Ellesmere Island – 2017

Camp on the Milne Ice Shelf (J. Kim)

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

The weather station at Purple Valley (J. Kim)

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

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

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

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

Camping on the Milne Ice Shelf (A. Hamilton)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Drew Friedrichs sits the plane in Eureka.

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

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

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)

Waiting for mail in Resolute Bay (D. Friedrichs)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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