Mark Carey studies the societal dimensions of climate change, natural disasters, glacier retreat, mountaineering, and water management, especially in the Peruvian Andes but also in many other parts of the world’s mountain ranges. At the University of Oregon, he is an associate professor of histor...
Mark Carey studies the societal dimensions of climate change, natural disasters, glacier retreat, mountaineering, and water management, especially in the Peruvian Andes but also in many other parts of the world’s mountain ranges. At the University of Oregon, he is an associate professor of history and the associate dean of the Clark Honors College. His recent work on glaciers focuses on glacial lake outburst floods in Nepal, ice core drilling in Antarctica and Greenland as well as iceberg monitoring in the North Atlantic and off Newfoundland where the Titanic sank.