Ellesmere Island – 2016
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- A great shot of our helicopter pilot Mike Taekema coming in for a landing on the epishelf lake.
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- Low clouds rolling over a tributary glacier leading into the Milne Glacier.
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- Sling load of a Milne Ice Shelf camp move.
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- Outer extent of the Milne Ice Shelf as seen from the helicopter.
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- Ever present mountainous terrain was our backdrop.
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- Jill and Greg starting off on their ice penetrating radar survey. (A.Garbo)
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- The Heucke steam drill came in handy numerous times throughout this field season.
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- The stunning “sail” ice formation.
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- A view of the Milne Ice Shelf camp.
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- UAV tests on the Milne Glacier using a 3DR Iris+.
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- Adam heading to the Purple Valley camp site after servicing time lapse cameras.
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- Milne Glacier camp as fog and inclement weather rolls in.
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- Greg and the “catch of the day” after fishing for sensors frozen into the ice shelf.
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- Snowshoes are your best friend during long hikes on the Milne Ice Shelf.
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- Jill standing amongst one of the many broken areas of the Milne Glacier.
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- Adam cutting a new hole for the epishelf lake mooring buoy.
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- Derek guiding in helicopter pilot Mike Taekema during a camp move from the Milne Ice Shelf.
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- The team ready to head home after a successful field season.
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- A beautiful sunny shot of the Milne Glacier camp.
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- A mother Arctic Fox who was looking for her two cubs at the PCSP base in Resolute, NU.
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- A stopover for fuel in the (almost) always sunny Eureka.
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- A view of Iqaluit from the Sylvia Grinnel
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- Greg walking along the roads of Iqaluit, NU.
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- The weather was so lovely in Purple Valley when we arrived, we didn’t even need our kitchen tent!
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- The team assessing the situation of Jill’s mooring that had partially frozen in over winter.
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- A shot from the air of the Purple Valley camp site.