Ellesmere Island – 2017

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

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

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

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

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

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

Peter Wray high up on the NE side of Milne Fiord

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

Camp on the Milne Ice Shelf (J. Kim)

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

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

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

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

Waiting for mail in Resolute Bay (D. Friedrichs)

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

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

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

Drew Friedrichs sits the plane in Eureka.

Camping on the Milne Ice Shelf (A. Hamilton)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The weather station at Purple Valley (J. Kim)

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