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March 14, 2016
Volta Glacier New Zealand Losing Lower Volta section
Comparison of Volta Glacier in 2001 and 2016. Yellow arrow is the 2016 terminus position and the red arrow the NZ topo map terminus location. Purple arrows indicate upglacier thinning and orange arrows regions of avalanching onto the lower Volta Glacier. Volta Glacier drains northeast from Mount Aspiring entering the Waiatoto River. This region is 60 km south of the main region of glaciers around Mount Cook. The glacier is …
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.