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From: klinker11/5/2012 2:42:15 PM
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obviously location and altitude are a contributing factor in the glacial ablation but these guys focused their research in the stewart area.. also a bit dated article




Retreating glaciers reveal secrets of ancient forests

UVic tree ring researchers race against time to collect newly exposed wood samples
by Ellen Reynolds

Glaciers in B.C.'s coastal mountains are retreating at rates of 25 to 50 metres per year and are exposing forests that have been entombed in ice for 2,000 to 5,000 years, a UVic research team is discovering.

"Our lab uses trees to tell glacier stories and they're telling us that some kind of threshold climate change has taken place in the Coast Mountains within the last century," Smith says. "Whether it's global warming or changes in precipitation, our research at several glacier sites is telling us this hasn't happened in the past 5,000 years."

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Over the next two years, Smith and his students will focus their glacier research in the Stewart area as part of a larger project that began north of Chilliwack and will continue towards the Stikine-Iskut area of the Coast Mountains in northwestern B.C. and southern Alaska.

"In places like Stewart and further north in Skitine-Iskut, the last time anyone went in there to do this kind of research was over 25 years ago," says Smith. "As fast as the glaciers are retreating, I can hardly wait to get there. We're going to find wonderful new material."
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