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March 7, 2016
Coronation Island Glacier Retreat, South Orkney Islands
Lewis Glacier (S) and Sunshine Glacier (S) on Coronation Island in 1990 and 2015. Red arrow is 1990 terminus location and yellow arrow the 2015 terminus location. Sunshine and Lewis Glacier are tidewater glaciers on the south side of Coronation Island in the South Orkney Islands. This is an area of excessive cloud cover leading to few available satellite images illustrating glacier change. A map of the glaciers from 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.