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August 19, 2023
Hall Peninsula Ice Cap, Baffin Island Retains No Snowcover in 2023 Fosters Fragmentation
Hall Peninsula Ice Cap east of Popham Bay is snow free on 8-14-2023. Comparison of Landsat images from 2014 and 2023 arrows indicate four locations where the ice cap is fragmenting and at each Point D is an emerging/expanding bedrock area amidst the ice cap. Hall Peninsula is host to many glaciers and ice caps, almost all unnamed. Here we examine the largest ice cap on the Peninsula using Landsat …
July 1, 2019
Fork Beard Glacier, Baffin Island High June 2019 Temperatures and Snowline
Fork Beard (F) and Nerutusoq Glacier (N) Baffin Island on June 1, 2019, June 18, 2019 Sentinel images and June 30 Landsat image. Purple dots indicate the snowline. Fork Beard Glacier (F) is an outlet glacier of a mountain glacier complex just southeast of Penny Ice Cap on Baffin Island. Nerutusoq Glacier (N) also drains from the same complex. Here we examine the rapid rise of the snowline from June …
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.