QRC Research
Drilling ice at Mt. Waddington, British Columbia
QRC Faculty and students engage in a broad range of research projects involving field, laboratory, and theoretical studies. Research has been carried out on every continent, in a variety of natural environments. Examples include the following (check individual faculty web pages for the most up to date research):
- Coupling of climate, erosion, and tectonics in the Himalaya, Andes, and other mountain ranges
- Climate variability and dynamics of the Antarctic ice sheet
- Glacial and periglacial processes
- Archaeological investigations in the Kuril Islands
- Prehistoric tsunamis in Kamchatka, Puget Sound and around the Pacific Rim
- Terrestrial environments as analogs for interpreting Martian landforms
- Environmental history of Puget Sound rivers
- History and status of Pacific salmon