Table of Contents

Dedication vi Acknowledgments vii Preface ix Chapter 1: The Rhythm of Tidewater Glaciers: Advance and Retreat 1 Chapter 2: Discovering the Landscape: early explorations 13 Chapter 3: Discovering the Glacier: physics Meets earth Sciences 33 Chapter 4: The Glacier and its Landscape Above the fjord: The Upper Glacier 75 Bibliography 82 Appendix 86

About the Author

W. Tad Pfeffer is a glaciologist and photographer, Fellow of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, and Professor of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research interests include the mechanics and dynamics of glaciers and heat and mass transfer in snow. He has worked on glaciers for 30 years, traveling to Alaska, Arctic Canada, Greenland, Antarctica, and mountain locations in North America and Europe.