Ellesmere Island – 2017

The weather station at Purple Valley (J. Kim)

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

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

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

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

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

Waiting for mail in Resolute Bay (D. Friedrichs)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Camping on the Milne Ice Shelf (A. Hamilton)

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

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

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

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)

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

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

Peter Wray high up on the NE side of Milne Fiord

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

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

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

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

Drew Friedrichs sits the plane in Eureka.

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

Camp on the Milne Ice Shelf (J. Kim)

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