Congratulations to Ron Saper who passed his comprehensive exams today!

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 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 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!

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!

Andrew Hamilton (co-supervised by Bernard Laval and Derek Mueller) just defended his PhD in the Department of Civil Engineering. Way to go!!

We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow (1 year term, starting in September 2016) 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 the last decade, ~1000 square km of ice [...]

WIRL member Anna Crawford installed an ice penetrating radar and small meteorological station on PII-A-1-f, a 14 km2 ice island which was grounded 35 km southeast of Qikiqtarjuaq, NU. The field work was completed on 20 October 2015 and daily ice thickness, surface melt and temperature conditions are transmitted daily for remote data collection and [...]