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July 21, 2016
Sjögren Glacier Fast Flow, Fast Retreat, Antarctica
Sjögren Glacier comparison in Landsat images from 2001 and 2016, red dots indicate terminus position, Point A, B, C and D are in fixed locations. Sjögren Glacier flows east from the northern Antarctic Peninsula and prior to the 1980’s was a principal feeder glacier to Prince Gustav Ice Shelf. This 1600 square kilometer ice shelf disintegrated in the mid-1990’s and was gone in 1995 (Cook and Vaughan, 2010). Scambos et al (2014) …
April 28, 2011
Hariot Glacier, ongoing rapid retreat Antarctic Peninsula
Pablo Zenteno in the Dept. of Geography at the University of Chile has called attention to Hariot Glacier is a close neighbor to Fleming Glacier draining the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula into Marguerite Bay. Both glaciers used to feed the Wordie Ice Shelf before it disintegrated between 1970 and 2000. Unlike the Fleming Glacier, Hariot Glacier has a steeper gradient as descends down a a mountain valley to …
Dean of Academic Affairs at Nichols College and Professor of Environmental Science at Nichols College in Massachusetts since 1989. Glaciologist directing the North Cascade Glacier Climate Project since 1984. This project monitors the mass balance and behavior of more glaciers than any other in North America.