Ellesmere Island – 2017

Camping on the Milne Ice Shelf (A. Hamilton)

Peter Wray changes persona when his feet touch the Arctic Ocean (D. Friedrichs)

A newly installed mooring collects data through the Milne Ice Shelf (D. Friedrichs)

Andrew Hamilton getting ready to profile through a natural crack in the ice (J. Kim)

Drew Friedrichs, Peter Wray and Andrew Hamilton wait in Eureka for refueling (J. Kim)

The Milne Glacier taken from a helicopter (P. Wray)

Setting up a seismometer on the northeast side of Milne Fiord (D. Friedrichs)

Drew Friedrichs catching some rays at a seismometer installation site high above Milne Fiord (J. Kim)

The weather station at Purple Valley (J. Kim)

A grey day on the ice shelf (P. Wray)

Camp on the Milne Ice Shelf (J. Kim)

A panorama of the view from the top of ‘MegaNunatak’ looking northwest (A. Hamilton)

‘MegaNunatak’ looms above a small lake adjacent to the Milne Glacier (A. Hamilton)

Helicopter drops the crew off to monitor ice ablation (D. Friedrichs)

Small bird perches on an erratic among the purple saxifrage in Purple Valley (D. Friedrichs)

Stepping over a small crack on the Milne Glacier (A. Hamilton)

Drew Friedrichs suntans above his waders in Purple Valley (P. Wray)

Hiking over a moraine near Purple Valley (A. Hamilton)

A panorama of the view from the top of ‘MegaNunatak’ looking southeast (A. Hamilton)

Not every mooring recovery goes smoothly! (P. Wray)

Peter Wray using ice penetrating radar on the Milne Ice Shelf (J. Kim)

Ice cliffs in the rift between the detached Milne Ice tongue and the glacier (J. Kim)

Flying in over the Milne Glacier and tributary (A. Hamilton)

Watching the helicopter from a seismometer installation site (J. Kim)

The mighty north peak of “MegaNunatak” (A. Hamilton)

Mountains between Milne Fiord and Yelverton Inlet (A. Hamilton)

Drew Friedrichs (UCDavis) proudly holds the Open ROV that explored under the Milne Ice Shelf

Water profiling through a crack in the Milne Ice Shelf (A. Hamilton)

Waiting for mail in Resolute Bay (D. Friedrichs)

A lake at the margin of the Milne Glacier (P. Wray)

Drew Friedrichs sits the plane in Eureka.

Andrew Hamilton looks at a pond in the rift zone of the Milne Ice Tongue (J. Kim)

Relaxing on the ice shelf after breaking camp (J. Kim)

A deep melt channel on the Milne Glacier (A. Hamilton)

Peter Wray high up on the NE side of Milne Fiord

Peter Wray behaving erratically in Purple Valley (D. Friedrichs)

Jinsuk Kim at the mooring in the middle of the Milne Fiord epishelf lake (A. Hamilton)

Open water near the southern edge of the Milne Ice Shelf (J. Kim)