GLOBE lecture to LAS
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Slides to a presentation about GLOBE at the Leysin American School.
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- Today we will be talking about: the lead up to the GLOBE program, the introduction of the GLOBE program, what is currently being done at LAS in terms of GLOBE data collection and climate science, and plans for the future.
- Climate change is happening, all you need to do is look around you to see it
- Here is an example that is quite close to home.
- Another look at the Rhone glacier. Notice the forest that is growing at the base of the cliff. That was covered by ice just over 100 years ago.
- You can go into an ice cave in the Rhone glacier. No one knows how much longer you will still be able to do this.
- Here you can see the Rhone glacier as well as the Alesch glacier, the longest one in the Alps.
- Alaska also has glaciers. The rugged and island strewn geography of Southeast Alaska was highly influences by glaciers.
- Glacier Bay has glaciers that empty into sea water. It is visited each year by almost a million cruise ship passangers. Note Russell Island.
- Here is what Russell Island looked like when John Muir was there in the 1880’s.
- The distance from Russell Island to the retreating glacier is over 20 kilometers.
- Some of the variables that we looked at in the forest study plots were: air/soil temp, light infiltration (canopy cover), tree type, tree size, tree density, herbaceous layer cover, and bird activity.
- The BE Forest is very close to the BEC. Students can literally be in the forest in 1-2 minutes.
- The BR Forest is also quite close. Note the Savoy and Beau SIte buildings.