LAB 10: GLACIAL PROCESSES, LANDFORMS, & INDICATORS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
GENERAL INFORMATION
Woolly Mammoths are discussed here in articles by Sue Bishop and Philip R. Burns.
GLACIAL PROCESSES & LANDFORMS
Canadian Ice Service has abundant information on ice and glaciers, including many hotlinks to related sites.
National Snow & Ice Data Center provides information about snow cover and avalanches, glaciers and ice sheets, floating ice, ground ice and permafrost, atmospheric ice, ice cores, paleoglaciology, and even extra-terrestrial ices!
Glacial Geology at UC is the homepage maintained by Thomas Lowell for a course on glacial geology at University of Cincinnati. There are lecture notes, images, links to other sites, late breaking news, and even a recipe for a small glacier.
Glaciology at UBC provides results of research on glaciers that has been conducted by faculty and students at University of British Columbia, including the monitoring of Trapridge Glacier since 1969.
Visualization of Glacier Changes from Landsat Data has excellent satellite images of Alaskan glaciers and brief discussions of how Landsat images are used to monitor changes in the glaciers.
Glacier Bay National Park site is a traveler's guide that begins with interesting information about glaciers of the region.
Surge of Bering Glacier, the world's largest glacier other than the Greenland or Antarctic ice sheets, is described in this abstract with links to images of the glacier and a movie of the surge. An additional report on this surge by Bruce Molnia is provided by the American Geophysical Union.
GLACIERS AS INDICATORS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Glacier Fluctuations are described as indicators of climate change on this Geoindicators page.
Frozen Ground Activity is also described as an indicator of climate change on the Geoindicators site.
Fire & Ice is Whistler Resort's informative guide to the glaciers of Blackcomb Mountain, British Columbia. There is basic information about how glaciers form and about glaciers as nature's thermometers. There is also a page of Cool Glacier Facts.
Satellite Image Atlas of the World discusses how the world's glaciers react to changes in regional and global climate.
Less snow, smaller glaciers, thinner ice are phenomena described in these news reports and research summaries listed by Greenpeace.
Global Change Research projects of the U.S. Geological Survey are summarized here for cold regions research. Some of the projects consider the relationships between glaciers and climate.
Snow, Ice, and Permafrost is a University of Alaska--Fairbanks site with information on methods used to study glaciers plus specific information on the response of McCall Glacier to climate warming in the Arctic.
Benchmark glaciers used to monitor climate in Alaska is discussed on this site devoted to U.S. Geological Survey programs in Alaska.
LINKS ON SPECIFIC LOCATIONS DISCUSSED IN THIS LABORATORY
Glaciers on Mt. Rainier is a U.S. Geological Survey fact sheet on the Mt. Rainier glaciers, including Nisqually Glacier.
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