QRC Research
Snoqualmie river valley from the top of Mt. Si. The city of North Bend was at the edge of a glacial delta. Glaciation covered much of western Washington 10,000 years ago forming the Puget Sound as well as U-shaped valleys all around the Puget sound area.
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. Ongoing projects include:
- Coupling of climate, erosion, and tectonics in the Himalaya, Andes, and other mountain ranges
- Stable isotope records from Greenland and Antarctic ice cores
- 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.
Climate Modeling
Atmospheric Circulation and Mountain
Orography
Gerard Roe
Antarctica
Rock Glacier Surface Motion in Beacon Valley,
Antarctica, from Synthetic-Aperture Radar Interferometry
Bernard Hallet
Stability of Land Surfaces
in the Dry Valleys, Antarctica: Insights based on the Dynamics of Sub-Surface
Ice and Sand Wedge Polygons
Jaakko Putkonen
The Arctic
Diagnosis of NOx and HNO3 air snow transfer
chemistry at Summit, Greenland
Eric Steig
Southeast Alaska MARGINS Research,
A Prime Candidate Allied Area for the NSF MARGINS
Program
John M. Jaeger and Bernard Hallet
Soil Thermal Processes and Active
Layer near Ny Alesund, Spitsbergen
Jaakko Putkonen
Central Asia
Collaborative Research: Geodynamics
of Indentor Corners
Bernard Hallet
Geomorphic-Geodynamic Coupling at the
Orogen Scale: A Himalayan Transect in Central Nepal
Jaakko Putkonen
North America
Blame North America megafauna extinction on
climate change, not human ancestors
Don Grayson
How Warming Affected Some Mammals In The
Distant Past
Don Grayson
Studying the Western Great Basin using
Remote Sensing Technology
Alan Gillespie
Mount St. Helens and Mima Mounds
Tour
Ron Sletten
Recent glacier and climate variations
in the Pacific Northwest
Stephen Porter
Soils
and Land Use in the Puget Sound Basin
Ron Sletten
Schreger Angle Analysis of the Kirkland/Lakeview
Elementary School Tusk: Mammoth or Mastodon?
Bax R. Barton
Late Quaternary Vegetation Associated
with the Kirkland/Lakeview Elementary School Mammoth Site, Puget Lowland,
Washington
Bax R.Barton
Geologic evidence of earthquakes at the Snohomish delta, Washington,
in the past 1200 years
Jody
Bourgeois and Samuel Y. Johnson
Northeast Asia
The (Non)-Glacial and Sea Level History
of Wrangel Island, Northeast Siberia
Lyn Gualtieri
Methods, Examples, and Summary Data for Kamchatka Palaeotsunamis
Tatiana Pinegina and Jody
Bourgeois.
Prehistoric Tsunamis on the Kronotsky Bay Coast, Kamchatka, Russia
Tatiana Pinegina and Jody
Bourgeois.
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