News
August 11, 2016
ACSP research director, Rebecca Cole, will serve as the next Director of the Las Cruces Research Station and Wilson Botanical Garden in Costa Rica starting in October, 2016. She will continue to work with ACSP in Peru and with a new focus on education, research and conservation in Costa Rica.
April 10, 2016
ACSP Science is being carried out by students at Central Wyoming University. Students from Central Wyoming College on the Interdisciplinary Climate Change Expedition (ICCE) researched various hydrological aspects of the glacier and high mountain environment including human occupations of the area during the last twelve thousand years. Their lab? The Dinwoody Glacier near Gannett Peak in Wyoming's Wind River Range.
January 26, 2016
Voltaic: Measuring Black Carbon and its impacts on glacial melt
January 21, 2016
Article in the Boulder Weekly: Melting Cordillera Blanca
October 20, 2015
The American Climber Science Program is teaming up with the National Outdoor Leadership School to conduct measurements of black carbon and dust on glaciers in the Patagonian Andes. NOLS-Patagonia offers courses in mountain regions throughout the Patagonian Andes normally ranging from Rio Futaleufú to Punta Arenas, Latitude 43º to 55º and will include measurements of light absorbing particles in collaboration with ACSP as part of their courses. NOLS-Patagonia is very supportive of ACSP research efforts on this topic and is very interested in how glaciers “down south” are being affected by black carbon. This research opportunity was initiated through the aid of collaborating scientist Jacki Klancher from Central Wyoming College and data collected will be highly useful to the PISAC Initiative.
October 20, 2015
Measurements and Impacts of Black Carbon on Tropical Glaciers
October 19, 2015
Dr. Carl Schmitt gave a talk at Neptune Mountaineering in Boulder, Colorado
February 12, 2015
New publication on glacier research in Peru: Measurements of light-absorbing particles on the glaciers in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru
January 23, 2015
An interview with Exec. Director John All about science, climbing, and the recent climbing season in Nepal:ClimbSkiBoulder Magazine
November 11, 2014
Director Dr. John All was quoted in this month's National Geographic: Sorrow on the Mountain
November 3, 2014
Here is another paper that the ACSP team has published recently. While Africa doesn't have the highest mountains, the dangers are no less real: Disentangling environmental variables from land managment decisions in changing semi-arid savanahs of Southern Africa
June 5, 2014
New article from the Molina Center for Energy and the Environment about our research efforts in Peru: MCE2
May 29, 2014
NPR interview: Doing Science in the wild
Video
Videos from ACSP Expeditions 2011-2015
Measurements and Impacts of Black Carbon on Tropical Glaciers: Presentation at the National Center for Atmospheric Research
How to collect and filter samples to measure Black Carbon for ACSP mountain research
Melting glaciers: Studying Black Carbon in the Cordillera Blanca
Himalaya Crevasse Fall 2014 The Rest of the Story
Quilcayhunaca- Cordillera Blanca 2013
Yanpaccha! - Cordillera Blanca 2011
Crossing the last river -Costa Rica C2C 2014
Exploring Loma Linda- Costa Rica C2C 2014
The Second Bridge - Costa Rica C2C 2014
Melodies at Vallunaraju - Cordillera Blanca 2012
Climate change on Pisco - Cordillera Blanca 2012
Climbing Alpamayo- Peru 2012
Peru Environmental Expedition - Cordillera Blanca 2011
Clip1 from Ishinca Valley 2013