Name: Bill Burgel Lecture- Missoula Floods Evidence in the Greater Portland Area
Start: 2023-11-16T18:30:00-08:00
End: 2023-11-16T20:00:00-08:00
Location: Tualatin Heritage Center

October 2023
TOUR: The Five Great Lakes of the Missoula Floods

October 7, 2023 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm PDT

FIELD TRIP LEADERS: Lloyd Stoess, Palouse Falls Chapter President and Jacqui Hair, Palouse Falls Chapter Vice President. DESCRIPTION OF FIELD TRIP: This tour will visit much of the area covered by the temporary drainage known as Lake Lewis. At its maximum, the lake was over 1000 feet deep, with only a few “Lake Lewis Isles” rising above. Icebergs and other floating debris (including mammoth carcasses) drifted into quieter waters and ran aground along the shorelines of these islands, leaving behind boulders of exotic rock types (erratics) from hundreds of miles away. Ice Age flood site features will include, but are not limited to: Devils Canyon; Washtucna Coulee; Coyote Canyon Mammoth Dig Site; Lakes Lewis Isles; and the White Bluffs. CHECK-IN: Your name badge and field guide will be available at the following times and locations: Saturday October 7th: Prior to departure at the Washtucna High School. WHERE TO MEET: Washtucna High School, 730 Booth Ave., Washtucna, WA >> Parking is available on site. << BUS LOADING: A chartered bus will begin loading at 8:45 a.m.; buses leave promptly at 9:00 a.m. Buses will return around 5:00 p.m.. Restrooms are available at some stops. CANCELLATION: Cancellation refunds will be made only if field trip registrar, Jacqui Hair, receives notice no later than September 24 and vacancies can be filled from a stand-by list. Jacqui can be reached at jacquihair05@gmail.com or (509) 301-0007. ITEMS TO BRING WITH YOU: Binoculars, camera, sunglasses, and clothing for variable weather conditions. $125* field trip fee– Registering as a non-Ice Age Floods Institute Member $110* field trip fee– Registering as a Ice Age Floods Institute Member. If joining now or renewing as an IAFI member, also include your IAFI Membership Application with your field trip registration, fees and liability release form. Please write one check to IAFIPF for registration and a separate check to IAFI for membership fee. $95* field trip fee – Registering as a Palouse Falls Chapter Ice Age Floods Institute Member (thank you for your support!) *FIELD TRIP FEE covers: 1) outstanding and knowledgeable field trip leaders, 2) a very detailed and well-illustrated Field Trip Guidebook, 3) delicious lunch, snacks, and drinks, and 4) comfortable deluxe chartered bus with microphone system for lectures while in route. Registration and liability forms are available for download.
Lunch and Lecture with Dr. Eugene Kiver- “Solving Geologic Problems: Megafloods of Lava & Water in Eastern Washington”

October 9, 2023 @ 11:30 am - 2:00 pm PDT

The Hive 2904 E Sprague Ave, Spokane, WA

Where: THE HIVE, Event A Room (Use Door Code 371047 # to enter.) Bring your lunch and enjoy this Floods lecture from Dr. Kiver during the lunch hour. The Chapter will provide a variety of beverages, cookies, and plates, utensils, cups, and crushed ice. There will be plenty of time for questions and answers! Description: The flat, non-mountainous topography of eastern Washington displaying mostly serene landscapes suggests a quiet geologic origin. However, a closer examination of the rocks, sediments and landforms tells a story of violence that would seem only Hollywood could invent! Massive floods of lava, some over 200’ thick and 300 miles long about 17 to 6 million years ago buried a hilly landscape turning the Columbia Plateau or Basin into a vast lava plain called a flood basalt field. No human has ever experienced lava flows of this magnitude. Later during the Pleistocene, huge continental glaciers covered most of North America and ground much of the underlying rock into silt-size particles that would later become the famous Palouse Soil. The glaciers also created a huge lake that repeatedly failed catastrophically and ripped the rock surface into an astonishing system of coulees, lakes, and other landforms that make up the Channeled Scabland. This lecture is free and open to the public. Dr. Kiver is Geology Professor Emeritus after teaching 34 years at Eastern Washington University. He studies glacial history in the West and volcanic history of the Cascade Mountains. He is a founding member of the Ice Age Floods Institute and a member of the IAFI Cheney-Spokane Chapter board of directors. If you will be coming, please RSVP to iaficheneyspokane@gmail.com with the number of people. This will help us get the right amount of supplies. Thank you!
Dr. Ralph Dawes – “Glaciated Landscape Beneath the Okanogan Ice Sheet”

October 10, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

The Okanogan Lobe landscape was studied early in the last century by well-known geologists J Harlan Bretz, Richard Foster Flint, and Aaron C. Waters. How the ice sheet shaped the landscape underneath it was a source of controversy back then, and remains a subject of scientific debate today.
IAFI Board Meeting

October 14, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am PDT

Online

The IAFI Board of Directors will generally meet on the second Saturday of each month (except December). The meeting will usually be held via Zoom 09:00 Pacific/ 10:00 Mountain Time Join Zoom Meeting Link Meeting ID: 843 5431 3682 Passcode: 967409 Call-in number: +1-669-900-9128 Members are welcome to attend to both listen and contribute to the workings of the Institute
Cheney-Spokane Chapter Fishtrap Lake Field Trip / Hike

October 14, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm PDT

Fishtrap Lake South Loop

Fishtrap Lake, Washington (BLM Photo) Come join us for a 5-mile hike to explore the Ice Age floods features in the Fishtrap Lake area east of Sprague, WA! The Cheney-Spokane Chapter of the IAFI is scheduling a hike at Fishtrap Lake on Saturday, October 14th. The hike will be led by Don Chadbourne and Chris Sheeran, geologists and board members of the Cheney-Spokane Chapter. Description of Fishtrap Lake Hike We will begin and end at the Fishtrap Lake South Loop Trailhead. The hike will follow the South Loop trail, with a total length of about 5 miles. The trail is mostly single track over dirt and rock, with an elevation gain and loss of about 500 feet. Along the way we will have an intimate view of the channeled scablands that were carved out by the ice age floods and see features including pothole lakes, rock benches, Mima mounds, kolks, and streamlined and scarped Palouse hills. The hike will also provide wide open views of Fishtrap Lake and the surrounding country. This hike is included in On the Trail of the Ice Age Floods – Northern Reaches, by Bruce Bjornstad & Eugene Kiver, but we will be following trails that were constructed after the book was published. Directions to the trailhead From I-90 take Exit 254 and proceed south 3.6 miles on the Sprague Highway. Turn left (east) on Miller Ranch Road and proceed 0.2 miles to the “T” at the Miller Ranch house. Turn right (south) and drive 0.8 miles to the trailhead parking lot. There is a vault toilet at the parking lot. (Google Maps Link: https://goo.gl/maps/9Zz7nwdwziMzHYh69 map coordinates: 47.33381100925525, -117.863529217959) The hike will be limited to 20 hikers. Items to bring with you: appropriate shoes, day pack, water, snacks, appropriate clothing for changes in the weather, sun protection, emergency items, camera and binoculars. Walking poles will be helpful. The hike is free; however, donations for support of Chapter activities will be accepted. For additional questions contact Don at 509-891-5875.
Columbia Gorge Chapter Picnic Canceled

October 15, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT

Horsethief Lake Picnic Area 8514 Lewis Clark Highway, Washington

This event has been canceled and may be rescheduled in the Spring. The Columbia Gorge Chapter has been pretty quiet since Covid and it's about time we get ramped up again. So, we want to invite our members and their families to a chapter picnic on October 15, 2023 at Horsethief Lake picnic area. The chapter will provide fixin's for sandwiches, salads, chips, cookies and a selection of non-alcoholic drinks. There are 35 unsheltered picnic tables located around the day-use area. Nine braziers are available if you want to cook something. Facilities are first-come, first-served so let's plan to gather at noon. We'll need to know about how many to plan for so please use the link below to let us know that you're planning to attend and how many will be with you. We can do group games like three legged and sack races, beanbag toss games, balloon or egg races, maybe hands-free watermelon eating contest for entertainment. If anyone is so inclined, it would be great if you wanted to do a brief talk about geology and/or cultural aspects of the area. At the end we can also take a short trip to the petroglyph display if you've not seen that. But the main purpose is to get together, have some fun, and talk about renewing chapter activities.

Free
The Other Half of the Equation: JT Pardee and the Lake He Discovered

October 19, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm PDT

Tualatin Heritage Center 8700 SW Sweek Drive, Tualatin, OR, United States

Bill Burgel While J Harlen Bretz was exploring the Scablands with his grad students, Joseph Pardee was quietly amassing convincing data about the existence of Glacial Lake Missoula. Pardee's work ultimately led to acceptance of Bretz' theory of catastrophic outburst flooding as an important tool in the shaping of our world. Come hear Bill Burgel in person discuss JT Pardee's critical role in the evolution of the science of geology! This presentation is In-Person Only on Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 7:00PM, at Tualatin Heritage Center, 8700 SW Sweek Drive, Tualatin, OR 97062 About our presenter: Bill Burgel Bill retired from the railroad industry after a successful 40 year career. He worked for several railroads in the engineering and operating departments.His interest and training in geology was often called upon to resolve landscape issues and rerouting studies, implement early earthquake warning strategies and conduct numerous long railroad tunnel analyses.He has given many talks on rail issues as well as earthquake preparedness and topics pertaining to regional geology to local audiences throughout the Pacific Northwest. Bill is a graduate of The University of Michigan, BS in Engineering and MS in Structural Geology from Idaho State University.
November 2023
Puget Lobe Chapter Zoom Meeting

November 6, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PST

Zoom Meeting

The Puget Lobe w1ll meet November 6, 2023 via Zoom (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82985244730) for Scott Burns to present "Ice Age Floods throughout the Quaternary. Don't forget the older ones." Keyword is the "older ones" - older than our "recent Fraser" Missoula Floods (18Kya-15Kya). Scott will tell you how to identify the deposits.
CANCELLED – Terroir of Oregon Wines – Dr. Scott Burns

November 8, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST

Pioneer Church 18005 S Gronlund Rd, Oregon City, OR, United States

This lecture has been cancelled for now. Terroir of Oregon Wines - the relationship of geology and climate to wine tastes - presentation by Dr. Scott Burns - Lower Columbia Chapter: In-Person Meeting The Willamette Valley is famous for having different flavors of Pinot Noir wines based on their soils. Dr. Burns will discuss what terroir of wine is and how geology and climate affects the flavors of the wines. He will also compare the terroirs of Oregon and Washington wine growing areas. We will sip some different wines at the end to show how the flavors differ. Join us for this joint Lower Columbia Chapter/Baker Cabin Historical Society Meeting at Pioneer Church, Oregon City, on Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at 7:00 PM PST. The meeting will begin with Dr. Burn's presentation at 7:00PM. At the end, Dr. Burns will present some different wines to sip showing how the flavors differ. Limited seating. Must be 21+ to sip. Directions: I-205 Exit 10 Hwy 213S, Rt on Washington St, to round-about: take 2nd exit onto Clackamas River Rd, 5.7 mi to rt on S Hattan Rd. Go up hill 1 long block to top. See Pioneer Ch from corner. Rt. on S Gronlund Rd to 1st driveway: Church parking lot. ADA accessible. For add'l parking, take main entrance road at str. corner to the Baker Cabin parking lot. Dr. Scott Burns is Professor Emeritus of Engineering Geology at Portland State University, Past President of IAEG (International Association of Engineering Geologist and the Environment), and Co-author of revised second edition: “Cataclysms on the Columbia.”
Bill Burgel Lecture- Missoula Floods Evidence in the Greater Portland Area

November 16, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm PST

Tualatin Heritage Center 8700 SW Sweek Drive, Tualatin, OR, United States

Bill Burgel will lead you on a 45 minute long travelogue - starting in the Columbia River Gorge and ending south of Tualatin - of all the amazing geology produced by the Missoula Floods. Did you know one of the largest scour pits formed by the floods is right here in Portland? And, why Rockwood got its name? This Travelogue will be available should you want to visit each of these sights. Bill Burgel - "Where to See Evidence of the Missoula Floods in the Greater Portland Area" Thursday, November 16, 2023. In Person 6:45PM PST at Tualatin Heritage Center, 8700 SW Sweek Drive, Tualatin, OR 97062 ALSO Simultaneous Live ZOOM from THC if you cannot attend the in-person THC meeting yourself. Click here to join zoom meeting Meeting ID: 824 3786 3054 Passcode: 487685. Bill Burgel Bill Burgel Bio Bill Burgel retired from the railroad industry after a successful forty year career. He worked for several railroads in the engineering and operating departments. His work for Union Pacific encompassed the design of the first computer-aided dispatching office in the nation. This office was located in Portland and Bill was the Regional Chief Dispatcher for several years before the office was moved to Omaha. After retiring from the railroad in 1989, he assisted the Surface Transportation Board as their rail operations manager for two major mergers, once in Washington DC and the second time in Chicago. Bill has managed many rail studies for both Oregon and Washington DOTs as well as for TriMet and Sound Transit in Seattle. While working for the railroad, his interest and training in geology was often called upon to resolve landslide issues and rerouting studies, implement early earthquake warning strategies, and conduct numerous long railroad tunnel analyses. Bill has given numerous presentations on rail issues as well as earthquake preparedness and topics pertaining to regional geology to local audiences throughout the Pacific Northwest including Geologic Society of the Oregon Country, University of Oregon, Portland State University, Central Oregon Geologic Society, Ice Age Floods Institute - several chapters, plus many other groups. Bill is a graduate of The University Michigan: BS in Engineering. At Idaho State University, he earned MS Degree in Structural Geology. Bill is a member of the IAFI Lower Columbia Chapter and its Board of Directors. This is our last regular meeting in 2023. We will not meet in December since our regular meetings on the third Thursday of each month is so close to the Christmas Holiday. Thank you all for your support and attendance at Lower Columbia Chapter/IAFI programs and events as we enter our 20th consecutive year in 2024. Best wishes for a very happy holiday season.

October 2023

TOUR: The Five Great Lakes of the Missoula Floods

Lunch and Lecture with Dr. Eugene Kiver- “Solving Geologic Problems: Megafloods of Lava & Water in Eastern Washington”

Dr. Ralph Dawes – “Glaciated Landscape Beneath the Okanogan Ice Sheet”

IAFI Board Meeting

Cheney-Spokane Chapter Fishtrap Lake Field Trip / Hike

Columbia Gorge Chapter Picnic Canceled

The Other Half of the Equation: JT Pardee and the Lake He Discovered

November 2023

Puget Lobe Chapter Zoom Meeting

CANCELLED – Terroir of Oregon Wines – Dr. Scott Burns

Bill Burgel Lecture- Missoula Floods Evidence in the Greater Portland Area

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