A new paper that examines the role of the 'footloose' calving mechanism in ice islands was just published in the Journal of Glaciology. Jesse Smith, compared observed ice island calving events from the Canadian Ice Island Drift, Deterioration and Detection (CI2D3) Database with predictions from a finite element model created by Mahmud Sazidy. Simulated rams [...]
A Colorado University Boulder–led study, published recently in Nature Geoscience, investigates the retreat of Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier and highlights the role of the ice plain bed geometry in this process. In 2023, the glacier retreated at an unprecedented rate, losing a total of 8 kilometres of ice in just two months. Yulia Antropova, a PhD [...]
It has been a while since we posted on social media. It didn't really seem like that much fun anymore as Twitter morphed into X. But now the WIRL site is sharing posts with Bluesky - you can find us here: https://bsky.app/profile/wirlcarleton.bsky.social The twitter feed that we posted to previously has been copied in. Sorry [...]
New research has unlocked some of the mysteries surrounding the basal channel under the Milne Ice Shelf that discharges fresh water from the Milne Fiord epishelf lake to the Arctic Ocean. The analysis titled "Momentum, Heat, and Salt Budgets to Estimate Drag and Transfer Coefficients inside an Ice Shelf Basal Channel" was led by Jérémie [...]
Ever wonder how fast the Milne Ice Shelf or Milne Glacier or its ice tongue will melt after major calving events or under various warming scenarios? The answers to these questions and more are in Jérémie Bonneau's new paper in The Cryosphere. Check it out here!
A study, led by Abby Dalton at the Laboratory for Cryopsheric Research at the University of Ottawa examines the drift of iceberg tracks in Nares Strait and Baffin Bay. The study is the first to use a novel Iceberg Beacon Track Database and relies on the Cryologger Ice Tracking Beacon both developed at WIRL. For [...]
A publication was just released on the 'Impact of environmental factors on energy balance and ice growth in winter recreational waterways' in the Journal of Cold Regions Engineering. This study, authored by postdoctoral researcher Elham Nakhostin, is part of the NSERC-funded project Climate Change Effects on the Rideau Canal Skateway led by engineering professor Shawn [...]
Anna Crawford and Joseph Shoapik published a colourful article on the Royal Museums Greenwich website. This piece explains what we are doing at Milne Fiord and why it matters. Anna is a former WIRL MSc and PhD student and is now a Lecturer at Stirling University in the UK. Joseph is from Grise Fiord and [...]
Jui-Chun 'Freya' Chen's photo of our climate station on the Milne Glacier took home the grand prize in the Science as Art competition this year in Chicago. Freya is a PhD student at the University of Chicago under the supervision of Doug MacAyeal and Sunny Park. She joined the team at Milne Fiord in 2023. [...]
<a href="https://wirl.carleton.ca/people-ice/#JeremieBonneau">Jérémie Bonneau</a> (at UBC, co-supervised by Bernard Laval and Derek Mueller) successfully defended his PhD thesis today! He did a fantastic job and we are looking forward to seeing what he gets up to next!
