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Links to USGS Glacier Sites

USGS Alaska Science Center - Glacier and Snow Program (this site)
     Research studies of Alaska glaciers and South Cascade Glacier, WA

USGS Cascade Volcano Observatory - Glaciers and Glaciations, Ice Sheets, Glacial Lakes, Tuyas, Jökulhlaups, and Glacial Hazards
     Covers Oregon, Washington, and California

USGS Glacier and Landscape Change in Response to Changing Climate
     An introduction to glaciers and climate — with a focus on the glaciers of Alaska.
     Includes repeat photography of many Alaska glaciers, mostly coastal.

USGS Glossary of Glacier Terminology
     USGS Open File Report 2004-1216 (in html format only), photo and text glossary

USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center - Glacier Research
     Glaciers of Glacier National Park, Montana

USGS Washington Water Science Center's - Glaciers and Snowpack Website
     Additional information on South Cascade Glacier, WA and other snow and ice studies.

USGS Water Science for Schools
     Glaciers and icecaps: Storehouses of freshwater
     The Water Cycle: Water Storage in Ice and Snow

USGS Woods Hole Science Center - Glacier Studies Project
     Remote sensing projects:
          Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World
          Coastal-Change and Glaciological Maps of Antarctica

USGS Workshop on long-term monitoring of glaciers of North America and Northwestern Europe,
     USGS Open File Report 98-31, edited by Richard S. Williams, Jr., and Jane G. Ferrigno

Links to Non-USGS Glacier Sites

British Antarctic Survey

Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University

Cold Regions Bibliography Project  (NSF/CRREL/

    Library of Congress)

CRREL, US Army Corps of Engineers, Cold Regions Research

    and Engineering Laboratory

Directory of Polar and Cold Regions Organizations, Scott Polar

    Research Inst., University of Cambridge

ETH Zurich, Glaciology Section, Laboratory for Hydraulics,

    Hydrology and Glaciology

Geophysical Institute, University. of Alaska, Snow, Ice, and

    Permafrost Projects

Glacier Research Group (GRG), Climate Change Research Center,

    University of New Hampshire

Glacier Power, An Earth Sciences Curriculum Element,
    by Donna Sandberg, Alaska Synthetic Aperture Radar Facility
    (ASF), Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks

GLIMS Project (Global Land Ice Monitoring from Space)

Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of

    Colorado at Boulder

International Commission on Snow and Ice (ICSI)

International Glaciological Society  

Mawson Station - Australian Antarctic Division

Mass balance of Arctic Glaciers and Ice sheets in relation to the Climate 

    and Sea level changes (MAGICS) - from the Working Group on Arctic

    Glaciology (WGAG), International Arctic Science Committee (IASC)

National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), University of

    Colorado

National Science Foundation (NSF) - Polar Research

Polar Science Center, APL-UW

Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK

Whistler Networks - Blackcomb Glacier - What is a glacier?

World Data Center A for Glaciology - National Snow and Ice

    Data Center

World Data Centre C (Glaciology) - Scott Polar Research Institute,

    University of Cambridge

University of British Columbia, Glaciology, Garry K.C. Clarke

University of Vermont, Glaciers and the Glacial Ages

University of Washington Glaciology

World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS)