GLIMS Update: International GLIMS in the News

Mon Dec 9 13:56:37 MST 2002

Dear GLIMS Colleagues,

"Glacier Lake Floods" will be a sound bite (condensed to ~1 minute from
one-hour interview!), derived from my Spring AGU talks last May, on
National Public Radio and other radio stations on the "Earth and Sky"
series, February 16, 2003.  I append the radio script below.  In Flagstaff,
this will be:

   KNAU-FM 88.7
   M-F 7:08 am, S&S 7:35 am February 16

   KPUB-FM 91.7 (satellite station of KNAU-FM )
   M-F 7:08 am, S&S 7:35 am February 16

Also look for this story to be picked up in the January DISCOVER magazine
as #23 of the Top 100 science stories for 2002.  FYI, I also append a more
complete listing of GLIMS/glaciers in the news this and last year.

Please inform me of any significant missed general-audience GLIMS news
items, and we shall post the complete list on the glims website, and
periodically update it.   Luke:  Please give me the full reference of the
TIME magazine story.

--Jeff K(See attached file: GLIMS-MediaCoverage.DOC)

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Dr. Jeffrey S. Kargel
U.S. Geological Survey
2255 N. Gemini Dr.
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
U.S.A.

Telephone (+1) (928) 556-7034
Fax (+1) (928) 556-7014
Email: jkargel at usgs.gov
Home email: jkargel at flaglink.com
Home phone: (+1)(928) 527-4196
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                      Jorge Salazar                                                                                                        
                      <jsalazar at earthsk        To:       jkargel at usgs.gov                                                                  
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                                               Subject:  Earth & Sky script for your review - Glacier Lake                                 
                      12/09/02 10:07 AM                                                                                                    

Dear Dr. Kargel,

Thank you for talking with our writer, Katie Greene, and helping to make
possible the Earth & Sky radio series program, "Glacier Lake."  There's a
draft of the script pasted to the bottom of this message, and I'd like your
feedback on it.  I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Best regards,

Jorge Salazar

<><><><>  script below  <><><><><>

Glacier Lake
Floods When glaciers melt, lakes might form -- sometimes high above a
mountain village.  These glacial lakes can overflow and create hazardous
floods.  A scientist talks about  floods in the Himalayas -- on today's
Earth and Sky.
Sunday, February 16, 2002 (CAR-ghel)
JB:  This is Earth and Sky.  Many glaciers in the mountains of India,
Nepal, and Tibet are melting . . .

DB:  Lakes will sometimes form on top of the glaciers.  When they grow too
rapidly, they burst over natural rocky dams and surge down river valleys --
possibly destroying villages.  Japanese scientists spotted this potential
hazard in the Himalayas in the early 1990s.  They teamed up Nepalese
engineers to build canals to control the flow of water off glaciers.  And
they built alarm systems that ring in the villages when water levels at the
top of the glacier rise or fall.

Jeffrey Kargel: [40:29]  But now we have the ability to monitor these lakes
from satellites, and it's not a replacement for ground-monitoring and these
alarm-systems, but it's a complement to these sytsems. For one thing, newly
developing lakes are emerging all the time on many glaciers, and some can
have the potential to grow really rapidly.

JB:  That's Jeffrey Kargel at the U.S. Geological Survey in Flagstaff,
Arizona.  He and his colleagues began studying Himalayan glaciers two years
ago by satellite.  With the help of scientists around the world, they
monitor the temperature and growth of these lakes.  And they keep an eye
out for any that might become a hazard.  Kargel hopes that because this
flooding frequently crosses national boundaries, the countries of the
region will work together to study it .  Special thanks today to NASA's
Earth Science Enterprise.  We're Block and Byrd for Earth & Sky.

 The following person was interviewed for today's program.  Our thanks to

Jeff Kargel
Geologist
USGS
GEO-WRG-AST
Flagstaff AZ

Jorge Salazar
Producer
Earth & Sky Radio Series
3500 Oakmont Boulevard #205
Austin, TX 78731
Voice:             512-477-4441
Fax:               512-477-4474
jsalazar at earthsky.com
http://www.earthsky.org
Inspiring curiosity about science and nature for eleven years in 2002
Find out more about Friends of Earth & Sky at
http://www.earthandskyfriends.org
"As marvelous as the stars is the mind of the person who studies them." -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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