
Sarah Nance – Geologic Data Artist
I’m an artist using scientific data as an artistic medium





I’m an artist using scientific data as an artistic medium

New analysis of a 14,000-year-old woolly mammoth tusk has pieced

A summary for our members and other interested people By

Hello from the Trail. Congress created Ice Age Floods National

NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTS SOME EARLY AMERICANS MAY HAVE TRAVELED ON

Many of history’s major breakthroughs were made by great thinkers

If you have been following Professor Nick Zentner (CWU) on

Ice Age Floods A to Z by Nick Zentner Our

Nestled in the heart of Washington state, the Drumheller Channels

Because of problems with the Zoom broadcast of the Erratics’

Last week, Friends of the Columbia Gorge completed installation on

In the early days, the IAFI and National Geologic Trail

Non-members of IAFI have been increasingly taking advantage of our

Scenic Rowena Crest and the Tom McCall Preserve area provide

Consuelo Larrabee, a beloved member of the Ice Age Floods
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We offer indoor Presentations, especially popular when heat or cold make outdoor Field Trips too uncertain or uncomfortable. Many Presentations are available via Zoom.
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In March, while visiting San Diego, I went to the San Diego Museum of Natural History in Balboa Park and toured the remarkable Cerutti Mastodon Site exhibit. This controversial exhibit of a mastodon site is notable for its claim that the mastodon’s bones were broken by humans 130,000 years ago,

Robert Frost finished his poem “The Road Not Taken” with this verse: I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. As our President Gary Ford has

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

Lake Missoula filled many times and emptied catastrophically in many Missoula Floods. Rhythmite sequences [a series of repeated beds of similar origin] at numerous localities provide this evidence: slack-water rhythmites in backflooded tributary valleys below the dam indicate multiple floods, and varved rhythmites in Lake Missoula attest to multiple fillings

“Beneath Our Feet: Mapping the World Below” plumbs the depths of the question, “What’s beneath our feet?” through maps, images and archaeological artifacts. The exhibition explores nearly 400 years of maps and objects in an attempt to find out why and how humans imagine subterranean landscapes including caves, mines and

Have you ever thought about the how the weight of the ice-age Cordilleran ice sheet might affect the underlying Earth’s crust. There is strong evidence that the crust was depressed hundreds of feet beneath the ice, and since the crust is relatively thin and rigid over a plastic aesthenosphere, that

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

Bruce Bjornstad is at it again with his awesome Ice Age Floodscapes drone videos, this one from Frenchman Coulee. Watch it below and visit his Ice Age Floodscapes YouTube channel.for many more.