You are browsing the archive for Cordillera Darwin glacier melt Archives - From a Glacier's Perspective.
May 27, 2020
Darwin Glacier, Chile 1986-2020 Retreat Opens New Fjord Arm
Darwin Glacier in Landsat images from 1986 and 2020. Red arrow indicates 1986 terminus location, yellow arrow 2020 terminus location, purple dots the snowline. Point 1,2 and 3 indicate the same specific location. Darwin Glacier flows east from the main divide of the Cordillera Darwin entering the head of Fjord Parry. Here we examine changes illustrated by Landsat images from 1986-2020. Melkonian et al (2013) note widespread thinning of four large glaciers …
December 26, 2018
Videla Glacier Retreat, Tierra del Fuego, Chile Generates New and Expanding Lakes
Videla Glacier, Chile in 1997 and 2018 Landsat images. Red dots mark the 1997 terminus locations, yellow dots the 2018 terminus position and purple dots the snowline. Videla Glacier is a land terminating glacier in the northwest portion of the Cordillera Darwin Icefield (CDI). The glacier has terminates in several expanding proglacial lakes each in front of a different tongue of the glacier. The glacier flows northwest from Cerro Ambience …
September 7, 2017
Ventisquero Grande Glacier, Chile Retreats; Not so Grande in 2017
Ventisquero Grande Glacier comparison in Landsat images from 1997 and 2017. Red arrows mark the 1997 terminus, yellow arrows the 2017 terminus, purple dots the snowline and purple arrow the junction of the tributaries. Ventisquero Grande Glacier is at the head of Ventisquero Seno in the Cordillera Darwin of Tierra del Fuego. The fjord is just west of Garibladi Fjord and opens into Darwin Channel. Melkonian et al (2013) note widespread thinning of four large …
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.