Base Camp: Tracking Oregon’s Glacier Changes

Activity Notes

The glaciers on Oregon’s Cascade volcanos are rapidly retreating in response to human-caused global warming from the burning of fossil fuels. Here we will discuss recent changes to the size and number of glaciers remaining in the Oregon Cascades, including Oregon glaciers that are now listed in the Global Glacier Casualty List. We will also introduce a new mobile phone app that will enable Mazamas and other citizen scientists to take new glacier observations in the field through repeat photography to aid the Oregon Glaciers Institute in tracking this dwindling water resource in our changing mountains. 

Anders Carlson is the Founder and President of OGI with a Ph.D. in glacial geology. He has studied climate change and the cryosphere for >20 years from Antarctica to Svalbard and most places in between.

Megan Thayne is an environmental and G.I.S. scientist with the Army Corp of Engineers. Megan leads OGI's digital mapping of glacier change and relating this change to concurrent climate change as well as spearheading the education program.