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 [...]
Congratulations to Gregory Lewis-Paley on successfully defending his MSc thesis: Ice island variability in polarimetric synthetic aperture radar: An exploratory analysis to improve detection and ice classification
PhD student and WIRL member Anna Crawford is a co-author on an article recently published in Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans (2015), entitled “Wind-driven upwelling around grounded tabular icebergs”. Anna visited the article’s field subject, ‘Petermann Ice Island-B’, in 2011 and 2012. […]
We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow (1 year term, starting in January 2016) and a PhD student (starting in September 2015) 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 [...]
Murray Richardson's band Cousin John played at a local Ottawa bar Irene's tonight. It was their first gig! Pictured are Geoff Cass, Doug King (DGES Dept. Chair), Murray and Ryan Davies. Band member John Gillies is not pictured, but could be heard (you had to be there!).
Our ice island research was profiled in the May 2015 Sustaining Arctic Observing Network (SAON) Results Bulletin. This circular, managed by APECS Canada and the Canadian Polar Commission, provides updates to the Arctic research community and decision-makers on policy-relevant science, monitoring and assessment activities in the Canadian Arctic. […]
Stan Paterson Award in Glaciology The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies is proud to congratulate graduate student Jill Rajewicz on receipt of the 2015 Stan Paterson Award in Glaciology awarded by the Canadian Geophysical Union. The Stan Paterson Scholarship in Canadian Glaciology honours Dr. Stan Paterson, a preeminent Canadian Glaciologist who has worked extensively on glaciers in [...]
Check out the massive changes occurring in Canada's High Arctic! Michel Paquette, Daniel Fortier, Derek R. Mueller, Denis Sarrazin and Warwick F. Vincent (2015) Rapid disappearance of perennial ice on Canada's most northern lake. Geophysical Research Letters https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014GL062960/full
Congratulations to Miriam Richer-McCallum on successfully defending her MSc thesis: Discriminating different ice types with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imagery along the northern coast of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada
Congratulations to Adam Garbo on being awarded an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award for his work this summer on the Milne Glacier, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut!
