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!

Congratulations to Anna Crawford on the publication of her paper "The aftermath of Petermann Glacier calving events (2008–2012): Ice island size distributions and meltwater dispersal" in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.    https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014388

On Nov. 10, Anna Crawford received her PhD and Martin St-Amant, Keegan Smith, Cameron Samson and Derek Tokarski received MSc degrees.  Congratulations to all of you and best of luck in all your future endeavours!

Adam Garbo's Cryologger beacons are featured this month on the Rock Seven blog. Rock Seven makes the Iridium modems that send data from the beacons to us scientists! To see the data from the beacons that were deployed in September from the CCGS Amundsen go to: http://cryologger.org/

Jesse Smith and Adam Garbo just got back from the Amundsen science cruise.  They had lots of success including deploying 6 iceberg tracking beacons, conducting 4.5 km of ice island radar surveys and organizing the recovery our stationary ice penetrating radar with the help of Abby Dalton, Claire Bernard-Grand'Maison (UOttawa), ArcticNet Executive Director Leah Braithwaite [...]

Martin St-Amant successfully defended his MSc thesis on using Structure from Motion Photogrammetry to map sea ice topography from a small UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle).  Congratulations to him and wishing him all the best in his future geomatics career!

A special thanks to Governor General Julie Payette, Leah Braithwaite, Abby Dalton, Claire Bernard-Grand'Maison and others for helping to recover our equipment from ice island PIIA-1-f!   https://twitter.com/GGJuliePayette/status/1036235713862352897