A paper led by Ada Loewen detailing the forces at play during landfast ice break-off events in Admiralty Inlet, Nunavut is available in Arctic Science. This analysis used remote sensing and modelling and was informed by Inuit Knowledge from community members in Arctic Bay (Ikpiarjuk). For more information see: Loewen et al. (2025) The role [...]
A new paper in Geophysical Research Letters by Jérémie Bonneau shows the importance of offshore dynamics and buoyant plumes next to the glacier for moving heat into Milne Fiord. This has implications for melting of ice in this glacial fjord and its analogs in Greenland and Antarctica.
Congratulations to PhD candidate Yulia Antropova who just published a study on the grounding line of the Milne Glacier on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. This comprehensive study used InSAR and Ice-penetrating radar to map the grounding line position since the 1960s and reveals a lot of changes since then! You can find out more here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114478
Former WIRL graduate student, Anna Crawford, led this article on predicting the deterioration of ice islands due to the 'footloose-type' calving mechanism. This paper was co-written by Adjunct Research Prof. Greg Crocker and former MSc student Jesse Smith along with Derek Mueller and Till Wagner from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. You can check it out [...]
Congratulations to Jérémie Bonneau on his modelling study of Milne Fiord. He ran a simulation of the ocean circulation and was able to conclude that there are different modes of circulation that switch periodically. You can read about it in his article in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans. The image here shows the [...]
We are pleased to announce the publication of a paper on our "Cryologger" Ice Tracking Beacon in the journal Sensors. This was the culmination of many years of hard work. You can see a map of the beacon tracks here and download the plans to make one here. Well done Adam!
Journalist Dustin Patar's account of our 2022 Milne Fiord field season is now available on the Canadian Geographic web site: https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/last-bastion-of-ice/. It's a great read and the photos are stunning too!
We are saddened to hear that our friend and colleague Mishak Allurut passed away on July 13. Mishak was a keen ice observer, a research champion, and was especially interested in having science augment Inuit Knowledge. He was a strong supporter and collaborator for the Landfast Ice Breakup project. We were just getting started getting [...]
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 [...]
