Ever wonder how fast the Milne Ice Shelf or Milne Glacier or its ice tongue will melt after major calving events or under various warming scenarios? The answers to these questions and more are in Jérémie Bonneau's new paper in The Cryosphere. Check it out here!
A study, led by Abby Dalton at the Laboratory for Cryopsheric Research at the University of Ottawa examines the drift of iceberg tracks in Nares Strait and Baffin Bay. The study is the first to use a novel Iceberg Beacon Track Database and relies on the Cryologger Ice Tracking Beacon both developed at WIRL. For [...]
A publication was just released on the 'Impact of environmental factors on energy balance and ice growth in winter recreational waterways' in the Journal of Cold Regions Engineering. This study, authored by postdoctoral researcher Elham Nakhostin, is part of the NSERC-funded project Climate Change Effects on the Rideau Canal Skateway led by engineering professor Shawn [...]
A paper led by Ada Loewen detailing the forces at play during landfast ice break-off events in Admiralty Inlet, Nunavut is available in Arctic Science. This analysis used remote sensing and modelling and was informed by Inuit Knowledge from community members in Arctic Bay (Ikpiarjuk). For more information see: Loewen et al. (2025) The role [...]
A new paper in Geophysical Research Letters by Jérémie Bonneau shows the importance of offshore dynamics and buoyant plumes next to the glacier for moving heat into Milne Fiord. This has implications for melting of ice in this glacial fjord and its analogs in Greenland and Antarctica.
Congratulations to PhD candidate Yulia Antropova who just published a study on the grounding line of the Milne Glacier on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. This comprehensive study used InSAR and Ice-penetrating radar to map the grounding line position since the 1960s and reveals a lot of changes since then! You can find out more here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114478
Former WIRL graduate student, Anna Crawford, led this article on predicting the deterioration of ice islands due to the 'footloose-type' calving mechanism. This paper was co-written by Adjunct Research Prof. Greg Crocker and former MSc student Jesse Smith along with Derek Mueller and Till Wagner from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. You can check it out [...]
Congratulations to Jérémie Bonneau on his modelling study of Milne Fiord. He ran a simulation of the ocean circulation and was able to conclude that there are different modes of circulation that switch periodically. You can read about it in his article in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans. The image here shows the [...]
We are pleased to announce the publication of a paper on our "Cryologger" Ice Tracking Beacon in the journal Sensors. This was the culmination of many years of hard work. You can see a map of the beacon tracks here and download the plans to make one here. Well done Adam!
Journalist Dustin Patar's account of our 2022 Milne Fiord field season is now available on the Canadian Geographic web site: https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/last-bastion-of-ice/. It's a great read and the photos are stunning too!
