A press release with further details on the Milne Ice Shelf break-up just went out. As well, check out this web page that has more background information, satellite images, plus videos and photos (of the ice shelf last year)!
Sadly, Milne Ice Shelf has calved recently. Here is the announcement from our colleague Dr. Adrienne White at the Canadian Ice Service. https://twitter.com/ECCC_CIS/status/1290045576692658176?cxt=HJwWgMCj7b7nlOcjAAAA It is lucky that we were not on the ice shelf when this happened, our camp area and instruments were all destroyed in this event. For more information on this event see: [...]
Congratulations to Anna Crawford on the publication of her paper "Ice island thinning: Rates and model calibration with in situ observations from Baffin Bay, Nunavut" in The Cryosphere. doi:10.5194/tc-14-1067-2020
New paper on the stationary Ice Penetrating Radar that we used in our ice island research: Mingo, L., Flowers, G., Crawford, A., Mueller, D., & Bigelow, D. (2020). A stationary impulse-radar system for autonomous deployment in cold and temperate environments. Annals of Glaciology, 1-9. doi:10.1017/aog.2020.2
Check out the newest ice island drift research by Reza Zeinali Torbati, Ian Turnbull, Rocky Taylor and Derek Mueller on the "Evaluation of the relative contribution of metocean forcings to the drift of ice islands offshore Newfoundland" in the Journal of Glaciology. doi:10.1017/jog.2019.96
This week, Jesse Smith defended his thesis on "Modelling ice island calving events with Finite Element Analysis". Well done!
Congratulations to Anna Crawford on the publication of her paper "The aftermath of Petermann Glacier calving events (2008–2012): Ice island size distributions and meltwater dispersal" in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014388
On Nov. 10, Anna Crawford received her PhD and Martin St-Amant, Keegan Smith, Cameron Samson and Derek Tokarski received MSc degrees. Congratulations to all of you and best of luck in all your future endeavours!
Adam Garbo's Cryologger beacons are featured this month on the Rock Seven blog. Rock Seven makes the Iridium modems that send data from the beacons to us scientists! To see the data from the beacons that were deployed in September from the CCGS Amundsen go to: http://cryologger.org/
Jesse Smith and Adam Garbo just got back from the Amundsen science cruise. They had lots of success including deploying 6 iceberg tracking beacons, conducting 4.5 km of ice island radar surveys and organizing the recovery our stationary ice penetrating radar with the help of Abby Dalton, Claire Bernard-Grand'Maison (UOttawa), ArcticNet Executive Director Leah Braithwaite [...]
