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May 30, 2016
Tingmiarmit Glacier Retreat Separates Tributaries, South East Greenland
Tingmiarmit Glacier comparison in 1999 and 2015 Landsat images indicating the separation of tributaries at the terminus. The red arrows indicate the 1999 terminus and the yellow arrows the 2015 terminus location. Point A is peninsula where the tributaries joined, and Point B is a nunatak just upglacier from the 2015 terminus. Tingmiarmit Glacier (Timmiarmiit also) ends in the Tingmiarmit Kangertivat Fjord in southeast Greenland. The glacier is just south of …
March 25, 2012
Epiq Sermia retreat, Greenland
Epiq Sermia comparsion in 1999 and 2017 Landsat images. The main terminus retreated 1500 m on the north and 1300 m on the south side of the terminus. The area of the nunatak at Point A has expanded. There is limited change in the medial moraine at Point B. The margin of the glacier at Point C at the proglacial lake indicates a 600 m retreat. At Point D between …
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.