
I was born and raised on a farm in Hansen Idaho, graduated from the University of Idaho and after a ten year stint with a private company, went into public accounting.
I was asked to join Ice Age Floods while on a…
I received my BS from Case-Western Reserve and my Doctorate at the U of Wyoming where I studied alpine glaciation in the Medicine Bow Mountains of Colorado and Wyoming.
I taught geology at Eastern Washington Univ. for 34…
One of the founding members of the Ice Age Floods Institute.
Glacial Lake Missoula Chapter Pres. for 2-years. Geologist for the U.S. National Forest Service (Custer NF, Lolo NF, Siuslaw NF and Inyo NF) and the Bureau of Land Management…
My family moved from beautiful Northeast Texas to the Spokane area to teach and work at Eastern Washington University.
We raised four children on a sheep ranch east of Cheney where a rock ledge captivated EWU students…
I was blessed to be raised in the San Joaquin Valley when water was plentiful and the air was clean.
On a good day, I could stand in my driveway and see the Sierra Nevada range to the East, and the Coast Range to the west…
Geology has always interested me but I didn’t pursue it because life led me in a different direction and I got a business degree at the Univ. of Washington.
In the ’90’s, my wife and I often came over to the Gorge Amphitheater for…
My first IAFI Field Trip was in 2010 on the Cheney-Palouse
scabland. Subsequent field trips and hikes taught me about the area geology and the Ice Age Floods. I’m a Cheney-Spokane board member and treasurer, and I lead hikes …
We welcome Linda McCollum as the new president of the Cheney-Spokane Chapter. Linda is a professor emeritus with the Department of Geology at Eastern Washington University.
BS from West Chester State College; MS from Oregon State U.; PhD from the University of Kansas.
Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University where I retired as Professor Emeritus in….
I’m also the IAFI Webmaster and Newsletter Editor – I have a BA in Earth Sciences and an MS in Geological Oceanography.
I worked 27 years on international exploration projects throughout the world with Gulf/Chevron…
My family history is rooted in the Columbia Basin, the Okanogan country and the Yakima Valley. So, I very much identify with central Washington. I was born in Ephrata and raised in Soap Lake. Growing up in the lower Grand Coulee, I often …
Technical Committee Member – I was raised in the western United States, the second son of a USGS topographical surveyor and a cow girl from Chilly Flats Idaho.
Moved twice a year attending many schools in…
VACANT – Lake Lewis Chapter President
The presidency of the Lake Lewis Chapter is currently VACANT, but there are plans afoot to organize a local board of directors to distribute the workload of the chapter.
If you live in or close to this area and would like to help…
Since our previous president, Rick Thompson, retired for a move to Georgia, I have accepted to be Interim President of the Lower Columbia Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute. I was instrumental in forming the Lower Columbia Chapter…
I was born and raised in Spokane, WA, where I spent many years during high school and college working part time at a plant nursery.
My secondary education combines a mixture of machine shop studies, natural resources…
I grew up on a wheat farm 8 miles from Palouse Falls but didn’t learn about the Ice Age Floods until I attended EWSC where I graduated in 1974 with a Geography BA.
After college, I returned to Washtucna to work with my father in our agricultural…
The geologic landscape east of the Cascades has always fascinated me.
I was introduced to the Ice Age Floods story by Mike Folsom, Dale Stradling and Gene Kiver while I was an undergraduate at Eastern Washington University…
Technical Committee Member – I’m currently president of the IAFI-Wenatchee Valley Erratics.
I grew up in the Midwest (Rochester, Minnesota). My first knowledge of the Missoula Floods and J Harlen Bretz was in 1981…
I was born and raised in Tri-Cities, Washington. I started college at CBC where I decided to go into accounting, eventually graduating from WSU with my Bachelors in Accounting.
I began working for Monte Nail in 2009 and IAFI was my…
My husband Terry and I moved to the Columbia River Gorge in 1993 and were struck by its beauty.
We signed up for a field trip with the Lower Columbia chapter one weekend in 1995, drove almost two hours to board the bus in…
I’ve been fortunate to have an ‘in house’ geologist for over 40 years. Lloyd’s career enabled us to live in and explore much of the US, Africa and Europe. With retirement came one last move, to Washington State, which we chose for many reasons…
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