Ron’s comps
Congratulations to Ron Saper who passed his comprehensive exams today!
Anna Crawford and Greg Crocker at ArcticNet meeting
Anna Crawford presented her work on ice island mapping and co-chaired a session with Luke Copland at the ArcticNet ASM. Greg Crocker also participated in the conference and Laurent Mingo presented on the ice-penetrating radar system he developed for our ice island work.
Derek back from Nansen Ice Shelf
Derek Mueller and Christine Dow (University of Waterloo) just got back from the Nansen Ice Shelf where they spent a month working out of Jang Bogo Station hosted by the Korea Polar Research Institute.
Ron Saper and Anna Crawford return from the field
Ron and Anna came back from a visit to PII-A-1-f on board the CGGS Amundsen. The field work was curtailed by helicopter mechanical issues but they are back safe in Ottawa and we have data!
WIRL team back from Ellesmere Island
Greg Crocker, Jill Rajewicz, Adam Garbo and Derek Mueller are back from Ellesmere Island. They had a productive field season and got lots of great data!
Congrats to Andrew Hamilton
Andrew Hamilton (co-supervised by Bernard Laval and Derek Mueller) just defended his PhD in the Department of Civil Engineering. Way to go!!
Ice island deterioration modelling opportunities
We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow (1 year term, starting in January 2016) and a PhD student (starting in September 2015) to develop and test an ice island deterioration model. Ice islands are extensive (up to several km long) tabular icebergs that break-off of ice shelves and floating ice tongues in the High Arctic. Over [...]
Murray Richardson’s band Cousin John first gig at local Ottawa bar
Murray Richardson's band Cousin John played at a local Ottawa bar Irene's tonight. It was their first gig! Pictured are Geoff Cass, Doug King (DGES Dept. Chair), Murray and Ryan Davies. Band member John Gillies is not pictured, but could be heard (you had to be there!).
Check out the massive changes occurring in Canada’s High Arctic!
Check out the massive changes occurring in Canada's High Arctic! Michel Paquette, Daniel Fortier, Derek R. Mueller, Denis Sarrazin and Warwick F. Vincent (2015) Rapid disappearance of perennial ice on Canada's most northern lake. Geophysical Research Letters https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014GL062960/full
Miriam Richer-McCallum MSc thesis defense
Congratulations to Miriam Richer-McCallum on successfully defending her MSc thesis: Discriminating different ice types with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imagery along the northern coast of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada