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Explore and Discover How Our Amazing Region was Formed!

Field Trips, Presentations and Other Events are designed to educate, entertain and leave you with a sense of “wow” along with providing fascinating information about the Ice Age Floods. 

Upcoming IAFI Events Calendar

Ice Age Floods Institute Events Inspire, Encourage Exploration, Offer Friendship and Involvement

June 2025
Jun 28
Jun 28, 2025
The Gathering Place, LaCrosse, WA 99143 United States

Lloyd Stoess “An Overview of the Middle and Lower Cheney-Palouse Tract of the Channel Scablands – Interesting Features and Recent Discoveries”. This lecture will include a speculative look at when

July 2025
Jul 26
Jul 26, 2025
Waikiki Springs Trailhead, Washington 99218

Join us for a scenic and informative hike north of Spokane, where geologist Michael Hamilton, an IAFICS board member, will guide us through fascinating Ice Age flood features. This newly

September 2025
Sep 06
Sep 06, 2025

Retired CWU Geographer Karl Lillquist will lead a field trip to the lower Chiwawa River Valley near Plain, WA.  Plan on gathering in the vicinity of Plain at about 10am. 

Sep 27
Sep 27, 2025
Hal Holmes Community Center, 201 Ruby St
Ellensburg, WA 98926 United States

Joseph T. Pardee Bill Burgel will be speaking on the career and contributions of Joseph Pardee to our understanding of the Ice Age Floods. Joseph T. Pardee was a USGS

Free
October 2025
Oct 11
Oct 11, 2025
Doris Morrison Learning Center (DMLC), 1330 S Henry Road
Greenacres, Washington 99016

This event is open to the public, but only IAFI Cheney-Spokane members can vote during the member meeting. It will be held at the beautiful new Doris Morrison Learning Center

Oct 11
Oct 11, 2025
Hal Holmes Community Center, 201 Ruby St
Ellensburg, WA 98926 United States

Stephen Angster, +one Stephen Angster, a research scientist at the Seattle Field Office of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earthquake Science Center, focuses on characterizing and integrating upper-plate fault source parameters

Free
November 2025
Nov 01
Nov 01, 2025

Karl Lillquist will lead a field trip east of Coulee City, WA.  More details will be forthcoming.

Free

Activities

Field Trips and Hikes are led by amateur and professional Geologists with new and amazing information to share. They are fun, exciting and informative outdoor adventures for the entire Family to enjoy!

Visit our Activities Event Calendar below for IAFI Field Trips, Hikes and other activities in your area, and go have a great time!

Upcoming Activities
July 2025
Jul 26
September 2025
October 2025
Oct 11
October 11, 2025
Doris Morrison Learning Center (DMLC), 1330 S Henry Road
Greenacres, Washington 99016

Presentations

We offer indoor Presentations, especially popular when heat or cold make outdoor Field Trips too uncertain or uncomfortable. Many Presentations are available via Zoom.

We also offer programs for schools, senior centers and  similar organizations to educate and stimulate minds about the Ice Age Floods.

Upcoming Presentations
June 2025
September 2025
Sep 27
September 27, 2025
Hal Holmes Community Center, 201 Ruby St
Ellensburg, WA 98926 United States
Free
October 2025
Oct 11
October 11, 2025
Doris Morrison Learning Center (DMLC), 1330 S Henry Road
Greenacres, Washington 99016

Other events

Other Events such as meetings, festivals, conventions and gatherings, with various public and private organizations, help us tell the story of the Ice Age Floods, Geology, Wildlife and History.

We often have our ‘Store in a Box‘ at these types of events where people can view and purchase IAFI merchandise.

Other Upcoming events

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Relive Past Articles

Ice Age Floods’ Eye Candy

Check out Bruce Bjornstad’s Ice Age Floodscapes YouTube channel.  A growing library of surreal aerial video and pics of other-worldly megaflood features.These drone videos and images that can only be achieved and appreiciated from close range in the air give a unique perspective on large landscape features, such as: Gardena Cliffs Rhythmites, Streamlined

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Lava + Ice + Water = Floods Geology

Floods of lava (Columbia River Basalts) and Ice Age Floods of water (Lake Missoula floods and the Bonneville Flood) are world-famous topics among geologists. To have both sets of floods in the same area means the geology of the Inland Northwest is truly Disneyland for Geologists! The program begins in

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Ice Age Floods – Giant Current Ripples

Check out this 2-Minute Geology expedition with Nick Zentner and Tom Foster exploring the Giant Current Ripples at West Bar and Camas Prairie. Ice age floodwater 650 feet deep – moving at 65 miles per hour – left Giant Current Ripples along the Columbia River at West Bar! The ripples

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New Saber-Toothed Cat Species May Have Hunted Rhinos in America

Using detailed fossil comparison techniques, scientists have been able to identify a giant new saber-toothed cat species, Machairodus lahayishupup, which would have prowled around the open spaces of North America between 5 and 9 million years ago. One of the biggest cats ever discovered, M. lahayishupup is estimated in this new

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“Hiding in Plain Sight”

Millions of people who visit and pass through the Gorge each year don’t realize the scope of the cataclysmic stories behind the stunning and tranquil beauty they are surrounded by. The Spring 2019 edition of The Gorge Magazine (page 50) attempts to address that premise with a feature article about

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Williams Lake Cataract Video

Williams Lake Cataract is an ancient, dry waterfall left behind along the Cheney-Palouse Scabland Tract in eastern Washington after Ice Age flooding recessionally ripped out underlying basalt to produce this massive cataract. Video produced by Bruce Bjornstad, Ice Age Floodscapes

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Ice Age Map Pacific NW

Ice Age Flood Simulation Video

An interesting, 4 minute captioned video from UC Santa Cruz (ingomar200) of a satellite-view computer simulation illustrating flood paths and transient lakes of an Ice Age Flood. The video shows a physics-based computer simulation of the Great Flood from Glacial Lake Missoula about 15,000 years ago. At the time, an ice dam

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