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September 10, 2011
Quelccaya Ice Cap Retreat, Peru
Quelccaya Ice Cap is in the of Peru. The first detailed investigations were by Lonnie Thompson at Ohio State examining the ice cap for its potential for ice coring (Thompson, 1980). Three decades later he is still involved in research on this ice cap and others, which combined have yielded one of the finest glacier climate records we have. This is nicely chronicled in Thin Ice by Mark Bowen. This …
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.