Alton Byers
Director of Science and Exploration, The Mountain Institute
Headquarters
The Mountain Institute
3000 Connecticut Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20008
Titles
- Director of Science and Exploration, The Mountain Institute
Education
- PhD, Geography, University of Colorado, 1987
- MA, Geography, Syracuse University, 1979
- BA (cum laude), Geography, University of Colorado, 1975
External Links
Journal Articles
2020
Byers, A. C., M. Bahadur Chand, J. Lala, M. Shrestha, E. Byers and T. Watanabe. 2020. Reconstructing the history of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOF) in the Kanchenjunga Conservation Area, East Nepal: An interdisciplinary approach. Sustainability 12(13):Art. 5407. DOI: 10.3390/su12135407 . (link )
Byers, A. C., E. Byers, M. Shrestha, D. Thapa and B. Sharma. 2020. Impacts of Yartsa gunbu harvsting on alpine ecosystems in the Barun Valley, Makalu-Barun National Park, Nepal. Himalaya 39(2):Art. 8. (link )
Book Chapters
2022
Byers, A. C. and M. Shrestha. 2022. Conservation and restoration of alpine ecosystems in the Himalaya: New challenges for adventure tourism in the 21st century. In: Nyaupane, G. P. and D. J. Timothy eds., Tourism and Development in the Himalaya: Social, Environmental, and Economic Forces. Routledge. ISBN: 978-0367466275.
Presentations
2019
Shrestha, M. and A. C. Byers. 2019. Glacial floods, infrastructures, and sustainability in the Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) National Park and buffer zone, Nepal. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Apr 2019, Washington, DC.
Shrestha, M. and A. C. Byers. 2019. Socio-cryospheric systems of glacial floods and disaster risks in the Mt. Everest region, Nepal. Presentation at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Mar 2019, Portland, OR.
Shrestha, M., I. Thompson and A. C. Byers. 2019. Perceptions and governance of cryospheric hazards in the Mt. Everest region, Nepal. Presentation at the Workshop 2.4.E: Natural hazards’ risk governance under changing framework conditions, International Mountain Conference, Sept 2019, Innsbruck, Austria.