You are browsing the archive for Nooksack glacier melt Archives - From a Glacier's Perspective.
November 19, 2018
35th Annual Field Observations of North Cascade Glaciers
The 2018 field season observations, conditions and summary. Field team Mariama Dryak, Erin McConnell, Jill Pelto and Mauri Pelto. For the 35th consecutive year I headed to the North Cascade Range, Washington to monitor the response of glaciers to climate change. Two of the glaciers the North Cascade Glacier Climate Project (NCGCP) monitors are now part of the 42 glaciers comprising the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) reference glacier network, …
December 11, 2015
Climate Driven Retreat of Mount Baker Glaciers and Changing Water Resources
We have spent 300 nights in a tent just on this mountain collecting data from 1984-2015 in this study that the book documents. This post has the same title as a book released last month as part of the Springer Briefs in Climate Studies series. The nice thing about publishing research emerging from 30 years of field research in a book is that I had a chance to include 104 …
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.