Physical Scientist
Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center
Email:
lisa_mckeon@usgs.gov
Office Phone:
406-253-3223
Fax:
406-888-7923
ORCID:
0000-0002-1760-0235
Location
OA- NPS Glacier NP
PO Box 169
, West Glacier
MT 59936
USA
Supervisor:
Caitlyn E Florentine
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These polygon features represent the maximum extent of the 37 named glaciers in Glacier National Park and two glaciers on U.S. Forest Service’s Flathead National Forest land during the peak of the Little Ice Age (mid-nineteenth century). Glacial margins are based on moraine deposits that result from active glaciation, and do not depict perennial snow and ice. Moraines were digitized based on WorldView imagery acquired on the following dates: 20141019, 20150822, 20150912, 20150925, 20160821, 20160915 (World View 01 and World View 03 satellites). High resolution imagery was supplemented with oblique aerial photographs flown in 2009 and 2016, historic photographs from the USGS photograph collection, and field notes...
Categories: Data;
Types: Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
Shapefile;
Tags: CCME-glacier,
Flathead National Forest,
Glacier National Park,
Montana,
aerial imagery, All tags...
alpine glacier,
cryosphere,
environment,
geoscientificInformation,
glacier area,
glacier retreat,
glaciers,
moraine,
satellite imagery,
snow and ice cover, Fewer tags
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This data release is a collection of data and field notes documenting snow and ice changes on South Cascade Glacier, Washington, USA. The field records relate to glaciological research and reflect evolving interpretations of glacier mass balance, climatology, hydrology, and other glacier-related research conducted at the site between 1957 to 2022 in association with the USGS Benchmark Glacier Project. Notebooks have been scanned in their entirety in PDF format. The USGS Benchmark Glacier Project has monitored targeted mountain glaciers across North America since research was initiated at South Cascade Glacier in 1957. Data from the five benchmark glaciers located in Alaska, Washington, and Montana, provide continental-scale...
Categories: Data;
Tags: South Cascade Glacier,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Washington,
benchmark glacier,
boundaries, All tags...
climatology,
economy,
glacier,
hydrology,
mass balance,
snow and ice cover, Fewer tags
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These polygon features represent the maximum extent of glaciers in Glacier National Park and two glaciers on U.S. Forest Service’s Flathead National Forest land during the peak of the Little Ice Age (mid-nineteenth century). Glacial margins are based on moraine deposits that result from active glaciation, and do not depict perennial snow and ice. The criteria used for determining which moraines constituted a former glacier were a) whether a terminal moraine was present, and b) whether the glacier area was five aces or more. Moraines were digitized based on the best available imagery, including WorldView imagery acquired between 2015 and 2017, border Imagery from the Department of Homeland Security acquired in 2009...
Categories: Data;
Types: Downloadable,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
Shapefile;
Tags: CCME-glacier,
Flathead National Forest,
Glacier National Park,
Montana,
aerial imagery, All tags...
alpine glacier,
cryosphere,
environment,
geoscientificInformation,
glacier area,
glacier retreat,
glaciers,
moraine,
satellite imagery,
snow and ice cover, Fewer tags
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The “Glaciers of Glacier National Park Repeat Photography Collection” is a compilation of photographs documenting the retreat of glaciers in Glacier National Park, Montana, U.S.A. (GNP) through repeat photography. The collection is comprised of 57 image pairs, resulting from twenty-two years of U.S.Geological Survey (USGS) field excursions (1997-2019) for the purpose of photographically documenting glacier change. Historic images of glaciers were located at the USGS Photographic Library, GNP Archives, and the University of Montana Special Collections. Employees and volunteers of the USGS Repeat Photography Project relocated the site of each historic photograph and re-photographed the image to create a historic-contemporary...
Categories: Data;
Tags: CCME-glacier,
Glacier National Park,
Montana,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
climate change, All tags...
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere,
glacier retreat,
glaciers,
landscape change,
repeat photography,
snow and ice cover, Fewer tags
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This data release consists of digitized glacier margins that represent the maximum extent of glaciers in Glacier National Park (GNP) and two glaciers on U.S. Forest Service’s Flathead National Forest land during the peak of the Little Ice Age. Glacier margins are based on moraine deposits that result from active glaciation, and do not depict perennial snow and ice. Moraines are continuous arcuate rock deposits with distinct crests that form at the ice edge of active glaciers. The criteria used for identifying the former size and location of glaciers were a) the presence of a terminal moraine, b) the presence of one or both lateral moraines, and c) whether the identified glacier area was 0.020 km2 (five acres) or...
Tags: Flathead National Forest,
Glacier National Park,
Montana,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
aerial imagery, All tags...
alpine glacier,
cryosphere,
environment,
geoscientificInformation,
glacier area,
glacier retreat,
glaciers,
moraine,
satellite imagery,
snow and ice cover, Fewer tags
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