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Tracking Harry Reid’s Glaciers

For the past few years I have been tracking Harry Reid’s glaciers. Harry Fielding Reid was a geologist who studied, among other things, glaciers. In 1901, Reid circumnavigated Mount Hood and Mount Adams to describe and photograph the glaciers. Reid was the first person in the US to establish photograph “stations” of glaciers for the purpose of repeating in the future. The photographs contain important information on past glacier conditions. I am currently working to summarize the complete collection from Reid’s 1901 journey for the Glacier RePhoto Project. This means tracking down the original photo station locations and capturing new photographs. Eliot Glacier, Station 999. Left by H.F. Reid (NSIDC); Rephotography by Hassan Basagic (The Glacier RePhoto Project) I began rephotographing Reid’s work in 2012 on Mount Hood, documenting 8 stations of Eliot, Coe, and Newton Clarke glaciers. Several of his stations had been visited by scientists and photographers over the past decade...