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New publication on our iceberg tracking beacon design

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!

By |2024-02-22T15:39:05-05:00February 22nd, 2024|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Canadian Geographic covers our Milne Fiord fieldwork

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!

By |2023-12-16T09:42:14-05:00December 16th, 2023|Uncategorized|0 Comments

WIRL mourns the passing of Mishak Allurut

We are saddened to hear that our friend and colleague Mishak Allurut passed away on July 13. Mishak was a keen ice observer, a research champion, and was especially interested in having science augment Inuit Knowledge. He was a strong supporter and collaborator for the Landfast Ice Breakup project. We were just getting started getting [...]

By |2023-07-24T10:14:58-04:00July 24th, 2023|Uncategorized|0 Comments

A photo of Milne Fiord nets photo-journalist Dustin Patar the inaugural CJF-Edward Burtynsky Award

Journalist Dustin Patar, who joined our team on Ellesmere Island last summer, has been named the recipient of the Burtynsky Award.  This new award, adjudicated by the Canadian Journalism Foundation, recognizes impactful climate photography from around the globe. For more about the award see:  https://cjf-fjc.ca/edward-burtynsky-award-for-climate-photojournalism/ For more stunning photos from Dustin, check out:  https://thenarwhal.ca/milne-arctic-ice-shelf-collapse/ And [...]

By |2023-04-17T22:09:35-04:00April 17th, 2023|Uncategorized|0 Comments

2 new papers in the journal Arctic

Two new papers have just come out in the March issue of Arctic.  One, led by Anna Crawford, on ice island drift patterns and how they can be used to look for issues with bathymetric products (https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic76227) and another one, led by Emmelie Paquette, that uses Canadian Ice Service ice charts in a unique way [...]

By |2023-03-20T14:41:11-04:00March 20th, 2023|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Media coverage of Milne Fiord work

This summer there were a few reports from Milne Fiord about our ongoing work there from Dustin Patar, freelance journalist and team member.  See this stunning photo essay in the Narwhal and this CBC North news story that also aired in Inuktut. And also, former WIRL grad student, Dr. Anna Crawford, now a Leverhulme Fellow [...]

By |2022-09-25T14:07:12-04:00September 25th, 2022|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Calder Patterson successfully defends his MSc thesis

Congrats to Calder Patterson who just defended his MSc thesis "A statistical analysis of landfast sea ice breakout events at the northern floe edge of Admiralty Inlet, Nunavut". Well done!   You can learn more about WIRL's landfast sea ice project here

By |2022-01-14T14:54:21-05:00January 14th, 2022|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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