Glacial motion

October 2024

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Dr Heather Purdie monitors changes in ice thickness and velocity at Fox Glacier. Photo: Virginia Woolf
Studies of Fox Glacier Te Moeka o Tuawe show the link between glacier recession and rising global temperatures. By Heather Purdie Fox Glacier Te Moeka o Tuawe began to change in the mid-2000s with the start of a new advance phase. I was researching and teaching about glaciers then, and over the next five years […]

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