Acknowledgements
The Steering Committee would like to thank the World
Glacier Monitoring Service for their warm hospitality in host-
ing the Steering Committee meeting in Zurich. Thanks to
Wilfried Haeberli, Demian Schneider and Perscheng Assef.
Special thanks to Vladimir Ryabinin, World Meteorological Photos and Graphics
Organization, for final reviews of chapters.
Front cover photos:
Chapter author acknowledgements: Boy fishing, Victoria Island, Canada,
The authors of Chapter 6B Glaciers and Ice Caps are indebted TopFoto/ImageWorks
to all the institutes, organizations and individual research- Aletsch glacier, Switzerland, iStock/
ers that have been providing their data to and make it readily Josef F. Stuefer
available through the World Glacier Monitoring Service. They Mt. Kilimanjaro, Corbis
gratefully acknowledge the thoughtful comments on a first Shanti Stupa, Ladakh, iStock/Falk
version of the chapter of P.G. Knight, M. Kuhn, B. Francou Kienas
and of the Steering Committee. The writing of this chapter
was mainly funded by the Department of Geography, Univer- Back cover photo:
sity of Zurich, Switzerland. Christopher Uglow/UNEP/Still
Pictures
Chapter 6C Ice and Sea Level Change is a contribution to
the CSIRO Climate Change Research Program and the Chapter title page photos:
CSIRO Wealth from Oceans Flagship and was supported by NASA Visible Earth
the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centres
Programme through the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems All maps and graphics by Hugo
Cooperative Research Centre. Ahlenius except where noted.
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