2004 Girls on Ice: Mt Rainier

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2004 Girls on Ice Mt Rainier
Hands-on scientific research and wilderness
travel for young women
a program offered through the North Cascades
Institute
Erin Pettit Department of Earth and Space Sciences
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Brief History started in 1999 through UW summer
program in collaboration with the USGS 2001 we
joined with the North Cascades Institute the
first courses were run at the South Cascade
Glacier, then Mt Baker this is our 6th course,
and our first year on Mt
Rainier
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Our Philosophy to challenge the girls
physically, intellectually, socially, and
emotionally to encourage their natural curiosity
and inspire their interest in science and the
natural world to teach through inquiry open
ended questions and experimentation rather than
facts
to teach critical thinking skills necessary in
all aspects of life to help them become aware of
the balance between self-reliance and dependence
on a group to empower girls to believe in
themselves and their abilities to give them the
courage to challenge societies stereotypes
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The Future educational long-term monitoring
program for the Emmons Glacier and its valley,
possibly extended to the rest of the mountain
(with contributions from girls on ice other
educational courses, and scientists)
participants can really feel like they are
contributing to the long term project, and our
results can be viewed and used by other
educational programs and other scientists
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the GIS project? 3-D visualization of Mt Rainier
(using the DEM and aerial photography), including
historical data on Emmons glacier terminus
positions, would provide an introduction to the
area and a means for understanding topographic
maps before we leave for the field work We
will be mapping and photographing the glacier
terminus and the alpine valley for local
geomorphological ecological variations (wed need
base maps and methods to input these data into
the database) wed love to have a web based
system for allowing the girls (and other people)
to access the results of the work when they have
returned home wed like to have a method for
including results from our other experiments up
there glacier motion measurements, crevasse
mapping, snow pits, some of these experiments are
designed by the girls. My contact info Erin
Pettit epettit_at_ess.washington.edu