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January 27, 2013
Gold Rush Glacier Retreat, Alaska
The headwaters of Porcupine Creek in the Haines Borough of southeast Alaska is an unnamed glacier. Gold Rush Glacier is the name applied here, since there are many Porcupine Creek’s in Alaska but only one featured on the excellent Discovery Channel show Gold Rush. Gold Rush Glacier is comprised of an eastern and western glacier that in 1986 joined at the terminus. The glacier begins amid a series of peaks …
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.