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January 19, 2012
Sortebrae Retreat, East Greenland
The Sortebrae is a surge type tidewater calving glacier on the Geikie Peninsula of East Greenland. Surge type glaciers do not have a steady ice flow, they have non-steady ice flow where longer quiescent periods of slower flow are punctuated by short periods of faster flow. The glacier is comprised of a number of tributaries (A-D) some of which drain the main Greenland Ice Sheet (E). Sortebrae surged in the …
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.