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 [...]
<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!
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 [...]
