Ellesmere Island – 2017

Camp on the Milne Ice Shelf (J. Kim)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Helicopter drops the crew off to monitor ice ablation (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)

Drew Friedrichs sits the plane in Eureka.

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

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

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

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

The weather station at Purple Valley (J. Kim)

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

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

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

Waiting for mail in Resolute Bay (D. Friedrichs)

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

Peter Wray high up on the NE side of Milne Fiord

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

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

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

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

Camping on the Milne Ice Shelf (A. Hamilton)

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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