GLIMS Update: GLIMS News (text-only format)

[Jeffrey S Kargel]

Dear GLIMS Colleagues,

I received a request to re-distribute the GLIMS-in-the-News summary in
text-only form, rather than Microsoft Word Attachment.
Here it is.

Media coverage of GLIMS/ASTER/glaciers

2001

? June 13, 2001. "Mountain Glaciers Shrinking Worldwide," Environmental
News Network

? June 19, 2001, "Spacecraft's Supercamera Captures Earth in all its
Detail," New York Times, p. D5.

? June 25, 2001, EO Newsroom: New Images: "Dobbin Bay in the Canadian
Arctic," Earth Observatory

? June 2001, Segment featuring interview with Rick Wessels on disappearing
glaciers in Glacier National Park, ABC World News Tonight


2002

?  May 29, 2002:
  ?  "Decline of World's Glaciers Expected to Have Global Impacts
       Over This Century," NASA News/AGU/USGS RELEASE: 02-
       76.

  ? "Decline of World's Glaciers Expected to Have Global Impacts Over This
Century," Top Story, Goddard Spaceflight Center

  ? "Decline of World's Glaciers Expected to Have Global Impacts Over This
Century," Earth Observatory

  ?  "Satellites Show Alarming Retreat of Glaciers," SPACE.com

?  August 21, 2002, "Glaciers Melting Worldwide, Study Finds," National
Geographic News

?  September 30, 2002, "Glaciers slip sliding away," Philadelphia Inquirer

?  October 7, 2002,  "Killer with a Cold Heart," U.S. News & World Report,
p. 71.

?  November 18, 2002, "Glacier Park on Thin Ice," Los Angeles Times, page 1
(Column 1, above the fold).

?  November 24, 2002, "Andean Glaciers Shrink, Water Worries Grow," New
York Times, p. 3.

?  November 2002, "Shedding Some Light on Big Ice," Time Canada, Nov. 18,
2002.


Still to come, 2003:

?  January 2003, "Changing Glaciers," # 23 of the top 100 science stories
of 2002, Discover

?  February 16, 2003, "Glacier Lake Floods,"  Earth and Sky series (NPR and
other radio stations)


GLIMS on the Internet:

?  As of November 29, 2002
  ?  535 web hits with google search of "GLIMS glacier"
  ?  144 hits with "GLIMS glacier 2002"
  ?  65 hits with "ASTER GLIMS glacier 2002"

By region:
  ?  105 hits with "GLIMS glacier Alaska"
  ?  105 hits with "GLIMS glacier Canada"
  ?  92 hits with "GLIMS glacier Antarctica"
  ?  91 hits with "GLIMS glacier Greenland"
  ?  62 hits with "GLIMS glacier Alps"
  ?  44 hits with "GLIMS glacier New Zealand"
  ?  29 hits with "GLIMS glacier Andes"
  ?  27 hits with "GLIMS glacier Himalaya"
  ?  7 hits with "GLIMS glacier Caucasus"
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Energy conservation isn't just "green" and future-oriented, it's for
economic prosperity, national/allied security, and global peace.
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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
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Home phone: (+1)(928) 527-4196