Following the news of the Milne Ice Shelf calving event in July, Science just published a Perspective by Warwick Vincent and Derek Mueller that calls for enhanced conservation of vulnerable ice-dependent ecosystems in both the marine and terrestrial environment along the planet's northern-most coastline. This region, known as the "Last Ice Area" (from northern Greenland [...]
We are seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow or Research Associate (1 year term, starting in January 2021) to develop and implement a local, operational model of Arctic landfast sea ice break-up. Landfast sea ice plays an important role in the lives of Inuit living in Canada’s Arctic; acting as a platform for transportation to and from [...]
Ada Loewen recently defended her MSc thesis "Landfast Sea Ice Break-up Processes in Admiralty Inlet, NU". Well done! You can read more about her work here.
Derek Mueller, Adrienne White, Luke Copland, Jérémie Bonneau and Andrew Hamilton all commented on the recent break-up of the Milne Ice Shelf. Here are some selected stories (there are too many to post): CTV - Canada's last remaining intact ice shelf collapses Globe and Mail - Collapse of Canadian ice shelf a sign of climate [...]
A press release with further details on the Milne Ice Shelf break-up just went out. As well, check out this web page that has more background information, satellite images, plus videos and photos (of the ice shelf last year)!
Sadly, Milne Ice Shelf has calved recently. Here is the announcement from our colleague Dr. Adrienne White at the Canadian Ice Service. https://twitter.com/ECCC_CIS/status/1290045576692658176?cxt=HJwWgMCj7b7nlOcjAAAA It is lucky that we were not on the ice shelf when this happened, our camp area and instruments were all destroyed in this event. For more information on this event see: [...]
Congratulations to Anna Crawford on the publication of her paper "Ice island thinning: Rates and model calibration with in situ observations from Baffin Bay, Nunavut" in The Cryosphere. doi:10.5194/tc-14-1067-2020
New paper on the stationary Ice Penetrating Radar that we used in our ice island research: Mingo, L., Flowers, G., Crawford, A., Mueller, D., & Bigelow, D. (2020). A stationary impulse-radar system for autonomous deployment in cold and temperate environments. Annals of Glaciology, 1-9. doi:10.1017/aog.2020.2
Check out the newest ice island drift research by Reza Zeinali Torbati, Ian Turnbull, Rocky Taylor and Derek Mueller on the "Evaluation of the relative contribution of metocean forcings to the drift of ice islands offshore Newfoundland" in the Journal of Glaciology. doi:10.1017/jog.2019.96
This week, Jesse Smith defended his thesis on "Modelling ice island calving events with Finite Element Analysis". Well done!
