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September 26, 2013
Baird Glacier Retreat Initiation, Alaska
Sept. 2015 Landsat Image. Note icebergs in new lake as Baird Glacier begins retreat. This article was written in 2013. A new image from 2015 has been added above indicating further retreat of the terminus and lake development at the terminus as was postulated would happen in 2013. Baird Glacier drains the west side of the Stikine Icefield in southeast Alaska. It is the only glacier of the Stikine Iceifield …
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.