Talk: Glaciers, Graduates, and Geospatial Science

Glaciers, Graduates, and Geospatial Science: Planning for an Uncertain Future while Engaging Students in Scientific Research

By Jacki Klancher

March 2, 2023
Noon – 1 p.m.
Free

Join us for our March Lunchtime Expedition, Glaciers, Graduates, and Geospatial Science: Planning for an Uncertain Future While Engaging Students in Scientific Research – the CWC Interdisciplinary Climate Change Expedition (ICCE), presented by Jacki Klancher of Central Wyoming College and the National Outdoor Leadership School.

The in-person talk takes place in the Center’s Coe Auditorium, with a virtual option available.

If you prefer to join us online, you may register in advance via Zoom webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xbno0WRzROe-xArGoT7EkQ

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

About the presentation

In 2014, Central Wyoming College faculty Jacki Klancher and twor colleagues began leading students on remote field expeditions in Wyoming through a program called ICCE – the Interdisciplinary Climate Change Expedition. This program combines hands-on field research and education in glacier, geospatial archaeological, and environmental science with high elevation wilderness travel. In her presentation Klancher shares the ICCE Glacier research, its role in engaging undergraduate students, and next steps for the research and the program.

About the speaker

Jacki Klancher has been leading mountain expeditions since the early 1990s through her work with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) based in Lander, Wyoming. In 2014, she began combining backcountry travel with scientific research. Over the past decade Klancher has worked with a number of critical partners to design research expeditions for undergraduates across the globe—from Wyoming, to Tanzania, and most recently to Everest Base Camp. Though the destinations are distant from each other, the complex challenges facing high elevation environments are not dissimilar. Klancher plans to continue to document changes in alpine environments and share her work with students and the public.

Upcoming Lunchtime Expeditions

• April 6: Yellowstone Cutthroat Troutin the Bighorn Basin by Joe Skorupski
• May 4: Functional Traits Underlie Specialist-generalist Strategies in Whitebark Pine and Limber Pine
• June 1: Golden Eagle Monitoring and Research in Yellowstone National Park
• July 6: The Future of Forests in Greater Yellowstone in a Warmer World with More Fire
• August 3: Dinosaur Paleontology in the Bighorn Basin

Support for the Draper’s Lunchtime Expedition series has been made possible by Sage Creek Ranch and the Nancy-Carroll Draper Charitable Foundation.