Jewell Lund, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Richard R Forster, Department of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Summer Rupper, Corvallis, OR, United States, Hans-Peter Marshall, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, Elias J Deeb, CRREL, Hanover, NH, United States and Muhammed Zia Hashmi, Global Change Impact Studies Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan