Tag: Climate
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Pilot’s View: Above Colorado’s Changing Glaciers
Following a year of record-low snowfall, Colorado State University researchers are documenting how the state’s glaciers are changing. To capture the images they need, they returned to the air with LightHawk volunteer pilot Evan Anderman. The researchers combine photographs taken from multiple angles to create detailed models of each glacier’s surface. Before they began flying…
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Twelve Glaciers. Two and a Half Hours.
Colorado’s glaciers and perennial snowfields are shrinking. Documenting those changes means reaching remote mountain sites and gathering photographs from many angles, work that once required long hikes across difficult terrain. LightHawk and Colorado State University researchers are using flight to cover that ground more efficiently and test a new approach to measuring the changing ice.…