C016
Impacts of Glacial Retreat: From Ice Loss to Ecosystems and Societal Change
Session ID#: 252623
Session Description:
Glacial retreat is among the most visible indicators of climate change, with profound and far-reaching impacts on physical landscapes, hydrological systems, ecosystems, and human communities. As glaciers shrink across polar and alpine regions, their retreat raises sea level rise, alters freshwater availability, reshapes landscapes, and transforms downstream ecosystems and livelihoods. This session aims to bring together researchers across disciplines to explore the global consequences of glacial retreat from both scientific and societal perspectives and discuss potential mitigating strategies. Topics may include but are not limited to observations or models for monitoring change, geohazards associated with glacial retreat, ecosystem responses, socioeconomic and cultural dimensions of glacier loss and strategies aimed at mitigating the impacts of glacial retreat. By bringing together case studies, integrative syntheses, and novel methodologies, this session seeks to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and identify knowledge gaps and research frontiers in understanding glacial retreat and its cascading impacts.
Co-Sponsor(s):
Index Terms:
0720 Glaciers [CRYOSPHERE]
1621 Cryospheric change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1836 Hydrological cycles and budgets [HYDROLOGY]
4328 Risk [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Primary Convener: Jenny Suckale, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners: Jason M Amundson, University of Alaska Southeast, Department of Natural Sciences, Juneau, United States and Meda Tsá Tsée Náakw DeWitt, Yak-tat Kwáan Corporation, Alaska, Yakutat,, United States
Student/Early Career Convener: Insha Batool, National University of Sciences and Technology, Environmental Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan
Thermal and structural controls on rockfall in recently deglaciated terrain of the Gilkey Trench, Alaska (1882986)
Kiya L Riverman1, Ingrid Fellows2, Seth W Campbell3, Meg Funston2, Masha Kalilina2, Savanna Collins2, Owen Power4, Eleanore Allan-Rahill4 and Riley Wall5, (1)University of Portland, Portland, OR, United States, (2)University of Portland, Portland, United States, (3)University of Maine, Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, Orono, United States, (4)University of Maine, Orono, United States, (5)Juneau Icefield Research Program, Juneau, United States
Challenges To Preserving Watershed Integrity Amidst Glacier Loss And Environmental Conflict In The Cordillera Huaytapallana, Peru: A Social-Hydrological Approach Using Meltwater Tracing (1884907)
Tal Shutkin, The Ohio State University, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, United States and Bryan G Mark, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
The socio-cultural implications of glacier retreat demand further attention: a case study from Cerro El Plomo in Santiago, Chile (1903319)
Kate Cullen, University of California, Berkeley, Energy & Resources Group, Berkeley, United States, Álvaro Ayala, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland, Ms. Millie Spencer, MS, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, United States and Millie Spencer, Álvaro Ayala
Is Temporal Evolution of Seismic Harmonic Tremors Controlled by Sea Ice Extent (1903881)
Dayang Zhou, Pennsylvania State University University Park, State College, PA, UNITED STATES, Gabriel Rocha dos Santos, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, United States and Tieyuan Zhu, The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, United States
130 Years of Glacier Change and Multidisciplinary Monitoring of Buried Ice in the Sunlight Peak Region, Absaroka Mountains, Wyoming (1967305)
Tyler Meng1, Noel Potter Jr.2, Roberto Aguilar3, Eric Ivan Petersen4, Stefano Nerozzi5, Michael Daniel5, John W Holt6, Nathaniel E Putzig7, Aaron Townes Russell8, Roger J Michaelides1 and Jennifer Heldmann9, (1)Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, St. Louis, United States, (2)Dickinson College, Department of Geosciences, Carlisle, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (5)University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, United States, (6)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (7)Planetary Science Institute, Lakewood, CO, United States, (8)Planetary Science Institute, Lakewood, United States, (9)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States
Linking Glacier Retreat, Snowpack Loss, and Wildfire Activity in the San Joaquin Watershed (1979458)
Rejoice Thomas1, Iti Shrivas1, Surendra Maharjan2, Dr. Wenzhao Li2 and Hesham Mohamed El-Askary2, (1)Chapman University, Schmid College of Science and Technology, Orange, United States, (2)Chapman University, Schmid College of Science and Technology, Orange, CA, United States
Sustainable Cellulose Textiles as a Socio-Environmental Strategy to Mitigate Glacial Melt (2003115)
Birgit Sattler, University of Innsbruck, Austria, Department of Ecology, Austrian Polar Research Institute, Innsbruck, Austria, Battin Tom, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Alessandro Cuzzeri, University of Innbruck, Austria, Department of Ecology, Innsbruck, Austria, Monika Summerer, University of Innsbruck, Austria, Department of Ecology, Innsbruck, Austria, Klemens Weisleitner, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria, Berndt Koell, Lenzing AG, Lenzing, Austria and Tabea Grube, University of Innsbruck, Department of Ecology, Innsbruck, Austria
