Selenga Delta (Lake Baikal, Russia)

Selenga Delta (Lake Baikal, Russia)
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Fraser's work has been widely exhibited at venues including the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Science Foundation.

Much of her aerial imagery is shot with Nikon digital cameras from the open windows of her grandfather's vintage 1946 Ercoupe plane with her father or brother as pilots. This batik of the Selenga Delta in Russia's Lake Baikal, however, was her first to be created using Google Earth as a reference.

Melting of the permafrost on the delta and in this southeast Siberia region will add significantly to the methane concentration in the atmosphere, Pilkey says.

August 10, 2011 10:44 AM PDT

Photo by: Mary Edna Fraser

| Caption by: Leslie Katz

 

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