Fountain Glacier [SEP] continent
Fountain Glacier
Fountain Glacier () is a glacier between Nylen Glacier and Catspaw Glacier in the Asgard Range, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. It flows south into Pearse Valley. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (2004) after Andrew G. Fountain of the Department of Geology, Portland State University, a United States Antarctic Program investigator in glacier mass balance studies of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, 1993–2003.
expeditions to the glacier to map, photograph, and record environmental data. Their work in the caves discovered fir tree seedlings, duck feathers, and extremophiles. The team has brought glaciologists with them including Andrew Fountain, Jason Gulley and Gunnar Johnson.
History & Science.
The Sandy Glacier has lost about 40%, or almost half, of its ice between 1907 and 2004. The expeditions led by Cartaya and McGregor included Andrew Fountain to determine how much ice the glacier was losing per year by placing stakes on the