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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

New modelling paper on Milne Fiord epishelf lake

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!!

By |2021-08-30T13:07:08-04:00August 30th, 2021|Uncategorized|0 Comments

New paper on Milne Fiord

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

By |2021-06-28T15:22:00-04:00June 28th, 2021|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Congratulations to Ada Loewen, recipient of the Hobson Award

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 [...]

By |2022-06-08T10:04:17-04:00June 8th, 2021|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Mourning the loss of Doug King

We are grieving the loss of our colleague and friend Doug King who died of cancer on May 12th, 2021. Doug was often involved in WIRL research, as co-supervisor, committee member and examiner for many of our students. Doug was also passionate about music and played drums in a band with Murray.  He was a [...]

By |2021-05-17T15:22:12-04:00May 17th, 2021|Uncategorized|0 Comments

In memory of Steve Page

We are saddened that our 2019 Milne Fiord (Ellesmere Island) field team member and helicopter pilot, Steve Page, was killed in an accident a few days ago near Resolute.  We had a great, but all too brief, time with him in the field.  Steve was generous, helpful, and fun-loving.  He was curious, was interested in [...]

By |2021-05-06T06:54:19-04:00May 6th, 2021|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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