QRC Research

Snoqalmie River Valley from the top of Mt. Si
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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