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On June 20th the IAFI Board of Directors had an on-line meeting to plan our activities for the remainder of this year. With the Covid-19 infection rate increasing in many areas because of the easing of restrictions, it seems prudent to focus most of our activities on on-line meetings and presentations. This way we continue to provide educational programs while protecting the health of our members.
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Several chapters are taking different approaches to maintain some degree of member activities during this period, including:
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- Conducting Zoom meetings for chapter members
- Conducting Zoom presentations by invited speakers for chapter members and the general public
- Leading "car caravan" field trips
- Recording and sharing "virtual" field trips
- Emailing ‘Photo of the Week’ to chapter members
- Partnering with other institutions and groups for educational programs
- Installing signs and markers and sharing news announcements with members
- Highway clean-up as a chapter activity while maintaining social distancing
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Watch for notices from chapters and on this website as events are scheduled. We look forward to the time we can resume more in-person activities.
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Do you have a geology question? We might have an answer!
Do you have a geologic fact to share? We have a way to do that!
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Members who want to do a short article, or describe a field trip location of interest, or describe some geologic problem or site, can use our online form to submit a question or write-up to our technical committee for an answer or review before we post it on our Geology Corner page.
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The Lower Columbia Chapter of IAFI in cooperation with the Tualatin Historical Society is maintaining their schedule of monthly meetings during the Covid crisis by inviting speakers to give presentations on Zoom that the chapter then records and posts online. They've sponsored two presentations so far:
May 21, 2020 - Scott Burns on "Antarctic Glaciers"
www.gigaflood.com/Antarctic%20Glaciers%20by%20Scott%20Burns%20mp4.m4v
June 18, 2020 - Rick Thompson on "The Lake Missoula Floods in NW Oregon & SW Washington"
www.gigaflood.com/6-18-20%20Rick%20Thompson%20LCC%20Zoom.m4v
July 16 Dr. Victor R. Baker will present on "Global Megaflood Science". For more information on this presentation email chapter president Rick Thompson at Rick@GigaFlood.com or call Sylvia Thompson at 503-257-0144
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Starting in the late 1960s, an accelerating pace of discovery has revealed that the last major de-glaciation of planet Earth involved a global pattern of huge outbursts of water from the margins of wasting continental ice sheets. Much of this water was delivered as relatively short-duration floods with peak flows comparable to those of ocean currents.
The global inventory of these phenomena now includes about 4 dozen examples from Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Iceland. Though there have been many advances in understanding the physical processes and geochronology of megaflooding, important controversies remain, including: the role of flooding on areas that are now under the oceans; the nature of subglacial megaflooding; and the details of the vast network of megaflood landscape features in Asia. Immense outburst floods likely induced very rapid, short-term effects on the global Earth environment.
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Are you looking for new geology videos? Nick Zentner has done a long series of "Nick at Home" live geology lectures from his home in Ellensburg and posted them online to his YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/GeologyNick/videos
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Join Nick as he explores the geology of the Pacific NW and many other topics.
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If you love exploring in Washington, you’re probably at least somewhat curious about its past. And with plenty of documented historic and archaeological sites statewide, you can definitely learn quite a bit by exploring some of our old ruins at the same time you are exploring the Ice Age Floods story. Check out these spots.
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Columbia Hills State Park - The next time you’re up for a hike with a side of history, just head to Columbia Hills Historical State Park, located on the banks of the Columbia River near Dallesport. This 3,637-acre camping park is full of natural wonders.
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While the scenery here is breathtaking, the park is also full of ancient pictographs and petroglyphs hidden on a cliffside perch and paths through the park are lined with information on some of these pictographs and petroglyphs. It's a great place to learn about local history while getting some good exercise.
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You'll also see the remnants of old ranch equipment scattered across the park. It's also home to Horsethief Butte, a favorite among climbers of all abilities. You can see it all on the 10-mile trail that takes you through the best scenery. Between the hiking trails, stunning scenery, and pieces of the past, this park has something for everyone.
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Hanford High School - this concrete structure, built in 1916, is one of six buildings with ruins remaining on the old Hanford nuclear site. Hanford was a small town in Benton County, Washington. The federal government condemned Hanford and residents were given a thirty-day eviction notice on March 9, 1943, to make way for the Hanford Nuclear Site. Most buildings were razed, with the exception of the former Hanford High School.
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The remains of the Bachelor Officers' Quarters at Fort Spokane Military Reservation are in the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area. The military fort was closed in 1898, but it's now a beautiful historic site.
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Maryhill Stonehenge is an ode to the real thing. Dedicated July 4, 1918 as a memorial to those who died in World War I, this "ruins replica" is now part of the Maryhill Museum of Art.
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Maryhill Museum of Art - Originally built as a mansion for entrepreneur Samuel Hill (1857-1931). it was intended to be used as a home at which they could entertain Samuel Hill's school friend King Albert I of Belgium. Hill imagined the structure as a ranch building amidst a 5,300-acre agricultural community that he was developing at the eastern end of the Columbia River Gorge.
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During a 1917 visit by his friend Loïe Fuller, he decided to turn his unfinished home into “a museum for the public good, and for the betterment of French art in the far Northwest of America.” The unfinished museum building was dedicated on November 3, 1926 by Queen Marie of Romania, and was opened to the public on Hill's birthday (May 13) in 1940.
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Geologist, Dr. Chad Pritchard, explores the gas expansion phenomenon that powered the May 18, 1980 Mt. St. Helens plinian eruption. Of course, not everyone has a supply of liquid nitrogen to experiment with -- and that's probably a good thing. Enjoy! Click here to view
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Ice Age Floods Institute (IAFI) is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, non-profit educational organization (EIN 91-1658221), founded in 1995 and recognized as an official authority on the Ice Age Floods, providing accurate, scientific-based advice to members and the public. We were instrumental in 2009 Federal legislation authorizing National Park Service designation of the
Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail (IAFNGT).
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