Glaciers are the Earth's memory- preserving landscapes, artifacts, and events of the past. What will we forget as the ice melts?
Special thanks to those who made this project possible:
Eric Matt: https://www.ericmattphotography.com/
https://www.instagram.com/ericmattt/
Dr. Mauri Pelto, North Cascade Glacier Climate Project: https://glaciers.nichols.edu/
Jill Pelto, North Cascade Glacier Climate Project: https://www.jillpelto.com/
Emma Mary Murray, fiber artist: https://www.emmamarymurray.com/
To learn more about the field work this project documents, recent publications from the North Cascade Glacier Project's 2024 season:
NASA Earth Observatory - Today’s Glacial Retreat is a Recent Phenomenon: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153482/todays-glacial-retreat-is-a-recent-phenomenon
NASA Earth Observatory - Keeping Tabs on North Cascade glaciers: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153337/keeping-tabs-on-north-cascades-glaciers
NOAA - Highlights from the State of the Climate 2023: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/highlights-state-climate-2023
Washington Post - When a glacier is no longer a glacier: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/08/25/dead-glaciers-melting-disappearing-ice/
Seattle Times - Mount Rainier is shrinking and now has a new summit: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/mount-rainier-is-shrinking-and-now-has-a-new-summit/
Newsweek - NASA Images Reveal Stark Changes on Washington's Mount Baker: https://www.newsweek.com/nasa-images-reveal-stark-changes-washingtons-mount-baker-1974865
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Further Reading:
Peter G. Night - Glacier: Nature and Culture: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/G/bo46408839.html
National Snow and Ice Data Center: https://nsidc.org/learn/parts-cryosphere/glaciers/why-glaciers-matter
Linda Hall Library - Mammoths: https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/mikhail-adams/
Atlas Obscura - Mammoths: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/terrible-mammoth-drawing-naturalists
John J. McKay - Discovering the Mammoth: https://bit.ly/4e6LwYg
Michael Adams, "Some Account of a Journey to the Frozen-Sea, and of the Discovery of the Remains of a Mammoth." The Philadelphia Medical and Physical Journal, Part 1, Vol. 3 (1808)
Pilø L, Finstad E, Barrett JH. Crossing the ice: an Iron Age to medieval mountain pass at Lendbreen, Norway. Antiquity. 2020;94(374):437-454. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.2
Smithsonian Magazine - Glacial Archaeology: https://bit.ly/4hsgVHs
Nat Geo - Glacial Archaeology: https://bit.ly/4eaFFRx
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/lost-viking-highway-revealed-melting-ice
Live Science - Ancient Forest: https://www.livescience.com/39819-ancient-forest-thaws.html
Nato Geo - Ancient Moss: https://bit.ly/4f7k6CU
Bennike, O., Colgan, W., Hedenäs, L., Heiri, O., Lemdahl, G., Wiberg-Larsen, P., Ribeiro, S., Pronzato, R., Manconi, R. & Bjørk, A. A. 2022: An early Pleistocene interglacial deposit at Pingorsuit, North-West Greenland. Boreas https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12596
Britannica - Early Everest Expeditions: https://www.britannica.com/place/Mount-Everest/Early-expeditions
Royal Geographical Society - 1921 Everest Expedition: https://bit.ly/40tD6H7
PBS - 1924 Everest Expedition: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/lost/mystery/
Everest Summit 1953: https://bit.ly/3YMVidH
Nat Geo - Sandy Irvine Remains Found: https://bit.ly/4fuCB3O
Photos:
Royal Geographical Society: https://www.rgs.org/our-collections/stories-from-our-collections/online-exhibitions/everest-a-reconnaissance
Smithsonian Magazine: https://bit.ly/4e9FTIL
Illustrations:
Wellcome Collection: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ghu59pv9/images?id=ksaqhe77
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xju5jstn/images?id=ydavc72x
https://wellcomecollection.org/works/vnem4ng6
British Library: https://imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/31450/
Unbekannt - Discovery of a Woolly Mammoth, 1779 c1870
R.C. West - Walrus Sketch: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PZSL1853Page115.png
Dane Beard - Frozen Mammoth, 1882
Michael Bernhard Valentini, Museum museorum, 1714
Athanasius Kircher - Mundus subterraneus, 1665: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MundusSubterraneus.jpg
0:00 - The Mammoth
3:43 - Crossing the Ice
6:33 - The Data
7:44 - Losing the Ice
10:57 - The Artifacts
13:01 - Beyond the Ice
13:58 - The Life
15:32 - Studying the Ice
18:13 - The Mystery
20:46 - Remembering the Ice
24:18 - The Memory
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