Sharing the Fascinating Ice Age Floods Story Since 1995
Thursday, April 4, 2024. 7:00 pm. What Happened to the Spokane Ice Sheet? Friday, April 5, 2024. 7:00 pm. The Missoula Floods versus Bretz's Spokane Flood Saturday, April 6, 2024. 7:00 pm. Was Moses Coulee Carved by Subglacial Floods? Doors open at 6:30 pm each night. 700 seats. Open seating. Free. Will be filmed for YouTube. Morgan Auditorium. 400 E 1st Ave. Ellensburg, Washington, USA.
Dear Members, Former Members, and Friends, I trust this message finds you in good health and spirits. I'm Mike Doran, a fellow member of the Ellensburg Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute, and I'm reaching out to you with an important invitation. Our chapter has a storied past filled with enriching field trips, captivating lectures, and engaging speakers. However, it's time for us to refocus our efforts and ensure that we're set for continued growth and success in the future. To achieve this, a dedicated group of us has been actively discussing strategies and ideas. Now, we're eager to invite you to join us for a special meeting where we can gather your invaluable input, ideas, and concerns. Your participation, in any capacity you choose, is vital as we navigate our path forward. We're fortunate that Karl Lillquist has arranged for us to convene on Friday, April 5th, at 4:30 PM in a meeting room at Dean Hall on the Central campus. (Please note that parking restrictions on campus ease after 4:30 PM as there is no cost then. Use parking lot O-5. Just be sure to park in General Parking slots and not Staff slots. ) The meeting time aligns perfectly with Nick's Bretz lectures, providing an ideal opportunity for us to meet before attending his 7:00 PM talk. During our gathering, we'll create an open forum for discussion and have light refreshments available. Additionally, we will be conducting elections for the following officer positions: Secretary, Vice-President, and President. This is an excellent opportunity for members to get involved and help shape the future direction of our organization. Whether you're interested in taking an active role in the organization, standing for election, or simply wish to share your thoughts, your presence will be immensely valued. Together, we aim to bolster Karl and Nick's efforts and ensure the sustained success of our chapter. We're genuinely excited about the possibilities that lie ahead and eagerly anticipate seeing you there. Should you have any questions or concerns beforehand, please feel free to reach out to me at 253-278-3470. Warm regards, Mike Doran
The Wenatchee Valley Erratics Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute will meet Tuesday, April 9 at 7:00 PM, at the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center, 127 S. Mission, Wenatchee. Or via Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84520197937 Webinar ID: 845 2019 7937 Dr. Earl F. Cater, Director of the Douglas County Museum in Waterville, will present “The Geology of Sunset Highway.” Topics he will discuss include: Early Euro-American explorations of the Big Bend country; Difficulty in getting to Douglas County because of elevation and size; Barriers to Euro-American settlement: Rocks and no roads, Banks Lake area’s 800-feet high basalt cliffs, Corbaley Canyon’s fractured gneiss and schist, rockslides from basalt layers; Obstacles from glaciation: Yeager Rock and multiple haystack rocks and other glacial features; The first stage in Okanogan, March 1884: The Jack Smith story; 1913 Declaration of the Sunset Highway as the Red Trail; 1926 Declaration of the Sunset Highway as the Yellowstone Trail. The program is free and open to the public. Contact information: Dr. Earl F. Cater Director, Douglas County Museum efcater@gmail.com 515-371-3535 Susan D. Freiberg Erratics Chapter Publicity wenvalerratics@yahoo.com
This live musical experience immerses the musicians and audience in large-scale projections of landscapes animated to the contemporary classical program. Using photogrammetry and LiDAR, the scenes are rendered in three-dimensional point clouds that animate to reveal the sculptural aspects of the geology and landforms. The second half of the evening’s program is “He Who Saw the Deep,” which are five studies for a larger piece in development about the ice age floods. Principally drawing on floodscapes in the Channeled Scablands, these five works explore the enigmatic landscapes that inspired J Harlen Bretz’s cataclysmic flood theory set to a musical program performed by Pyxis Quartet. Friday, April 12, 2024 at 7:00PM Straub Collaborative 3333 NW Industrial St, Portland, ORMore information can be found here. Get your tickets at 45th Parallel website. WORKS Andy Akiho: Prospects of a Misplaced Year PERFORMERS Ron Blessinger, violin Greg Ewer, violin Charles Noble, viola Marilyn de Oliviera, cello Yoko Greeney, piano Brad Johnson, visual artist Meanwhile, enjoy this trailer video
On Thursday, April 25, four classes of 7th grade science students from Henkle Middle School will be visiting Fort Cascades Park on the Columbia River below Bonneville Dam for talks by Jeanette Burkhardt and Margaret Neumann of Yakama Fisheries and Mid-Columbia Fisheries, and Lloyd DeKay of the Ice Age Floods Institute. All together, 90 students will learn more in the field about fish, natural resources and Gorge geology. The presenters also volunteer in leading field trips for the Columbia Gorge Master Naturalist program.
Lloyd DeKay, president of the Columbia River Gorge Chapter of IAFI, has volunteered to lead a day-long presentation and field trip on June 1, 2024, to explore the geology of the central-east portion of the Columbia River Gorge for winning donors at the Skyline Health Foundation's Cultivate Columbia fundraiser on April 13, 2024. The day will begin at 8:30 AM with a slide presentation about the origins and geohistory of the Gorge. Then participants will board a bus for a 40+ mile roundtrip to see and discuss a number of uniquely interesting places and geologic features found in the Gorge between White Salmon and The Dalles. Basalt Pillows We'll see and discuss lahar deposits, kolk ponds, tree casts, differences between pillow basalts and Maar deposits, Ice Age Floods features, indigenous petroglyphs and even a brief trip through Africa USA. Lunch will be no-host at a local restaurant along the way. Maar Deposits This field trip is donated in support of the Skyline Health Foundation. The Cultivate Columbia fundraiser is currently sold out, so if you don't have tickets and you wish to participate, you should contact the foundation director, Elizabeth Vaivoda at 509-637-2602 for more details.
Lloyd Stoess, Palouse Falls Chapter President, will take participants on an epic journey from northwest Montana, through northern Idaho, eastern Washington, the Washington-Oregon border and as far south as the coast of California. Come and see how our channeled scablands are just a part of the story - a story like none other on earth.
Gary Kleinknecht will present MCBONES: The Coyote Canyon Mammoth Site Learn about the activities going on at this local mammoth dig site, the impact of Ice Age floods revealed at the site and the ongoing paleoenvironmental study. Presented by our own Lake Lewis Chapter Program Director and ‘go-to’ mammoth dig volunteer: Gary Kleinknecht. Gary serves as the Education Director for MCBONES, the educational 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization which oversees activities at the Coyote Canyon site. Tuesday, May 14th @7PM at The REACH Museum 1943 Columbia Park Trail, Richland, WA 99352
The Willamette Valley at the time of the Ice Age Floods, 18,000 - 15,000 years ago, was backwater for massive floodwaters coming through the Columbia River Gorge multiple times. It was known as temporary Lake Allison for the geologist who first studied it as a lake. David Ellingson, a biologist and paleontologist, teaches paleontology at Woodburn High School in Woodburn Oregon. Here he has led his students in an ongoing dig for many years for fauna and megafauna fossil bones. The dig will continue in the same location starting in early July this summer. David has spoken to our group several times, always bringing fossils for us to view. We look forward to welcoming David in-person & online for a very interesting evening. When: Thursday, May 16, 2024 @ 7:00 PM PDT Where: Simultaneous In-Person Live and ZOOM presentation from Tualatin Heritage Center, 8700 SW Sweek Drive, Tualatin, OR 97062 For more information contact: LowerColumbia@iafi.org If you cannot attend the in-person meeting at THC, please join us online Click here to join the Zoom meeting Meeting ID: 869 4651 3479 Passcode: 322382.
From Wikipedia Glacial Lake Missoula is most commonly invoked as the sole source of water to form the Channeled Scabland. However, early work by Bretz (and others) suggested more direct contributions of meltwater from the Cordilleran Ice Sheet to explain formation of some Scabland flood tracts. In some cases, these contributions may have been subglacially routed. This presentation will examine new research on Moses Coulee - one of the more enigmatic Scabland coulees – that suggests subglacial meltwater flows best explain the erosional patterns of the coulee and its perplexing lack of connectivity to other Scabland flood routes. Further, the presentation will examine new evidence for proglacial (Mega) floods during deglaciation of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet that may also contribute to formation of flood features such as giant bars along the Columbia River Valley. The presentation highlights the need for greater integration of Cordilleran Ice Sheet hydrology in the interpretive framework of the Channeled Scabland. As a workup to this presentation please familiarize yourself with the IAFI News article, "Moses Coulee: Unveiling the Mystery of a Colossal Ice Age Scar", that gives an overview on this subject. Dr. Jerome Lesemann obtained his PhD from Simon Fraser University. He currently teaches in the Earth Science Department at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, BC. His research interests are in Quaternary geology and sedimentology with a focus on glacier processes and ice sheet hydrology. He has had an interest in the Channeled Scabland for over two decades, with a particular focus on the dynamics of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet along the northern reaches of the Channeled Scabland. Date: 20 May 2024 at 7:00pm Location: Bellevue College, Bldg. R, Rm. 103 or click on Zoom link: https://us02web.Zoom.us/j/82985244730