This site brings the decades of scholarship behind the Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail to a national audience for the first time , and adds the immersive 360°, drone, and 3D layer that the existing platforms were never built to host.
The Ice Age Floods Institute keeps its scholarly authority and its existing sites. This project surfaces that work, fully attributed, and carries the operational weight so they don’t have to.
The immersive, map-driven public home of the trail , integrating IAFI’s data and adding field capture across four states.
Every site, erratic, and field note links back to its source. The science stays theirs; the presentation and capture are ours.
It does not replace iceagefloods.org or iafi.org, and it asks nothing of IAFI’s staff.
No webmaster to hire, no infrastructure to run. The model mirrors lewisandclarkresearch.org and the Lewis & Clark Trust.
A clean division of labor that lets each side do what it does best, with no overlap and no burden passed across.
Chapter content, geologic research, and the organizing body of the trail community.
Owns and runs the domain and the immersive layer. Field capture, hosting, and upkeep.
Walk an entire trail step by step in the browser, looking any direction.
The flood geometry from above , the shapes the ground can’t show you.
Photogrammetry of boulders and rock faces, rotated and scaled in-browser.
Formats that travel to a screen in a visitor center or a school, online or off.
For partnership, attribution, capture scheduling, or to see the live preview in a screen-share , we’ll come to you.