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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

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 2026
September 2026
Sep 26
September 26, 2026
Cle Elum Lake,
47° 15' 10.0800" N 121° 3' 47.3400" W
Cle Elum, WA United States

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
September 2026
Sep 26
September 26, 2026
Cle Elum Lake,
47° 15' 10.0800" N 121° 3' 47.3400" W
Cle Elum, WA United States
August 2027

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.

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Relive Past Articles

Chicxulub Asteroid Tsunami ‘Megaripples’

In what may be the most dramatic mass extinction in Earth’s history, an asteroid impacted our planet 66 million years ago near what is now Chicxulub on the Yucatan Peninsula. The resulting hellscape extinguished 75 percent of then living species – including all non-avian dinosaurs. Over the last few years, scientists

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The Columbia River Gorge Eagle Creek Fire – Ruin or Renewal?

I’ve found there is huge public interest and concern about the catastrophic effects of the Eagle Creek Fire on the Columbia River Gorge. Pictures of ridgeline after ridgeline enveloped in bright orange fire, trees bursting into towering flames, and the choking smoke that filled valleys throughout the Pacific Northwest are

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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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Indigenous Flood Stories from 14,000 Years Ago

On October 7th at Chief Timothy Park near Clarkston, WA at the latest Confluence Story Gathering,  Thomas Morning Owl (Umatilla tribe) noted there are indigenous people’s stories of massive floods going back to 14,000 years ago. While he didn’t elaborate, it would be very interesting to have these stories shared as first-hand

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ESA Maps a Lava Tube for Moon and Mars Expeditions

With all deference to the book and movie “The Martian”, wouldn’t you, as part of an interplanetary expedition, prefer to be protected from the radiation, micro-meteorites and extreme temperature fluctuations of the Moon or Martian surface? Though some of the hazards depicted in “The Martian” are way over-dramatized (the thin

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Killer Floods – A New Nova Video on PBS

Discover how colossal floods transformed the ancient landscape. All over the world, scientists are discovering traces of ancient floods on a scale that dwarfs even the most severe flood disasters of recent times. What triggered these cataclysmic floods, and could they strike again? In the Channeled Scablands of Washington State,

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Hydraulic Modeling of a Missoula Flood

Chris Goodell’s 1-hour video presentation of his Ice Age Flood hydraulic modeling is both enlightening and thought provoking. Chris is a hydraulic modeling professional for Kleinschmidt Group, whose personal interest in the Ice Age Floods phenomenon led him to privately undertake HEC-RAS modeling of a possible Ice Age Flood hydraulic

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