The marker for 1917 is about a mile from the glacier’s current point. The oxygen molecules in the fish ear bones, or otoliths, carry a record of life history. It used to be visible from the shore of the lake. As he mounts his most aggressive campaign yet on climate change, Obama planned to trek up Alaska’s famed Exit Glacier with photographers … Jonathan Ernst/Reuters If you have questions about your account, please The presence of oxygen isotopes with the atomic weight of 18 rather than the more common 16 in the otoliths is a marker of cold, he said. Back on land and on the Exit Glacier road, the Park Service and U.S. Department of Transportation last year completed a makeover to cope with floods that had regularly closed off traffic in past years. Trump administration seeks to tie Biden’s hands. I’m hardly the first to make this journey and lament the lesson of Exit Glacier, of course. Much longer-term geologic processes are at work, the study concludes. SEWARD — A finger of ice spilling out of the Chugach Mountains marks Alaska's rapidly warming climate — almost literally. One interpretative sign is titled Living Laboratory, a nod at the scientific value of studying glacier retreats. But its public stature is large. The Exit Glacier Area is open year-round. From this distance, gazing up the open valley, I sense the immensity of the icefield. Then I make my exit. It has a connection to the world's most famous sled dog race. (Yereth Rosen / Alaska Dispatch News), Hikers pause to take in a view of Exit Glacier from a spot a few miles into the Harding Icefield Trail. This boom in “glacier tourism” seems to be dually spurred, at least in part, by climate change… But all I see are the alder trees that surround the pavilion, which has been repurposed as an educational stop for visitors curious about the glacier’s shrinkage. Now, disappearance of the ice has exposed those bits as mountains, she said. It is unlikely that any kind of similar structure would be put in near the glacier's current terminus, she said: "If you build something that has a lot of infrastructure, at some point it's going to be out of date again.". It has starred on television and video, including an episode of NBC's "Running Wild with Bear Grylls" that focused on Obama's visit. On the mile-long Exit Glacier trail, which once ended in a loop, the Park Service has had to make two significant extensions, adding a 540-foot spur in 2006 and a 420-foot extension of that in 2010. What happens then to the park infrastructure built for visitors to a glacier that is creeping out of view, year by year?”. Stay informed about the latest scientific discoveries & breakthroughs. The Park Service has launched a research project to track acidification in Kenai Fjords' marine waters, along with other characteristics like salinity, temperature and turbidity. And there it is, a giant finger pointing down a mountainside. How long before the tourists stop coming to Exit Glacier, I wonder. "If you slice it, you can see growth rings, just like trees.". Aerial photography and historic photographic records are also used to track the glacier's changes. subscription yet. In the past, mountaineers and glacier travelers at higher elevations used a bag-and-dump system to discard their waste into deep crevasses, as was the typical practice elsewhere, she said. SINGAPORE/ANCHORAGE (Reuters) - The world has become far too hot for the aptly named Exit Glacier in Alaska. Exit Glacier… What about accommodating visitors in the future? Land-terminating Alaska glaciers like Exit, though they make up only a tiny percentage of the world's ice, are significant contributors to global sea-level rise, and visitors to Kenai Fjords are able to see that process up close. Pedersen Glacier lost an average of 65 feet a year from 1951 to 1986, but that rate jumped to 410 feet a year from 1994 to 2015, scientists report. Traverse the majesty of Exit Glacier by ice hiking or ice climbing, or opt for a … “How long before the tourists stop coming to Exit Glacier?” Simon asks. Alaska is the largest state in the United States, accounting for about 20% of the total area of the United States and more than twice the land area of Texas. One month free trial to the Monitor Daily. Her last trip here was six years ago, she says, when the glacier was closer to the lookout. Now climbers are instructed to carry out their waste, but past years' deposits, after being churned through the moving and melting ice, are now turning up at the end of Exit, she said. Kim said. I write history and I have great admiration for human ingenuity," Capra says. “My concern is the denial. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News). "Clearly, we have a situation where the glacier is changing. That adds to the acidification as marine waters absorb more atmospheric carbon. She was hiking with a family group on July 5 and taking mental notes. The good news for Kenai Fjords is that Exit Glacier has retreated so far back that the rocky terrain left behind is solid and stable ground for the existing visitor facilities along the trail, Curran said. There are plans to expand the study and analyze more old fish bones from a wider part of the Gulf of Alaska, he said. SEWARD, Alaska (AP) — President Barack Obama stared down a melting glacier in Alaska on Tuesday in a dramatic use of his presidential pulpit to sound the alarm on climate change. A similar lake formation has occurred at retreating Bear Glacier, south of Exit. Portage Glacier, one of multitudes of glaciers in Chugach National Forest, remains a big tourist draw even though visitors now have to take a boat ride across Portage Lake to see its face. The sedimentary loads in the creek and river structures have yet to settle, and thus the water channels change. It’s my first glacier, and I’m not really feeling it. Information signs posted in the pavilion explain why the once-sweeping view is now obstructed, along with other effects of climate warming. Glacier National Park’s name will outlive its glaciers, Alaska’s climate frontier: Anchorage to cut carbon emissions by 80%. The icefield has retreated over past decades but, more important, it has thinned, Kurtz said. This is the edge of the Harding Icefield, which covers 300 square miles, not counting the 38 glaciers that descend from it. Your session to The Christian Christian Science Monitor reporter Simon Montlake looks out on Exit Glacier on May 17 in Alaska's Kenai Fjords National Park. The impacts of climate change are real, and the people of Alaska are living with them every day. Over the year ending Oct. 1, after fall measurements were taken, the retreat was 293 feet, according to the National Park Service. The sun rises over Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier near the city of El Calafate… The swift retreat of Exit Glacier, in Alaska’s Kenai Mountains, offers a clear sign of how climate change can affect a region in a very short time. contact customer service (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News), A visitor takes in the view of Exit Glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park on July 17. Like glaciers and ice caps around the world, the Exit has been retreating dramatically, helping to raise sea levels from Miami to Mumbai. Planning for new climate change interpretive panels for the Stone Kiosk at Exit Glacier is in the development stage. The state spans a wide range of climatic and ecological conditions that include rainforests, glaciers, boreal forest, tundra, peatlands, and meadows. President Obama paid a visit to the 'spectacular' Exit Glacier in Seward, Alaska on Tuesday, calling the landmark a 'signpost' of climate change. Exit Glacier: Shocking wake up call to climate change - See 849 traveler reviews, 763 candid photos, and great deals for Kenai Fjords National Park, AK, at Tripadvisor. Exit Glacier is only a small part of Kenai Fjords' ice and ice-influenced ecosystem that covers about half the 1,047-square-mile park. Audience applauds. Curtain falls. subscription. "It's striking to see the same process in the South and in the North.". That was part of the fun, standing on a centuries-old freeze, peering into blue crevasses. The Exit name comes from the pioneering 1968 ski traverse across the Harding Icefield by an expedition party that included Alaska homesteader Yule Kilcher, the grandfather of singer Jewel Kilcher. A weekly update on music, movies, cultural trends, and education solutions. President Barack Obama visited Exit Glacier in 2015. ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- President Barack Obama is painting a doomsday scenario for the Arctic and beyond if climate change isn't dealt … It's never been more important for us to work together to address this challenge. "Most science that you're doing, you may be measuring inches, centimeters, millimeters," Kim said. "We just can't continue to extend the trail any longer without it being really unsafe," she said. The Short Film Showcase spotlights exceptional short videos created by filmmakers from around the web and selected by National Geographic editors. Exit Glacier, a finger of cracked, blue-white ice that drops out of 700-square-mile Harding Icefield, some of it outside the park, is relatively small, only 14 square miles. "It's spectacular," Obama said, casting a glance over his shoulder and pausing, as the cameras clicked. Long-term changes are evident far downstream of the ice, an area getting new attention from scientists. Isotope analysis for modern fish bones matched modern Gulf of Alaska temperature records, and the methodology will work for bones from past times prior to written temperature records, potentially as far back as 5,000 years ago, he said. Each spring and fall, park workers go to the glacier to get detailed measurements of its terminus position. From the Exit Glacier parking lot it’s an easy walk to the overlook. As the climate warms, glaciers melt and recede, pulling back … I’m serenaded by birds, and rushing spring melt. Obama to summit Alaska's melting Exit Glacier The president is hoping his hike will offer Americans a glimpse of the effects of climate change in real time. Isotope analysis of bones found from archaeological sites and of modern cod bones points to a temperature increase in that part of the Gulf of Alaska of 3.6 to 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a study published recently in the Journal of Archaeological Sciences: Reports. A selection of the most viewed stories this week on the Monitor's website. The swiftly melting glacier stands as a living monument to global warming. Nearly 2 billion people depend on Himalayan glaciers. That's what I kept telling her: 'You're going to see the blue. Decades ago, Seward teacher Dan Seavey was among the locals who honed his dog-sledding skills in the glacier's valley, sometimes driving dogs directly onto the ice. Exit Glacier, in Alaska's Kenai Fjords National Park Elizabeth Earl. This stunning short film by Raphael Rogers, Paul Rennick, and Kristin Gerhart examines the glacier’s dramatic impact through the voice of local guide Rick Brown. I pass budding alder trees, then clamber up slate and gravel to reach a windswept vantage point. A new management plan for the park's front country — the Exit Glacier area — is in the works to address that. You can renew your subscription or While glacial melt is swelling the volume in the creek and is making the area more watery in general, it turns out that the modern melt is likely not responsible for the sudden inundations that have forced road closures in recent years, a new study finds. The retreat began in the 1800s when Alaska was still Russian territory. I look for cobalt blue but all I see is grey and white, a frozen pack of rock and ice, cracked and bruised. The Park Service has a mass-balance monitoring program that takes measurements each spring and fall to compare the icefield's annual snow accumulations with annual melts. The swift retreat of Exit Glacier, in Alaska’s Kenai Mountains, offers a clear sign of how climate change can affect a region in a very short time. The colder the temperature, the more that heavier isotopes are present. The finger that descends may be pulling back but it also seems to reach down, here at the edge of Alaska, the last frontier. (Pete Souza / White House), A sign, seen here on July 17, gives visitors a sense of how far Exit Glacier has retreated in the last dozen years. The biggest problems are in the area just beyond Exit Glacier's maximum extent during the Little Ice Age, which ended in the early 1800s. Sept. 2, 2015 Read More You're going to see the blue ice.'". Retreating glaciers are … “My concern is the denial. was the biggest in any single summer on record, pioneering 1968 ski traverse across the Harding Icefield, honed his dog-sledding skills in the glacier's valley, retreat has caused the terminus to split into two thinner branches, are significant contributors to global sea-level rise, alculate changes in the past half century at Exit and elsewhere, the arduous hike up to the base of Harding Icefield, the most mass loss at the icefield's lowest elevations, increased torrents of freshwater dilute the saltwater and the calcium in it, floods that had regularly closed off traffic, Alaska House is split 20-20 and remains leaderless as Kodiak Republican sides with coalition, FBI questions Alaska lawmakers on topics including Permanent Fund dividend votes, 1 dead, 3 injured in Seward Highway collision between trucks on the Kenai Peninsula, Anchorage Assembly passes new pandemic relief package, calls on Congress for more assistance, Tribal land issues are a serious challenge facing Alaska. logged you out. Back then, poking out of the icefield, "there were just itty, bitty, little bits" of rock, she said. Exit's rapid changes have forced the Park Service to make frequent adjustments along the trail system. On the road to the glacier's toe, on the trail winding below the forest canopy and, ultimately, on the mostly bare rock at the end of the trail are signs marking 195 years of accelerating pullback. The woman remembers visiting in the 1990s, when you could still walk onto the glacier. SEWARD — A finger of ice spilling out of the Chugach Mountains marks Alaska's rapidly warming climate — almost literally. This stunning short film examines the glacier’s dramatic impact through the voice of local guide Rick Brown. There are flashes of blue, but from this distance it mostly resembles dirty shoveled snow on a sidewalk. An Alaskan couple stops at the pavilion to talk. Researchers say 92% of glaciers near the Alps could be lost by 2100 because of climate change. Eklutna Glacier, source of Anchorage's drinking water and one of several glaciers in relatively accessible Chugach State Park, is well-studied and losing mass. A lake at the toe of the glacier that was tiny two decades ago is now substantial. The bones are from two sites, one about 200 years old and another about 100 years old, left by ancestors of today's Kenai Peninsula-area Sugpiaq people. I write history and I have great admiration for human ingenuity," Capra says. To walk the path to the lookout, then, is to tread a timeline of climate change, passing markers of the glacier’s historic extent. Since 2011, average October-to-May daily temperatures at the glacier's low elevations have been above freezing about half the time, the report noted. Exit Glacier: Climate Change is REAL, Y'all! Chemistry of the marine water is changing as well. In 2016 it shrank by nearly 300 feet in a single year. In 2015, President Barack Obama stood at a lookout and enumerated the facts of glacial melting and rising sea levels. In Seward, Alaska, Exit Glacier is melting at an astonishing rate. log out. The loss measured last summer, 252 feet, was the biggest in any single summer on record. "I'm shocked it changed this much," said Julie, with her husband and two daughters at the trail summit. Park visitors willing to make the arduous hike up to the base of Harding Icefield at about 3,500 feet in elevation can see evidence of melt at the mother of all Kenai Fjords glaciers. unless you renew or Acidification, a threat to shell-bearing organisms and marine life that eat them, has been linked elsewhere to melting glaciers — in Prince William Sound, for example — as increased torrents of freshwater dilute the saltwater and the calcium in it, pushing pH levels lower and more acidic. It matches the cloudy sky, and my mood. Scientists were fortunate to find the cod bones in mounds full of seashells. One important trend detected: The glacier is now retreating in winter as well as in summer, a pattern that has been consistent since 2006, according to a park report that describes Exit's geologic history. An update on major political events, candidates, and parties twice a week. The Christian Science Monitor has expired. SEWARD, Alaska — President Barack Obama turned Tuesday to a dramatic symptom of climate change — a melting Alaska glacier — to highlight the dangers of global warming. Asked where the glacier would likely be when she grows up, 8-year-old Addisyn pointed far up the mountain. I feel oddly cheated by what’s there, even though it’s exactly what I came to see: A melting glacier, a casualty of climate change. After five centuries of expansion during the period known as the Little Ice Age, Exit Glacier reached its maximum expanse around 1815. "We came here for inspiration," she said. Past results found the most mass loss at the icefield's lowest elevations; a new report on mass balance is pending. Renee Shippey of Dallas, who visited Kenai Fjords in June and had been there in 2006 as well, was sorry that her granddaughter was unable to get the same close-up view of blue ice that was available 11 years ago. For years, he's documented Alaska's changing climate and Exit Glacier's retreat. For Sofia Heinonen, visiting from Argentina's glaciated Patagonia region, Exit Glacier and the Park Service's management of it prove good lessons for her country. Standing near the foot of the Exit Glacier, which has receded 1.25 miles since 1815 and 187 feet last year alone, Obama said “this is as good of a … "We perceive it as flooding because the road's there.". For repeat visitors, the changes are stark, said Sharon Kim, chief of resources at Kenai Fjords. Photographed May 17 in Kenai Fjords National Park. Obama blames it … Get the Monitor Stories you care about delivered to your inbox. Exit Glacier is a glacier derived from the Harding Icefield in the Kenai Mountains of Alaska and one of Kenai Fjords National Park's major attractions. Latest book reviews, author interviews, and reading trends. Mendenhall in the Tongass National Forest, a Juneau landmark and magnet for tourists and local outdoors enthusiasts, is shedding ice. They're like little thermometers in the fish," he said. It was visited by a U.S. president — Barack Obama, who spent part of his 2015 Alaska trip at the glacier's melting terminus. Reporter Simon Montlake was fully expecting to be disappointed by Exit Glacier, and he was not disappointed. (Exhibit A) - See 857 traveler reviews, 767 candid photos, and great deals for Kenai Fjords National Park, AK, at Tripadvisor. continue to use the site without a Last year alone, the Exit Glacier melted and retreated 187 feet (57 meters) toward the Harding ice field, which itself has lost 10 percent of its mass since 1950, mainly due to climate change. If Alaska is on the leading edge of global climate change, as President Obama puts it, then that edge is particularly sharp in the picturesque port town of Seward, which hosted him on Tuesday. "I remember walking over here," Shippey said. Today it’s a lovely spot. The more modern melt at Exit Glacier and nearby Paradise Glacier is adding to that condition, said co-author Mike Loso, a National Park Service glacier expert. Photographed on July 17. or call us at 1-617-450-2300. In Seward, Alaska, Exit Glacier is melting at an astonishing rate. Other well-known and much-visited Alaska glaciers are shrinking noticeably. Obama’s tour will continue on Tuesday with a hike to Exit Glacier, where he will observe the problem of melting ice brought on by rising temperatures in the region. Brexit talks resume before the December 31st deadlines. Alaska contains 16 national wil… Now the glacier is retreating faster, much faster, in winter and summer. The shells' calcium counteracted the soil's acidity and the cod bones were perfectly preserved, down to the delicate rib bones, said Aron Crowell of the Smithsonian Institution, a co-author. The five most recent Christian Science articles with a spiritual perspective. Anyone who has lived here a long time has seen the weather change," says Doug Capra. “It is spectacular though,” he conceded, adding: “We want to make sure that our grandkids can see this.”. Some Kenai Fjords glaciers are losing even more ice. All rights reserved. "What we call flooding of that road is really the channels moving," said Janet Curran, a USGS hydrologist and lead author of the study. What does the public expect us to do, within a reasonable parameter?" A famed Alaska glacier where President Barack Obama warned about climate change just a year ago is unrecognizable as it keeps shrinking at an alarming rate. The spring sun is out and I see it glance off the snowy mountains above the glacier. The study examined bones from nine individual fish, six from the archaeological sites and three from modern times. Tom and Julie Schulz, visiting from Minnesota, contrasted the current bare-ground conditions at the trail's summit with their snowy memories from a trip to the same spot in the mid-1990s. An unpleasant trend: Park workers monitoring the glacier's retreating edge from 2013 to 2016 retrieved bags of human feces, with contents in fairly fresh condition, said Deborah Kurtz, physical science program manager at Kenai Fjords. Science Monitor has expired. It is one of the most accessible valley glaciers in Alaska and is a visible indicator of glacial recession due to climate change. It’s the largest icefield in the U.S., and the first documented crossing was made in 1968. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News), The expanse of the Harding Icefield comes into view following a 4.1-mile hike up the Harding Icefield Trail on July 15 near Seward. They will lead you on a guided hike on the Lower Trail or to Harding Icefield, all while providing information about how climate change has affected the landscape, wildlife, and people of Alaska. ANCHORAGE, Alaska Melting glaciers are not just impacting sea level, they are also affecting the flow of organic carbon to the world’s oceans, according to new research that provides the first ever global-scale estimates for the storage and release of organic carbon from glaciers. Also left in the receding glacier’s wake is a National Park Service pavilion that once offered a sweeping view of the glacier but has since been repurposed as an educational center about climate change. There will be no more extensions, Kim said, because the toe of the glacier is now surrounded by steep and treacherous terrain. "They're phenomenal. Explore the trails with Seward Wilderness Collective or Exit Glacier Guides. On a long curve I pull over to take a final photo. The meandering, braided creek and river channels that run down from the end of the glacier to the Seward Highway — and along the corridor that holds the road — are typical of the unstable waterways left behind after a glacier retreats. That is an "inherent consequence of glacial retreat everywhere," he said. He later raced in the bare-bones inaugural Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race (the historic Iditarod Trail started north of Seward); now his son and grandson are professional mushers and repeat Iditarod champions who dominate the event, which has become a sports extravaganza. House lights go up. Exit, glacier. She works for the Conservation Land Trust and is helping the Argentine government — which is coping with some of the same climate issues that face Alaska — expand its own national park system. "Here, people just have to visit it again in a year or two.". I breathe the cool air. What if they melt. -bo. President Obama hiked to Exit Glacier in Alaska last week, with photographers in tow, to send the world a message: The glacier is melting. A sign marks the location of Exit Glacier’s terminus 100 years ago along the trail to an overlook from the parking area. Upon the arrival of snow, usually in mid-November, the road to Exit Glacier is inaccessible to cars, due to a state road closure, but open to winter recreation, including snowmobiles, dogsleds, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and fat bikes. The project, which cost about $3 million, raised the road and inserted culverts below it to try to keep rushing water out of vehicles' paths. Now it’s surrounded by alders. The path is paved as far as a small pavilion of rough-hewn stone pillars and a vaulted wooden roof. What happens then to the park infrastructure built for visitors to a glacier that is creeping out of view, year by year? While last year's retreat was the biggest one-year loss measured, Kim, the resources chief at the park, said the annual measurements only go back a decade; before then, measurements were made every few years. But it stands out for its location in an easily accessible national park, the in-your-face documentation of its retreat and its role as a real-time climate change laboratory. I walk back to my car and take the two-lane road down the valley, burning more gas to add to the stock of carbon in the atmosphere. It has a family link to a pop star. “That’s something we can clearly grasp. © 2020 Anchorage Daily News. You don’t have a Christian Science Monitor At Aialik Bay, the finger of water fed by Kenai Fjords' Aialik Glacier and other glaciers, old fish bones have recorded the story of marine waters warming since the early Industrial Age. Partnered with Alaska Geographic and local tour boat company to sell a climate change response DVD at visitor centers The group used the glacier to exit the icefield, and the name stuck. 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