Time-lapse video created

Check this out... (I figured out how to create a time-lapse video of the camera images so enjoy).

Just a little background about these images... A few years ago some of the student's along with

Professor Steve Roof of Hampshire College built a housing for a camera that is situated on a

Below is Steve at the top with the housing and solar panels on the device.

ledge about 250 feet. This 6 megapixel camera is connected to a big battery (about the size of your standard car battery) that is recharged from a small solar panel placed on top of the housing. Attached to the camera is a logger that is programmed to have the camera take photos twice a day, once at 11 Am and once at 4 PM. Every summer the information the memory cards are swapped and the pictures are taken back to be analyzed and wow'ed at.

(Previous work researchers have done is using basic-photo programs like Photoshop to analyze the rate of melting going on in a cropped section. One can then correlate this to the available weather station loggers that we have set up throughout the valley to get quantitative melt-water rates.

At any rate, click play. The images start around April 5th and stop at July 24th I believe. If you notice, there was snow storms right through May, and the lake wasn't even free of ice until about a week before we arrived here! Keep in mind, the sun had been up for 24-hours a day since mid-April and it took this long to thaw all of the ice.

Here is a shot of me and Steve peeking inside and placing the camera back on its tripod.