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Columbia Glacier, September 2005 |
Columbia
Glacier Information and Images
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The movement of glaciers and climatically-induced adjustments
of glacier geometry and flow regime are critical elements in understanding
paleoclimate records derived from ice
cores, drawing inferences about past climate through glacial geology, and
forecasting future glacier and sea level responses to (and interaction with)
climate change. Glaciers are also an important water resource in mountainous
and high latitude regions, and forecasts of future water resources for large
parts of The Glaciology Group is
a focus area within the INSTAAR Geophysics Research Group. The Glaciology
group is composed of faculty, post-doctoral researchers, and graduate and
undergraduate students who are actively involved with research on glaciers,
ice sheets, sea level and snow cover. Research interests include ice-flow
dynamics and calving, sub-glacial and englacial
hydrology, sea level change as controlled by the earth's small glaciers,
climate change and glacier mass balance, heat exchange within snow packs. |
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