Courses and Students			Joel Harper Department of Geosciences, University of Montana
Courses taught
- Climate Change - Past and Future (Geos 108-N) - Snow Ice and Climate (Geos 488) - Topics in Cryospheric Sciences (Geos 588) - Essentials of Academic Research (Geos 595)
Students and their research topics
Current graduate students Daniel West (M.S.) Firn densificationin the percolation zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet (West Greenland) Adam Clark (M.S.) Summer runoff from glaciers in Glacier Nationa Park (Glacier National Park, MT). Blase Reardon (M.S.) Controls on the mass balance of a small mountain glacier (Glacier National Park, MT) Toby Meierbachtol (Ph.D.) Borehole studies of subglacial hydrology of the Greenland Ice Sheet (Greenland) Zack Seligman (Ph.D.) Sensativity of the northern Rockies high mountain snowpack to climate change (model space, Bitterroot Mnts, MT) Also working closely with Joel Brown (Ph.D.) at Boise State on radar measurements of firn densification in Greenland. Past students Bonnie Gillan (M.S.) Numerical simulation of basin-scale snowmelt timing (Model space) Toby Meierbachtol (M.S.) Borehole measurement of dynamic basal drainage adjustments during sliding accelerations: Bench Glacier, Alaska (Alaska). Jessica Bleha (M.S.) Development and application of a MODIS driven snowmelt model, Northerwest Montana (Glacier National Park) Jonathan Reeve (M.S.) Role of moulins in subglacial hydrology (Alaska). Joel Brown (M.S.) Englacial scattering of radio waves in temperate ice (Montana, Alaska). David Schuler (B.S.) Distribution of basal shear stress in a valley glacier (Alaska). Naython Taylor (B.S.) Short term velocity variations of Sperry Glacier (Glacier National Park, MT) Warm and having fun but surrounded by students working hard in cold places.
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