C059
High Mountains as Harbingers of Change I

Tuesday, 15 December 2020: 17:30-18:30
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Aurora C Elmore, National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Mary Hubbard, Montana State University, Department of Earth Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States, Gino Casassa, University of Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile and Brian Menounos, University of Northern British Columbia, Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Institute and Geography Program, Prince George, BC, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Aurora C Elmore, National Geographic, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Aurora C Elmore, National Geographic, Washington, DC, United States and Brian Menounos, University of Northern British Columbia, Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Institute and Geography Program, Prince George, BC, Canada
OSPA Liaison:  Mary Hubbard, Montana State University, Department of Earth Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States
17:30
C059-02
Assessing climate change and glacier status in the high Andes of central Chile (761544)
Gino Casassa1,2, Diego González Sr.2, Jorge Huenante Sr.2, Franco Buglio2, Alejandra Espinoza2, Alexis Segovia2, Kenji Yoshikawa3, Gonzalo Campos4, Aurora C Elmore5, Baker Perry6, Rodrigo Zamora7, Mariusz Potocki8 and Paul Andrew Mayewski8, (1)University of Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile, (2)Dirección General de Aguas, Ministerio de Obras Públicas, Unidad de Glaciología y Nieves, Santiago, Chile, (3)Univ Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)UPD, Concón, Chile, (5)National Geographic, Washington, DC, United States, (6)Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, United States, (7)CECS-Center for Scientific Studies, Valdvia, Chile, (8)University of Maine, Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States
17:34
C059-03
Examining the temporal variability of the mass balance of Everest’s glaciers over the last six decades (743597)
Owen King, University of St Andrews, School of Geography & Sustainable Development, St Andrews, KY16, United Kingdom, Atanu Bhattacharya, University of St Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, St Andrews, KY16, United Kingdom, Tobias Bolch, University of St Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable development, St Andrews, United Kingdom, Sam Guilford, National Geographic Society, Washington, United States and Alex Tait, National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, United States
17:38
C059-04
High-resolution Monitoring and Modeling of Meltwater Sources and Contaminant Fluxes from the Athabasca Glacier, Canada (707563)
Kasia Staniszewska1, Colin A. Cooke1,2 and Alberto V Reyes1, (1)University of Alberta, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (2)Alberta Environment and Parks, Environmental Monitoring and Science Division, Edmonton, AB, Canada
17:42
C059-05
Groundwater in Tibet – invisible and restless (Invited) (682558)
Shemin Ge, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
17:46
C059-06
Natural and human contributions to pre-monsoon snow and stream chemistry in the Khumbu/Mt. Everest region, Nepal (744661)
Heather Clifford1, Mariusz Potocki1, Inka Koch2, Tenzing Chogyal Sherpa3, Michael Handley1, Elena Korotkikh4, Douglas Introne5, Susan Kaspari6, Kimberley Rain Miner7, Tom Matthews8, Baker Perry9, Heather Guy10, Patrick Wagnon11, Ananta Gajurel12, Praveen Kumar Singh2, Sandra Elvin13, Aurora C Elmore13,14, Alex Tait13 and Paul Andrew Mayewski1, (1)University of Maine, Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States, (2)International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, (3)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, (4)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (5)Univ Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (6)Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA, United States, (7)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (8)University of Loughborough, Geography, Loughborough, United Kingdom, (9)Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, United States, (10)University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, (11)IGE, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble, France, (12)Tribhuvan University, Geology, Kathmandu, Nepal, (13)National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, United States, (14)National Geographic, Washington, DC, United States
17:50
C059-07
Pushing Climate Change Science to the Roof of the World (Invited) (662589)
Paul Andrew Mayewski, University of Maine, Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States
17:54
C059-08
Where Does the World's Highest Glacier Get Its Moisture? (767425)
Baker Perry1, Tom Kenneth Roger Matthews2, Arbindra Khadka Jr3, Heather Guy4, Inka Koch5, Jonathan Maurer1, Aurora C Elmore6,7, Dibas Shrestha8, Deepak Aryal8 and Paul Andrew Mayewski9, (1)Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, United States, (2)Loughborough University, Croxley Green, United Kingdom, (3)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu, Nepal, (4)University of Leeds, School of Earth & Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom, (5)University of Tübingen, Department of Geosciences, Tübingen, Germany, (6)National Geographic, Washington, DC, United States, (7)National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, United States, (8)Tribhuvan University, Central Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Kathmandu, Nepal, (9)University of Maine, Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States
17:58
Discussion
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