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 [...]
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 [...]
Congrats Taji on your success at Carleton (BSc Hons in Geomatics!) and your thesis work using remote sensing to look at ice changes in Milne Fiord. All the best in the future!!
Congratulations to Cameron Fitzpatrick on graduating with a BSc in Geomatics and minor in Computer Science! You have been a key WIRL member for 4 years and we can't wait so see what you will do next!
Adam Garbo (uOttawa, co-supervised by Luke Copland) defended his MSc thesis: "Validation of the North American Ice Service Iceberg Drift Model". Great job Adam!
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
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!!
