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Glacier Links

Introductory Materials

The Anatomy of a Glacier: Read about how glaciers affect the water cycle and the weather on this well illustrated PBS NOVA tour of the Khumbu Glacier and the icefalls on Mount Everest.

Glacier Maker: Learn how to identify the contents of a glacier like those found in Patagonia, construct a miniature glacier model, and compare and contrast your model with Patagonian glaciers. (from PBS and The Living Edens)

Grinnell Glacier Photo Gallery: This web page, hosted by USGS, allows the user to browse before and after pictures demonstrating the changes in this glaciers size over the years in Glacier National Park.

Warnings from the Ice: The NOVA science series on PBS hosts this web page. It provides information on arctic ice and how data collected from the region help to further our understand of the global climate.

Glaciers—Then and Now: A Windows to the Universe Actvity: This activity for grades 4-8 has students compare photographs of glaciers to observe how Alaskan glaciers have changed over the last century.

Advanced Materials

Glacier Image Database: View a collection of photographs of glacier componants and glacier flow compliments of Glacial Geology at UC (University of Cincinnati).

Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World: The USGS Global Change Research Program provides an inventory of the extent of glaciers around the world for the years 1979 to 1981.

Measuring a Moving Glacier: Study of the movement of ice and Earth at the surging Bering Glacier in Alaska using a series of satellites that estimate precise positions on Earth from space (from the American Geophysical Union).