Ellesmere Island – 2017

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

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

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

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

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

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

Camp on the Milne Ice Shelf (J. Kim)

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)

Waiting for mail in Resolute Bay (D. Friedrichs)

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

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

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

Drew Friedrichs sits the plane in Eureka.

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

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

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

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

Peter Wray high up on the NE side of Milne Fiord

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

The weather station at Purple Valley (J. Kim)

‘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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Camping on the Milne Ice Shelf (A. Hamilton)

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

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