Jon Riedel, a geologist with the National Park Service at North Cascades National Park, will chat with us about why we value glaciers, how they are changing, how we monitor them, and what changes mean for water supplies. Dr. Riedel established glacier monitoring programs at Olympic (2013), Mount Rainier (2003) and North Cascades (1993) national parks to track changes in more than 500 glaciers, so he has a lot to share!

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Questions can be sent ahead of time to rbishop@wenatcheeriverinstitute.org or typed as a comment during the live video.

Speaker Bio:
Jon Riedel is a geologist with the U.S. National Park Service at North Cascades National Park, and earned a M.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University. The focus of his research during the past 30 years is the response of Washington’s glaciers to climate change, from the last ice age 30,000 years ago to the modern warming climate. Dr. Riedel established glacier monitoring programs at Olympic (2013), Mount Rainier (2003) and North Cascades (1993) national parks to track changes in more than 500 glaciers. Recent publications have quantified changes in volume and runoff from glaciers in several regional watersheds. Jon is also a founding member and president of the Skagit Climate Science Consortium, a nonprofit organization of 13 scientists focused on studying the impacts of climate change in Puget Sound’s largest watershed and making this information available to local decision makers.