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Organized in 1948, by the American Geographical Society, JIRP was led by Glaciologist Maynard Malcolm Miller (now 30), who decided that the Juneau Ice Field was an ideal subject for a long-range study of glaciers. It is comparatively accessible, only twelve miles from Juneau. Out of the huge field (700 sq. mi.) flow at least eleven glaciers, ten of which are slowly receding. The eleventh, which particularly intrigued the scientists, is the great Taku glacier, which has advanced more than 3½ miles in the last 50 years...
...JIRP is still a young project, which Glaciologist Miller thinks should be continued for at least 50 years. "Glaciers," says Miller, "write autobiographies, and we're just beginning to read them...
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