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 [...]