In US Northwest, South Cascade is where glacier science grew up

In US Northwest, South Cascade is where glacier science grew up

For nearly 70 years scientists have been probing, measuring, drilling and generally getting to know South Cascade Glacier in the US Northwest, developing and honing skills now used worldwide.

For nearly 70 years, scientists have investigated, measured, drilled and generally learned about the South Cascade Glacier in the United States, the north-west, and the development and development of skills now used worldwide. On Friday, generations of glaciologists studied the slow ice mass in the state of Washington, which [...]

Impressive mass in the northwest of the United States, the South Cascade Glacier inspired generations of scientists who studied it closely, developing and refining methods today used worldwide.

The South Cascade Glacier is located in the state of Washington in the Cascade Range, an important North American mountain range that extends from the north of the state of California to the south of the Canadian province British Columbia. “It has been continuously monitored since 1952 and provides one of the longest uninterrupted records of glaciological mass in the Western Hemisphere,” says the statement released by the WMO. According to Portl…