Ep. 6 Martin Truffer and the Surging Malaspina Glacier - Listen -

Ep. 6 Martin Truffer and the Surging Malaspina Glacier

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Martin Truffer is a Glaciologist here at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute. He reports that in some places the glacier is more than three thousand feet deep, describes how his group is monitoring its progress and speculates about what might happen in the future with this massive glacier in Southcentral Alaska. (29 Minutes)

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