While Wrangell High School students involved in monitoring the Shakes Glacier may have been iced out this year, the program has plans for the data they have collected.
Local high school students have participated in using survey equipment to monitor the glaciers in Petersburg and Wrangell for years. Petersburg students have measured the LeConte Glacier since 1983, and over the years have helped – and received help from -- the University of Alaska Southeast. The Wrangell program has monitored the Shakes Glacier since 2010, and plans to start publishing their data over the Internet in the next y...
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