Alaska's shrinking glaciers: integrated glaciological research for hydrological, ecological, and environmental education applications

• Main Author: Young, Joanna
• Other Authors: Pettit, Erin, Arendt, Anthony, Conner, Laura, Hood, Eran
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: glaciers; Alaska; meltwater; glaciology; runoff; Fairbanks; Juneau Icefield; Mendenhall River; glacier
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/11302

Dissertation (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2020 As air temperatures in Alaska are rising, glacier melt is accelerating and affecting hydrological resources and downstream ecosystem function. The extent to which glacier loss may change hydrological regimes in coastal climates, and how that...