STUDY ABROAD – INNSBRUCK AUSTRIA Open to all majors and all class ranks  Water Resources and Climate in the European Alps (4 hours – 3 hour lecture / 1 hour lab) o Offered during UA Summer Interim/UT Mini (Depart 06 May – Return 23 May 15) o Counts as a Natural Sciences (N) elective or General Engineering Tech Elective  Glaciology and Water Resources and Climate in the European Alps o Depart 06 May – Return 05 Jun 15 o 8 hours total credit and Glaciology counts as a Natural Sciences (N) elective  Email Glenn Tootle ([email protected]) or visit http://gatootle.weebly.com STUDY ABROAD – INNSBRUCK AUSTRIA (with trips to neighboring Germany and Italy) The 2015 Summer Abroad Innsbruck Austria course(s) are open to all students and all majors. We will have students from both the University of Alabama (UA) and the University of Tennessee (UT). Water Resources and Climate: European Alps (4 hours – 3 hours lecture and 1 hour lab): This course is taught during the UA Summer Interim and the UT Summer Mini. Non‐engineering students will receive four hours of Natural Science (N) credit while engineering students may receive four hours of technical general elective credit or professional elective credit. Please note, for engineering students to receive elective credit you must be a junior or senior, otherwise, you can receive natural sciences credit. See Glenn for more details. The course is based in Innsbruck, Austria and partners with faculty from the University of Innsbruck which has approximately 25K students. We stay at the Hotel Weisses Kreuz located in the historic city center. Students are placed in double rooms with a private bathroom, TV and wireless internet. Breakfast (free) is provided daily from 0700‐1000 and the hotel provides a room for lectures which begin at around 1015. This hotel is fabulous! Mozart stayed there! Right in the middle of the historic district….a short walk to everything…on a cobblestone pedestrian only road. Now…..these courses are not about sitting inside a room as we spend about as much time seeing the Alps as we do lectures. This course will include field trips to Neuschwanstein Castle (southern Germany), Tirol Castle (Meran, Italy), Eisrieswelt Werfen Austria (World's Largest Ice Caves), Salzburg Austria (Hellbrunn Water Works), University of Innsbruck Alpine Research Center in Obergurgl Austria (Tree Coring), Zugspitze (Highest Mountain in Germany, 2962 meters) and Stubaier Glacier (Austria). Glaciology (4 hours – 3 hours lecture and 1 hour lab): You may extend your stay and obtain an additional (4) hours by taking Glaciology. Students will receive four hours of Natural Science (N) credit. Tuition IS INCLUDED in the course fee!!! Again, you get your room, free breakfast daily, local cell phone, mixers and some fantastic field trips. The only additional costs are your flight and lunch/dinner/fun money! Here is some more information on where we stay and where we are going:  Hotel Weisses Kreuz (Innsbruck, Austria), http://www.weisseskreuz.at/en/index.php  Neuschwanstein Castle (Fussen, Germany), http://www.neuschwanstein.de/englisch/palace/  Tirol Castle (Meran, Italy), http://www.schlosstirol.it/en/home/  Eisriesenwalt Ice Caves (Werfen, Austria), http://www.eisriesenwelt.at/  Helbrunn Water Works (Salzburg, Austria), http://www.hellbrunn.at/en/  Zirbenwald tree‐coring site (Obergurgl, Austria), http://www.uz‐obergurgl.at/english/  Zugspitze (highest point in Germany), http://www.zugspitze.de/en/summer/index.htm  Stubaier Glacier (Austria), http://www.stubaier‐gletscher.com/en/summer/ The schedule is provided below and you can contact Glenn at [email protected] or http://gatootle.weebly.com. Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 6‐May‐15 7‐May‐15 8‐May‐15 9‐May‐15 10‐May‐15 11‐May‐15 12‐May‐15 13‐May‐15 14‐May‐15 15‐May‐15 16‐May‐15 17‐May‐15 18‐May‐15 19‐May‐15 20‐May‐15 21‐May‐15 22‐May‐15 23‐May‐15 24‐May‐15 25‐May‐15 26‐May‐15 27‐May‐15 28‐May‐15 29‐May‐15 30‐May‐15 31‐May‐15 1‐Jun‐15 2‐Jun‐15 3‐Jun‐15 4‐Jun‐15 5‐Jun‐15 Students Depart US Students Arrive Innsbruck Zugspitze (Germany) ‐ Glacier Tour Lecture ‐ Introduction / Examing Hydrologic & Climatic Datasets, Welcome Mixer Fussen (Germany) Lecture ‐ Glacier Area Change using Remote Sensed Datasets Werfen Austria (Ice Caves) Salzburg Austria (Hellbrunn Water Works) Lecture ‐ Glacier Mass (Volume) Change using Empirical Methods, Pizza Mixer Lecture ‐ Introduction to Dendrochronology, Cross dating, Field Techniques (Part I) Lecture ‐ Introduction to Dendrochronology, Cross dating, Field Techniques (Part II) Meran, Italy (Castle Tirol) Tree Ring Cross Dating Lecture ‐ Tree Ring Pattern Recognition and Skeleton Plots (Part I) Lecture ‐ Tree Ring Pattern Recognition and Skeleton Plots (Part II) / Lecture ‐ Introduction & Glacier Basics Lecture ‐ University of Innsbruck Visit, Final Presentations / Lecture ‐ Glacier Physical Properties Obergurgl Austria (Zirbenwald Tree Ring coring site), Farewell Mixer Stubaier Glacier (Austria) Field Trip CE 470/270 Students Depart Innsbruck (Holiday) Holiday Holiday Holiday Lecture ‐ Glacier Mass Balance Lecture ‐ Glacier Mass Balance with Lab Lecture ‐ Glacier Energy Balance Lecture ‐ Glacier Energy Balance with Lab Lecture ‐ Glacier Ice Flow Lecture ‐ Glaciers and Climate Change I Lecture ‐ Glaciers and Climate Change II with Lab Lecture ‐ Glacier Impacts on Water Supply with Lab Lecture ‐ Final Presentations Students Depart