Quelccaya Ice Cap
News and notes on the climate of Quelccaya Ice Cap.
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Update on glacier recession
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Oh, how I miss Quelccaya! It has been three years since we've been able to do fieldwork at Quelccaya Ice Cap, a result o...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Recession continues
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These two Sentinel-2 images show changes over 4.5 years at a portion of Quelccaya's western margin. The view includes Lonn...
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
The importance of fieldwork
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White-fronted Ground Tyrant (Muscisaxicola albifrons) with crane fly larvae and adults Since first visiting Quelccaya in 2003, the objectiv...
Thursday, October 8, 2020
Update (with Cranefly news)
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Our AWS on Quelccaya has been decommissioned, and everything except deeply-buried tower tubing has been removed. Meteorological ...
Friday, December 13, 2019
Quelccaya Images
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A new index (of sorts) has been compiled to better organize Quelccaya images depicting the weather station, snowpit measurements...
Thursday, January 24, 2019
New paper: birds & glaciers at Quelccaya
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Important scientific information has been emerging from research at Quelccaya Ice Cap for nearly 50 years, from ice core records, glacia...
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Seasonal change
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The second half of September at Quelccaya is typically characterized by increasing snowfall, as the dry season concludes. Cloudiness increa...
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