Malaspina Glacier Gets Up and Goes Malaspina Glacier Gets Up and Goes
Glaciologist Martin Truffer changed his team’s plan the other day. He and a crew of other scientists were about to travel to Malaspina Glacier near the elbow of Alaska where Southeast Alaska hinges onto the mainland but the glacier has wrecked his campsite.
“Mark Fahenstock [another team member] looked at velocities of the ice and the glacier is surging,” Truffer said. “The site where we were going to go is moving about 30 to 40 feet per day.”
That glacier activity, which Fahenstock saw when comparing satellite images, means that the smooth face of Malaspina in the area Truffer wanted to camp is now cracked up.