About 

The Glacier RePhoto Project seeks to summarize the existing glacier repeat photographic record throughout the American West. The objectives are to organize historical repeat photographs, their locations, and photographic attributes into a database and acquire new repeat photographs. Repeat photographs have been collected intermittently over the past century. However, the photographs are scattered in various photo collections, archives, and reports, which result in a fragmented view of glacier change. This database provides an organized solution by maintaining the photographs and associated metadata, including geographic coordinates, in a central location. There are currently 292 known stations in the American West with over 1400 photographs taken at those stations. 

Database

The glacier repeat photography database stores photograph information by location, known as a repeat photograph station. The database contains two tables: one table for photo stations and a second table of photographs.  The number of photos taken from each station range between 2 and 33.  See the Documentation page for more information.

This project was created by Hassan Basagic, with funding from a Mazamas Research Grant and an American Alpine Club Nikwax Alpine Bellwether Grant in 2012. The project was a collaboration with Andrew Fountain and the Glaciers of the American West Project at Portland State University (//glaciers.us).

Images

Below are selected glacier repeat photographs from the American West. If you are interested in using these images or would like to request prints, please contact Hassan Basagic.

Hayden Glacier, Three Sisters: Station 809 (USGS, 1903; The Glacier RePhoto Project, 2018)