Climate change is significantly impacting alpine glaciers around the world. Their response is similar though the water resource impacts vary. Over four decades Dr. Mauri Pelto, Ph.D. Professor at Nichols College, Science Advisory Board at NASA’s Earth Observatory. observed climate change impact on glaciers in the Pacific Northwest, and for three decades the impact on water resources in Central Massachusetts. Our focus will be on visual summaries of these observations and some commonalities to these different verses. He has been an Environmental Science professor at Nichols College since 1989 and is currently an Associate Provost. He is the Director of the North Cascade Glacier Climate Project since 1983 which measures the mass balance of three reference glaciers of the World Glacier Monitoring Service. Responsible for writing the chapter on Alpine Glaciers each year in the State of the Climate report for the Bulletin of American Meteorological Society. Member of Science Advisory Board for NASA Earth Observatory. Author of the American Geophysical Union blog “From a Glaciers Perspective”, writing one article a week on glacier response to climate change.
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