Glaciers and glaciated regions

There are a host of resources on Dr Bethan Davies’ personal website, www.AntarcticGlaciers.org. These resources target the majority of the A-Level Glaciated Landscapes syllabus, including glacial landforms, glacier processes including mass balance and ice flow, and information on global glaciers and the Antarctic Ice sheet.

Global glacier recession

The video below shows Bethan talking about Glaciers and Climate Change. It summarises global glaciers, and how they are changing, before discussing how this glacier recession affects water resources for one third of the world’s population. This is relevant to the A-Level syllabus on glaciated landscapes.

There are more details in this article in The Conversation. Here, Bethan Davies writes about global glacier recession and how it is putting the world’s freshwater supply at risk. This provides more information on how globally, the melting of glaciers endangers the water supply for 1.9 billion people.

Glacier mass balance

Glaciers are precious natural resources, providing vital water to millions of people and countless ecosystems across the planet. But almost all glaciers around the world are shrinking as global temperatures increase.

In this video, together with glaciologists Dr Bethan Davies and Dr Simon Cook, we take a closer look at glacier systems and how they respond to climate change, including:

– Where and how glaciers form

– Accumulation and ablation

– The equilibrium line

– Glacier mass balance

– How glaciers respond to changes in climate.”