Shrinking Bylot Island Glaciers Tell Story Of Climate Change
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 - 21:28
in Earth & Climate
University of Illinois geologist William Shilts has spent nearly two decades studying glaciers on Bylot Island, an uninhabited island about 300 miles southwest of Thule, Greenland. He, his students and other geologists who followed in his footsteps have chronicled the decline of several Bylot Island glaciers. Photos of the island from the 1940s to the present offer a vivid picture of the changing glaciers and the forces that shape their retreat.