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Glaciers in the News

6/17/2003 Record Snowpack Measured May 2003 On Gulkana Glacier, East-Central Alaska Range, Alaska

9/3/2002 As Glacier Warms, Glaciers Stage a Ferocious Dance by Michael Parrish, The New York Times

8/16/2002 - Second-Largest Glacial Flood Worldwide in Historic Times Occurs as Russell Lake Glacier Dam Ruptures - USGS News Release

6/18/2002 Advancing Glacier Coming Close to Blocking Fiord Near Yakutat, Alaska, USGS News Release (photos available)

6/17/2002 Advancing Glacier Threatens an Alaskan Fishing Village, The New York Times

6/15/2002 Ice threatens to seal Russell Fiord by Don Hunter, Anchorage Daily News

6/4/2001 Large Spring Snowpack measured April 2001 on Gulkana Glacier, Alaska

5/10/2001 Surging Glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve Attracts 
  Media Attention in Alaska

12/30/1999 Earth and Sky - Ice Surges by Eleanor Imster
  Award winning daily science radio series (text and Real Audio available).

12/29/1999 Earth and Sky - Tidewater Glaciers
  Award winning daily science radio series (text and Real Audio available).

12/28/1999 Earth and Sky - Glacial Plumbing by Doug Schneider
  Award winning daily science radio series (text and Real Audio available).

12/27/1999 Earth and Sky - Glacier Studies by Doug Schneider
  Award winning daily science radio series (text and Real Audio available).

11/5/1999 abcNEWS.com - Ice Vanishing on High: Himalayan Glaciers
  Melt at Rapid Pace  by Robert Marquand, The Christian Science Monitor
  Reference at the end of article to a December satellite launch by NASA and 
      USGS is a reference to the the Terra satellite which was successfully launched
      Dec. 18, 1999.

10/5/1998 The Boston Globe - Meltdown. As Temperatures Climb,
   Mighty Glaciers are Shriveling by Scott Allen
    Focus on Alaskan glaciers (Portage, Columbia, Gulkana, Wolverine, and
        Matanuska). Comments from glaciologist Dennis Trabant and World Glacier
        Monitoring Service. [Article accessible through search of archives; suggest
        search on "Trabant". A small fee is charged to access  this article online.]

8/25/1998  USA Today - Glacier beats a harrowing retreat
    Focus on Columbia Glacier, Alaska.
    Comments from glaciologists, Austin Post, Bob Krimmel, Dennis Trabant,
    and Wendell Tangborn. [Article accessible through search of archives; suggest
    users select "1998" and then  search on "Columbia Glacier". Retrieval of
    archived articles subject to  $1.00 fee.]

8/21/1998   National Public Radio, Talk of the Nation - Sea Level Rise
    Host: Ira Flatow with glaciologist guest, Dr. Mark Meier, and other guests.
        (49 min. audio program online in Real Audio format,
         transcripts and tapes of program also available.)

8/18/1998   The New York Times - As Alaska Melts, Scientists Consider
   the Reasons Why
    The newspaper version was titled "Dead Trees and Shriveling Glaciers as Alaska
        Melts". Focus on Columbia Glacier, Alaska. Comments from glaciologist
        William Harrison.