Glaciers in the News
6/17/2003 Record Snowpack Measured May 2003 On Gulkana Glacier, East-Central Alaska Range, Alaska
9/3/2002
As Glacier Warms, Glaciers
Stage a Ferocious Dance by Michael Parrish, The New York Times
8/16/2002 -
Second-Largest Glacial Flood
Worldwide in Historic Times Occurs as Russell Lake Glacier Dam Ruptures - USGS News Release
6/18/2002
Advancing Glacier Coming Close to Blocking Fiord Near Yakutat, Alaska, USGS News Release (photos available)
6/17/2002 Advancing Glacier
Threatens an Alaskan Fishing Village, The New York Times
6/15/2002 Ice threatens to seal
Russell Fiord by Don Hunter, Anchorage Daily News
6/4/2001 Large Spring Snowpack measured April
2001 on Gulkana Glacier, Alaska
5/10/2001 Surging Glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve Attracts
Media Attention in Alaska
12/30/1999
Earth and Sky - Ice Surges by Eleanor Imster
Award winning daily science radio series (text and
Real Audio available).
12/29/1999
Earth and Sky - Tidewater Glaciers
Award winning daily science radio series (text and
Real Audio available).
12/28/1999
Earth and Sky - Glacial Plumbing by Doug Schneider
Award winning daily science radio series (text and
Real Audio available).
12/27/1999
Earth and Sky - Glacier Studies by Doug Schneider
Award winning daily science radio series (text and
Real Audio available).
11/5/1999
abcNEWS.com - Ice Vanishing on High: Himalayan Glaciers
Melt at Rapid Pace
by Robert Marquand, The Christian Science Monitor
Reference at the end of article to a December satellite
launch by NASA and
USGS is a reference to the the Terra
satellite which was successfully launched
Dec. 18, 1999.
10/5/1998 The Boston Globe - Meltdown. As
Temperatures Climb,
Mighty Glaciers are Shriveling
by Scott Allen
Focus on Alaskan glaciers (Portage, Columbia, Gulkana, Wolverine, and
Matanuska). Comments from glaciologist
Dennis Trabant and World Glacier
Monitoring Service. [Article
accessible through search of archives; suggest
search on "Trabant". A small
fee is charged to access this article online.]
8/25/1998 USA Today - Glacier beats a
harrowing retreat
Focus on Columbia Glacier, Alaska.
Comments from glaciologists, Austin Post, Bob Krimmel, Dennis Trabant,
and Wendell Tangborn. [Article accessible through search of
archives; suggest
users select "1998" and then search on
"Columbia Glacier". Retrieval of
archived articles subject to $1.00 fee.]
8/21/1998
National Public Radio, Talk of the Nation - Sea Level Rise
Host: Ira Flatow with glaciologist guest, Dr. Mark Meier, and
other guests.
(49 min. audio program online in Real Audio
format,
transcripts and tapes of program also
available.)
8/18/1998
The New York Times - As Alaska Melts, Scientists Consider
the
Reasons Why
The newspaper version was titled "Dead Trees and Shriveling
Glaciers as Alaska
Melts". Focus on
Columbia Glacier, Alaska. Comments from glaciologist
William Harrison.
Maintainer: Rod March
Last update:
Wednesday, January 03, 2007 12:46 PM
URL: http://ak.water.usgs.gov/glaciology/glaciers_in_the_news.htm
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