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July 29, 2011
Umiamako Glacier Acceleration and Retreat
Draining the West side of the Greenland Ice Sheet just north of Disko Island, Umiamako Glacier unlike most of the others in the region reaches close to the end of its fjord. The glacier flows 50 km down this fjord, though in the last 10 years this distance has decline sharply. A recent paper by McFadden et al (2011) explores the dynamic changes of this glacier. The glacier was first …
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.