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Gulkana Glacier,
Alaska
Program Overview/Why Study Gulkana Glacier?
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Gulkana Glacier,
Oct. 5, 2003.
Photo by Rod March. (click on image for enlargement, 133 KB.) |
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) operates a long-term program to monitor climate,
glacier motion, glacier mass balance, and stream runoff. The data collected are used to
understand glacier-related hydrologic processes and improve the quantitative prediction of
water resources, glacier-related hazards, and the consequences of climate change (Fountain and others, 1997). The approach has been
to establish long-term mass balance monitoring programs at three widely spaced glacier
basins in the United States that clearly sample different climate-glacier-runoff regimes.
Gulkana Glacier is one of these three long-term, high quality mass balance monitoring
sites operated by the USGS. The other monitoring sites are Wolverine Glacier in
south-central Alaska and South Cascade Glacier in
Washington.
Data
Learn About Glaciers - Educational Resources
Common questions and myths about glaciers
Glacier Power, An Earth Sciences Curriculum
Element, by Donna Sandberg,
Alaska Synthetic Aperture Radar Facility (ASF), Geophysical Institute,
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Glaciers in the News
(most recent article Dec. 30, 1999)
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Glaciers from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
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