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Howdy Ellensburg Ice Age Floods folks - Additional early June activities:Ellensburg Ice Age Floods LECTURE on Thursday, June 3, 2010. 7:00 pm at CWU's Hebeler Hall Auditorium. Portland State Geology Professor Scott Burns will talk about the Missoula Floods and his major rewrite of the popular John Eliot Allen, Marjorie Burns, and Sam Sargent book "Cataclysms on the Columbia". Lots of great visuals from the revised book will be featured, plus he'll have some books for sale! Ellensburg Ice Age Floods FIELD TRIP on Sunday, June 6, 2010. Noon - 5:00 pm. Field Trip to the Upper Kittitas County. Carpool as usual from Hebeler Hall. Field trip will include plenty of interesting geology/geography between Ellensburg and Cle Elum. Karl and Nick will lead this one together. Ellensburg Formation, river terraces, landslides, glacial moraines, and river channel changes. Lots to discuss right in our backyard - Thorp Prairie, Swauk Prairie, Lookout Mountain, etc. For those that miss our Ice Age flood-related trips, we plan to head out to flood country next September and November. Geology of Washington LECTURE on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at Raw Space. 7:00 pm. Nick Zentner lectures on Pleistocene Ice in Washington." |
Perhaps you received an IAFI membership form for 2010 in the mail recently. Are you a member of the Ice Age Floods Institute? Do you attend our meetings and field trips, but have never bothered with a membership? Have you been a member in the past, but are considering not renewing your membership for 2010? To summarize the financial status of our chapter and remind you our philosophy regarding membership and expenses:
We are grateful for past IAFI memberships. The Ellensburg Chapter receives 50% of the cost of your membership. The remaining 50% goes to the IAFI as a whole.
To learn of the IAFI's mission, please click on: http://iafi.org/join.html
As for our humble Ellensburg Chapter, we do our best to provide quality content - lectures and field trips. Ellensburg Chapter Treasurer Tuck Forsythe reports that $1523.93 is our current balance. In 2009, we spent a total of $416.07 on travel costs for speakers ($100), handouts for trips ($39.47), and the purchase of a collection of new books/DVDs ($276.60) on the geology of central Washington now on reserve in the Ellensburg Public Library.
The collection includes:
As always, we welcome all who have interest in the Ice Age Floods. Membership is not required! However, if you would like to help support our activities with this local chapter of the IAFI, we would be appreciative.
Chapter meetings are held in Hebeler Hall room 121 (Click for map)
 April 2010 Is there evidence for Glacial Flood Deposition on the Continental Margin seaward of the Columbia River Mouth Marie Ferland (CWU) February 2010 The Geology of Mars and the Scablands Connection John Buchanan (EWU) December 2009 The Columbia Basin Project: Expectations, Realizations and Implications George Macinko (CWU Emeritus) November 2009 Sentinel Gap Field Trip Nick Zentner (CWU) October 2009 A Brief Overview of the Geologic Evolution of the Columbia River System Terry Tolan (USGS) September 2009 Blewett Pass Field Trip Karl Lillquist (CWU) June 2009 Dry Falls Field Trip Karl Lillquist (CWU) June 2009 Ice Age Floods in the Cheney Area Gen Kiver (EWU Emeritus) April 2009 Drumheller Channels Field Trip Karl Lillquist (CWU) April 2009 The Secret Life of Water in the Yakima Basin Tom Ring (Yakama Nation) February 2009 Landform Change in Kittitas County Marty Kaatz (CWU Emeritus) December 2008 Floods, Floods and Megafloods! Geologic and Climatic Signatures of Paleofloods in the Western U.S. Lisa Ely (CWU) November 2008 Potholes Coulee Field Trip Nick Zentner (CWU)  October 2008 Landscapes of Eastern Washington Don Ringe (CWU Emeritus) August 2008 Cooper Lake Field Trip Karl Lillquist (CWU) and Jack Powell (DNR)  August 2008 History of CWU Geology Dept. and the Ellensburg Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute. Nick Zentner (CWU) June 2008 An Iceberg Graveyard: Ice Age Flood Deposits of the Vantage Area. Ryan Karlson (WA State Parks) June 2008 Table Mountain Field Trip Karl Lillquist (CWU) and Jack Powell (DNR)  Photo by Nick Zentner April 2008 Fire, Ice, & Floods: Iceland as a Contemporary Analog for Columbia Plateau Landscapes. Karl Lillquist (CWU) April 2008 Crab Creek Field Trip Nick Zentner (CWU) and Karl Lillquist (CWU)  Fegruary 2008 The Geologic Evolution of the Columbia River System. Steve Reidel (WSU) December 2007 Ice Age Floods Features Wenatchee and Moses Coulee. Brent Cunderla (BLM) October 2007 Excavations at the Wenas Creek Mammoth Site. Patrick Lubinski (CWU) April 2007 Yakima Canyon Field Trip Nick Zentner (CWU) Jack Powell (DNR)  June 2007 "Geology Exposed by the Ice Age Floods" Jack Powell (DNR) April 2007 Vantage and Frenchman Springs Coulee Field Trip Jack Powell (DNR) and Karl Lillquist (CWU)  April 2007 Exploring the Ice Age Floods Bruce Bjornstad (PNNL) February 2007 NW geology and the Glacial Lake Missoula floods. Tom Foster (TCF), Nick Zentner (CWU) and Karl Lillquist (CWU) |
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Ellensburg Chapter members (and anyone else that wanted to tag along), launch watercraft to explore the Cooper Lake area. Field trip leaders Karl Lillquist (CWU) and Jack Powell (DNR) described general geology of the eastcentral Cascades, the glacial origins of the lake, impacts of global warming on present glaciers upstream of the lake, and recent modification of the lake by fire, flood, debris flow, and avalanche. |
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