The Yenisei River at Kurtak in Siberia (left thumbnail).  College Students From the Krasnoyarsk Pedagogical University Taking  Break From Geomorphology Fieldwork on Mighty Yenisei River (right thumbnail).

 The vast Yenisei River is the largest river system flowing to the Arctic Ocean, and at 3,445 miles is the fifth longest river in the world.  The middle section, where I was working in a field camp, is largely controlled by some of the largest hydroelectric dams in the world.  The dams attracted industry and the need for a workforce in isolated Siberia.  A steady stream of migration from the populated west following the trans-Siberian railroad and, in-part, gulag labor filled this need during Soviet times.  Industrial contamination remains a serious problem on the Yenisei in an area that is hard to monitor due to its remoteness.   While walking along the banks of the river, studying massive bank failures due to damming, I found many human artifacts such as stone tools, illustrating the long standing important role that the Yenisei played to ancient nomadic people.  If you are wondering, the water was not that cold!

Physical Geography Course Materials, Assignments, and Readings
 

PowerPoint slides of cloud type/identification and atmospheric lift in mechanisms (be able to draw and label  the lifting mechanism on an exam)

Lab: Classifying and Interpreting World Climate - Dichotomous Key to the Koeppen Climatic Classification System

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