Dear
GLIMS colleagues,
1. We need to clean the GLIMS list of
people (http://www.glims.org/glims/collaborators_people.php).
The bottom of the table sums the entries as 270. This
includes many duplicate names. The number of currently
or recently active, listed participants is closer to 200
after accounting for duplicate names. The list also
includes some long-ago or former wishful but
unproductive contributors, but I am also sure there are
many actual recent contributors who are not listed. I
want to fix the list, so I seek your input on names of
yourself or your unlisted colleagues who have
contributed to the database, or behind the scenes to the
glacier analysis, or to technology development that went
straight into GLIMS analysis, or who contributed to the
GLIMS book. I will make a list of people who I know or
believe have not been active to a point of having
contributed to the GLIMS database or the GLIMS book but
who are nonetheless listed. If I am in doubt, I will
email that person before striking them off the list. We
might make a list of former major contributors who have
retired or moved on to something else, but who should
remain named in some capacity. For newly added names I
need: Family name, given name, affiliation, geographic
area(s) of interest, regional center if you know it,
and contact email (your own email or a designated
surrogate).
2. Some changes in the
GLIMS acquisition parameters for ASTER were implemented
a few months ago, so I ask Southern Hemisphere people to
look at acquisitions in the last few months for southern
targets. Let me know if things went well, or poorly
(and whether due to few acquisitions; too much cloud
cover; poor gains; artifacts; poor illumination; or too
much snow cover), or so-so, and give numbers if
possible, but at least a qualitative signal of whether
things are working or not. I am particularly wondering
about Antarctica (peninsula and "mainland"), but any
southern glaciers are relevant at this time.
--Jeff
Jeffrey S. Kargel
Department of Hydrology & Water Resources
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85742 USA
Mobile phone: 520-780-7759