Mauri Pelto-In 2009 after 27 years of working on glaciers and watching the rapid changes they experienced due to global warming, I felt it was time to share the story glacier by glacier from glaciers around the world. Fifteen years later I have written over 1000 blog posts on various glaciers responding to climate change. The story is similar from mountain range to mountain range around the globe, glacier retreat in mountain ranges leading to new lakes and expanding lakes. Glacier retreat in coastal areas leading to lengthening fjords and new islands developing. Glaciers no longer retaining snowpack through the summer, and without an accumulation zone melting away. From 1981-1984 I worked with the Juneau Icefield Research Program that was directed by Maynard Miller. In 1984 I started the North Cascade Glacier Climate Project, which I remain as science director after 40 years. During grad school at the University of Maine I worked on determining the bathymetry of Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica and the volume flux ofJakobshavn Glacier, Greenland. The goal is to bring the story of a different glacier each week, except during our August field season.

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