Media coverage and outreach
Media Articles (selected)
- Vancouver Sun, B.C.’s iconic Kokanee Glacier in rapid decline, says B.C. scientist
- Wired, It’s Hard to Do Climate Research When Your Glacier Is Melting
- Vancouver Sun, B.C. glaciers 38 per cent thicker than expected, surprising study finds
- GlacierHub, Glaciers in Canada Found To Be Thicker Than Previously Suggested
- PICS, First major study of Columbia Basin reveals glaciers are 38% thicker than originally thought.
- UVIC, Canada’s Columbia glaciers unexpectedly big, but at climate risk.
- Rocky Mountain Goat, Local Glaciers Fading Fast
- Prince George Citizen: UNBC PhD candidate measures glacier change in Columbia River basin also in the UNBC Newsroom
- Rocky Mountain Goat, Columbia Basin glaciers shrinking fast
- Nelson Star, Researchers study Kokanee Glacier
- Revelstoke Review, Our Melting Glaciers
- CBC,Kokanee Beer joins up with science for glacier research and new beer
- CBC Newsroom (video)
- CBC, Study reveals thicker BC glaciers (TV)
- Vancouver Sun, B.C. glaciers 38 per cent thicker than expected, surprising study finds (Video)
- CBC, Wildfires turning Canada’s glaciers black (TV)
- CFUR, The Abstract, Glaciers with Ben Pelto (Radio)
- Climate of Change, Kootenay Co-op Radio, Episode 31, Our Vanishing Glaciers
- CBC, Daybreak South, radio interview starts at 1:04:30, (8 min) .
- CBC, Daybreak North, radio interview starts at 1:51:10 (5 min)
Outreach
- 2021 Canadian Rockies Youth Summit Panel, Climate Change and Glaciers in the Canadian Rockies, Presentation and Q&A
- 2021 Grad school information night, UNBC, Q&A with prospective graduate students
- 2020 Crescent Spur Heliskiing, The state of glaciers and glacier research in British Columbia
- 2019 Backcountry Lodges of British Columbia Association AGM, Kelowna, BC, Glacier Mass Change in the Columbia and Rocky Mountains, Canada
- 2019 Central Interior BC Science Exhibition educational/interactive glacier activity booth
- 2018 Caledonia Nordic Club presentation on glacier research and central BC climate and snowpack trends, to compliment a showing of the Saving Snow documentary
- 2017 UNBC Geography Club, glaciers and climate change presentation to accompany the showing of Chasing Ice
- 2017 Nusdeh Yoh Elementary School, glacier presentation/activities with two classes of 5th-7th grade students
- 2017 Central Interior BC Science Exhibition educational/interactive glacier activity booth
- 2017 Nechako Rotary Club talk, Canadian Glaciers in Decline
- 2016 Kokanee Nature Center, Nelson BC. Oral presentation: Melting Canadian glaciers, what we know and why it matters
- 2016 Association of Canadian Mountain Guides News, Glacier Change Study on Nordic Glacier
- 2015-2017 From a Glacier’s Perspective, Guest blog posts: Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017
Online presentations
