i'm meeting up with university of alaska southeast scientists eran hood and abby watts.so excited! they've invited me to tag along as they conduct their research on the changing environment here. oh, yes, here we go! just look out there. 0h, we're going to be in for such a fun time. so, we're just coming into view now of mendenhall glacier, which is about 13 miles wide — incredible — and it's one of the many thousands of glaciers in alaska. this basin that we're coming into, all this area that's collapsed, this was completely full of water. and it all rushed out underneath the glacier down into juneau. last summer, water amounting to about 30,000 0lympic swimming pools surged from the glacier down intojuneau... 0h! there it goes, there it goes. gasping ..causing catastrophic damage and ripping homes from the banks of the river. with the glacierjust 13 miles from downtown juneau, the question for locals now is what the future may hold — particularly amid a changing climate. so, it sounds like these glaciers are losing a fair bit of water. yeah, that's right. where we're w