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June 14, 2018
Coutts Ice Cap, Baffin Island Fragmentation
Coutts Ice Cap in Landsat images from 1986 and 2017. The terminus location of the main glacier terminating in the large lake is indicated by dots. Tributary Glaciers 1-6 represent locations where glaciers have separated or a glacier has retreated from a lake. Coutts Ice Cap is on between Coutts Inlet to the west and Buchan Gulf to the east on the north shore of Baffin Island near its northeastern …
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.