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Webinar: From Icefield to Ocean: Impacts of Glacier Change in Alaska

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By Climate Adaptation Science Centers April 25, 2013

Check out this webinar to learn more about glacial loss in the Gulf of Alaska.

Date Recorded

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Summary

Mountains ringing the Gulf of Alaska host large maritime glaciers that are experiencing some of the highest rates of volume loss on Earth.  These rapidly changing glaciers demonstrate tight physical and ecological linkages with downstream ecosystems that bridge the icefield-to-ocean continuum. This talk will highlight recent efforts of an Alaska Climate Science Center supported research project to better understand these linkages, including how glaciers influence hydrology and oceanography as well as the biogeochemistry and ecology of freshwater and near-shore marine ecosystems that receive glacial runoff.  We will also discuss a framework for developing an interdisciplinary research program related to glacier change that will inform future management efforts in the diverse and productive coastal ecosystems along the Gulf of Alaska.

Resources

Transcript -- O'Neel/Hood 4.25.13

Learn more about this project here. 

View this webinar here

Below are multimedia items associated with this project.

From Icefield to Ocean: Impacts of Glacier Change in Alaska

From Icefield to Ocean: Impacts of Glacier Change in Alaska

Rapidly changing glaciers in Alaska demonstrate tight physical and ecological linkages with downstream ecosystems that bridge the icefield-to-ocean continuum.

From Icefield to Ocean: Impacts of Glacier Change in Alaska

From Icefield to Ocean: Impacts of Glacier Change in Alaska

Rapidly changing glaciers in Alaska demonstrate tight physical and ecological linkages with downstream ecosystems that bridge the icefield-to-ocean continuum.

Check out this webinar to learn more about glacial loss in the Gulf of Alaska.

Date Recorded

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Summary

Mountains ringing the Gulf of Alaska host large maritime glaciers that are experiencing some of the highest rates of volume loss on Earth.  These rapidly changing glaciers demonstrate tight physical and ecological linkages with downstream ecosystems that bridge the icefield-to-ocean continuum. This talk will highlight recent efforts of an Alaska Climate Science Center supported research project to better understand these linkages, including how glaciers influence hydrology and oceanography as well as the biogeochemistry and ecology of freshwater and near-shore marine ecosystems that receive glacial runoff.  We will also discuss a framework for developing an interdisciplinary research program related to glacier change that will inform future management efforts in the diverse and productive coastal ecosystems along the Gulf of Alaska.

Resources

Transcript -- O'Neel/Hood 4.25.13

Learn more about this project here. 

View this webinar here

Below are multimedia items associated with this project.

From Icefield to Ocean: Impacts of Glacier Change in Alaska

From Icefield to Ocean: Impacts of Glacier Change in Alaska

Rapidly changing glaciers in Alaska demonstrate tight physical and ecological linkages with downstream ecosystems that bridge the icefield-to-ocean continuum.

From Icefield to Ocean: Impacts of Glacier Change in Alaska

From Icefield to Ocean: Impacts of Glacier Change in Alaska

Rapidly changing glaciers in Alaska demonstrate tight physical and ecological linkages with downstream ecosystems that bridge the icefield-to-ocean continuum.

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