With funding from the National Park Service, researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Alaska Pacific University have completed an inventory of all glaciers in Denali, using 2010 satellite imagery. Their studies show that the area of glaciers in the park decreased by 8 percent between 1952 and 2010, with most of this loss occurring on small to medium size glaciers at mid elevations (1400-1800 meters elevation, or 4593-5905 feet). A few glaciers increased in area, but this was due to surging, most notably the Muldrow and Peters glaciers. For the higher elevation, larger glaciers, changes are not so dramatic as for the lower elevation, smaller glaciers—at least not yet.
(1400-1800 meters elevation, or 4593-5905 feet).
(1400-1800 meters elevation, or 4593-5905 feet).