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Award-winning, marketing savvy, popular author known for science books. Clever science picture book blends fascinating science facts with humor. Introduces readers to horned mountains, racing stripes, boulder lifting and incredible creatures. Packaging will be fun and attractive, making it a good choice for nature/gift stores and trade in regions with glaciers: AK, CA, CO, ID, MT, OR, WA, WY (and Internationally) and historic iceburg flow zones where moraines are source of tourism: IL, IN, MN, ND, NV, OH, OR, WI. Also saleable at ski resorts (where shopping is popular and many are located on glaciers.) Synopsis: Story of Flo the glacier as she grows, shrinks, and moves to reach the sea eventually. Also shows other animals that live on glaciers. Iceworms in margins supplement the story with earth science facts. Backmatter: more about glaciers, climate change and how we can help, and what iceworms are.

Glaciers are considered a key and an iconic indicator of climate change. The World Glacier Monitoring Service has noted that global alpine balance has been negative for 35 consecutive years. This highlights the dire future that alpine glaciers face. The goal of this volume is to tell the story, glacier by glacier, of response to climate change from 1984-2015. Of the 165 glaciers examined in 10 different alpine regions, 162 have retreated significantly. It is evident that the changes are significant, not happening at a «glacial» pace, and are profoundly affecting alpine regions. There is a consistent result that reverberates from mountain range to mountain range, which emphasizes that although regional glacier and climate feedbacks differ, global changes are driving the response. This book considers ten different glaciated regions around the individual glaciers, and offers a different tune to the same chorus of glacier volume loss in the face of climate change.

Glacier Science and Environmental Change is an authoritative and comprehensive reference work on contemporary issues in glaciology. It explores the interface between glacier science and environmental change, in the past, present, and future. Written by the world’s foremost authorities in the subject and researchers at the scientific frontier where conventional wisdom of approach comes face to face with unsolved problems, this book provides: state-of-the-art reviews of the key topics in glaciology and related disciplines in environmental change cutting-edge case studies of the latest research an interdisciplinary synthesis of the issues that draw together the research efforts of glaciologists and scientists from other areas such as geologists, hydrologists, and climatologists color-plate section (with selected extra figures provided in color at www.blackwellpublishing.com/knight). The topics in this book have been carefully chosen to reflect current priorities in research, the interdisciplinary nature of the subject, and the developing relationship between glaciology and studies of environmental change. Glacier Science and Environmental Change is essential reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate research students, and professional researchers in glaciology, geology, geography, geophysics, climatology, and related disciplines.