Kenai Fjords Mapping

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Terminus mapping is a great way to map a small portion of the icefield. We come out twice a year, and we use a GPS to walk the edge of the terminus and map the farthest extent of Exit Glacier, and that allows us to see what type of changes are occuring over the winter accumulation period and the summer ablation period. With that data, that can help us—as we witness these changes within the ice field, we can hopefully be able to correlate that with the weather data that we have. At Exit Glacier, we have a time-lapse camera set up on the glacier that allows us to take a couple photos every single day and then to put that sequence of photos into a video where we can see changes of the glacier and the vegetation phenology throughout an entire year.

In a lot of parts of the country, climate change issues are a little more subtle, and we can point here and say, look how fast this is changing, this is what the future holds for perhaps a lot of us, and a lot of the planet, as climate continues to change.

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Kenai Fjords Mapping

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1 minute, 10 seconds

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