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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Congrats Taji on your success at Carleton (BSc Hons in Geomatics!) and your thesis work using remote sensing to look at ice changes in Milne Fiord.  All the best in the future!!

Congratulations to Cameron Fitzpatrick on graduating with a BSc in Geomatics and minor in Computer Science!  You have been a key WIRL member for 4 years and we can't wait so see what you will do next!

Adam Garbo (uOttawa, co-supervised by Luke Copland) defended his MSc thesis: "Validation of the North American Ice Service Iceberg Drift Model".  Great job Adam!

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

Congratulations to PhD student Jérémie Bonneau on publishing "Winter dynamics in an epishelf lake: Quantitative mixing estimates and ice shelf basal channel considerations" in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.  Well Done!!

Congratulations to former WIRL PhD student and postdoc Andrew Hamilton on publishing "Ocean modification and seasonality in a northern Ellesmere Island glacial fjord prior to ice shelf breakup: Milne Fiord" in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans!  Here is the DOI if you want to read more: 10.1029/2020JC016975

PhD candidate Ada Loewen received the George Hobson Memorial Award for Northern Physical Sciences in 2021.  This $2500 award is sponsored by the Northern Scientific Training Program at Polar Knowledge Canada.  Ada's research is on landfast sea ice deterioration and she works out of the community of Ikpiarjuk (Arctic Bay) and Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet).  Congratulations [...]