The National Park Service and the University of Washington will collaborate in a project to summarize Nisqually glacier changes over the past century and offer predictions for future changes, under various climate change scenarios. The Nisqually glacier is among the most accessible in the United States, and surveys have been regularly made (since 1931) to determine changes in the elevation of the surface, along 3 lateral transects. These long-running data will be examined and analyzed from the perspective of other glacier monitoring projects, and on-going climate change. The results will be interpreted in several contexts including: (1) glacier dynamics; (2) climate change; (3) glacier mass balance; and, most importantly, (4) geologic [...]
