Landscape and environmental change in Glacier National Park, Montana, U.S.A.
MacGregor K and Myrbo A. 2019. Landscape and environmental change in Glacier National Park, Montana, U.S.A.. Proceedings of the Keck Geology Consortium. 32:1-6
Glacier National Park (GNP), Montana is sensitive to climate change as observed through glacial retreat (e.g., Key et al., 2002) and ecosystem adjustments (e.g., Klasner and Fagre, 2002), and there is widespread interest in the effects of future climate change in this unique and public space. Our research project was aimed at understanding environmental and climate change variability in near-pristine alpine basins in North America, with the goal of collecting data that is relevant to the debate about landscape response to climate change in the northern Rockies since the last glaciation. The research project has relevance to the research communities in geomorphology, Quaternary geology, glaciology, and paleoclimatology, as well as to the general public interested in climate change since the retreat of Ice Age glaciers.