Bill Burgel Lecture- Missoula Floods Evidence in the Greater Portland Area

Tualatin Heritage Center 8700 SW Sweek Drive, Tualatin

Bill Burgel will lead you on a 45 minute long travelogue - starting in the Columbia River Gorge and ending south of Tualatin - of all the amazing geology produced by the Missoula Floods. Did you know one of the largest scour pits formed by the floods is right here in Portland? And, why Rockwood […]

Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales: Fossils in Washington State

Zoom Meeting

The Wenatchee Valley Erratics Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute’s next program will be Tuesday, December 12 at 7:00 PM. This is a hybrid program, with the speakers presenting remotely via Zoom from Seattle. For those who are not computer- or Zoom-savvy, you can attend in-person for a screening at the Wenatchee Valley Museum […]

Ice Age Floods Around the World

On 08Jan2024 the Puget Lobe Chapter has Guest Lecturer Dr. Vic Baker presents "Ice Age Floods Around the World".  This presentation will be a "Zoom" (URL https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82985244730.  And in-person at Bellevue College Bldg R, Rm R103.  see map in separate post. There are approximately 24 mega-floods referenced on the maps, of which, #4 is probably […]

JT Pardee and the Lake He Discovered – Talk by Bill Burgel

Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center 127 S. Mission, Wenatchee, WA, United States

The Wenatchee Valley Erratics Chapter’s next program will be Tuesday, February 13 at 7:00 PM. Our speaker will present live at the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center, 127 S. Mission, Wenatchee. There is also a Zoom link so one can watch remotely: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84520197937 Webinar ID: 845 2019 7937. Joseph T. Pardee Bill Burgel is […]

Dr. Scott Burns – Ancient Ice Age Floods Before the Missoula Floods

Tualatin Heritage Center 8700 SW Sweek Drive, Tualatin

Come and Learn About The Unfolding Story of Ancient Ice Age Floods in the Pacific Northwest Ages End - Stev Ominski We have had Ice Age Floods in the Pacific Northwest over the past 2.8 million years. We mostly concentrate on the last ones which are called the Missoula Floods that happened between 15,000-20,000 years […]

Cheney at the Head of Channeled Scablands

Cheney Community Library 610 1st St, Cheney, WA

In this overview, learn about the history of the Channeled Scablands. We look back to around 20,000 years ago at the end of the last glacial maximum and at the formation of two huge, glacially dammed, meltwater glacial lakes—Missoula and Columbia. We explore the subsequent failures of the Lake Missoula ice dam, which resulted in […]

Ice Age Floodscapes of the Pacific Northwest

The Reach Museum 1943 Columbia Park Trl , WA, Richland, WA, United States

Ice Age Floodscapes of the Pacific Northwest: A photographic exploration Geologist and author Bruce Bjornstad will present a bird's eye view of the Ice Age megafloods that impacted the Pacific Northwest as recently as 14,000 years ago and shaped the landscape of the mid-Columbia basin. Bruce's presentation will be a stunning picture show of amazing […]

The Spokane Aquifer: Legacy of the Ice Age Floods

Moran Prairie Library 6004 S Regal St, Spokane, WA

The Spokane Aquifer is a legacy from the giant Ice Age floods that roared through the Spokane Valley, leaving behind a porous, coarse gravel that hosts our communities' water supply. The Aquifer story includes tales of fascinating, unique geologic processes and community historical events that formed and harnessed this resource. Presented by Geologist Michael Hamilton […]

PNW in Brief: The Most Recent Ice Age Floods

Argonne Library 4322 N Argonne Rd, Spokane, WA

During this presentation, we follow the path of the floods from western Montana across the Idaho Panhandle, through the Columbia Basin and Gorge, into the Willamette Valley and finally to the Pacific Ocean. We look at some of the major floods features found within the four-state area-features you can see out your windshield as you […]

Imagined History: Paddling Lake Missoula

North Spokane Library 44 E Hawthorne Rd, Spokane, WA

Follow along on this imaginative look at the period when Lake Missoula was carving out our shrub-steppe scablands. Paul Lindholdt writes environmentally inflected nonfiction and journalism. His 10 books include In Earshot of Water, an ecological memoir that won the Washington State Book Award, The Spokane River, and Interrogating Travel.  Presented by Paul Lindholdt, of […]