"The glacier story is always changing, but it can be caught and preserved with the proper use of a camera."   - A. E. Harrison

 

Repeat Photography of Glaciers

High-resolution image

Image Credit: Lonnie G. Thompson, Byrd Polar Research Center, the Ohio State University/courtesy NSIDC.


Glacier photo pair example, high resolution

On the left is a photograph of Qori Kalis Glacier taken in July 1978, and on the right, a photograph taken from the same vantage in July 2004. Both photographs taken by Lonnie G. Thompson, Byrd Polar Research Center, the Ohio State University.