Print the following pages, cut apart the glacier images, and laminate for classroom use. For your reference, the information about each photo pair is below.
Please refer to activity directions on Windows to the Universe for more information about classroom implementation of this activity. The web page that describes this activity is: http://www.windows2universe.org/teacher_resources/teach_glacier.html
Pair | Year | Photographer | Source | Page |
1 Muir Glacier Lat: 59.0783 Long: -136.3606 | 1941 | William O. Field | American Geographical Society | 2 top |
2004 | Bruce F. Molina | USGS | 2 bottom | |
2 Carroll Glacier Lat: 59.0842 Long: -136.6449 | 1906 | Charles Will Wright | USGS | 3 top |
2003 | Bruce F. Molina | USGS | 3 bottom | |
3 Holgate Glacier Lat: 59.8711 Long: -149.9186 | 1909 | Ulysses S. Grant | USGS | 4 top |
2004 | Bruce F. Molina | USGS | 4 bottom | |
4 McCarty Glacier Lat: 59.7700 Long: -150.2208 | 1909 | Ulysses S. Grant | USGS | 5 top |
2004 | Bruce F. Molina | USGS | 5 bottom | |
5 Muir Glacier Lat: 59.0783 Long: -136.3606 | 1899 | Grove Karl Gilbert | USGS | 6 top |
2003 | Ron Karpilo | National Park Service | 6 bottom | |
6 Toboggan Glacier Lat: 61.0217 Long: -148.2769 | 1909 | Sidney Paige | USGS | 7 top |
2000 | Bruce F. Molina | USGS | 7 bottom | |
7 Muir Glacier Lat: 59.0783 Long: -136.3606 | 1976 | Bruce F. Molina | USGS | 8 top |
2003 | Bruce F. Molina | USGS | 8 bottom | |
8 Penderson Glacier Lat: 59.8928 Long: -149.7805 | 1909 | Ulysses S. Grant | USGS | 9 top |
2004 | Bruce F. Molina | USGS | 9 bottom |
All glacier images are all from Alaska, U.S. and were published by the National Snow and Ice Data Center - World Data Center for Glaciology (www.nsidc.org)
Page numbers listed above correspond to the numbers on the following pages.
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2004
1906
2003
1909
2004
1909
2004
1899
2003
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1976
2003
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2004