Ellesmere Island – 2018
Jérémie taking a break on the climb along the ridge west of our Purple Valley camp Photo credit: Derek Mueller
Jérémie trying to free the Milne Fiord epishelf lake mooring from the ice Photo credit: Yulia Antropova
One of our precise GPS stations on the Milne Glacier. This station is controlled by a Cryologger (made by Adam Garbo) Photo credit: Jérémie Bonneau
View up the Milne Glacier from the east side near the grounding line Photo credit: Jérémie Bonneau
Rifting of the Milne Glacier just below its grounding line Photo credit: Jérémie Bonneau
Mountain avens on the ridge overlooking the Milne Glacier and one of its tributaries Photo credit: Yulia Antropova
A small meltwater lake on the tributary glacier near our summer landing strip taken from the ridge behind camp Photo credit: Derek Mueller
Looking up Milne Fiord from our ice shelf camp Photo credit: Jérémie Bonneau
Drew profiling the water column through a crack in the ice near the Milne Glacier grounding line Photo credit: Jérémie Bonneau
Derek and Yulia scouting out a route to do radar on the Milne Ice Shelf Photo credit: Jérémie Bonneau
‘Mega Nunatak’ from the ridge west of our camp site Photo credit: Jérémie Bonneau
Jérémie profiling the temperature and salinity of the ocean offshore of Milne Fiord Photo credit: Yulia Antropova
Looking west from the ridge west of our camp near the airstrip Photo credit: Jérémie Bonneau
A pristine meltwater lake on the surface of the Milne Ice Shelf Photo credit: Yulia Antropova
Drew’s tent on the Milne Ice Shelf Photo credit: Yulia Antropova
Our camp on the Milne Ice Shelf Photo credit: Jérémie Bonneau
Our ice shelf camp with the radar set up and ready to go and the weather station undergoing testing near the tent Photo credit: Yulia Antropova
Sediment traps ready for processing. We have since replaced these with a better design Photo credit: Yulia Antropova
‘Mega Nunatak’ looms large over the fog layers and Milne Glacier Photo credit: Jérémie Bonneau
Our camp at the summer strip in Purple Valley Photo credit: Yulia Antropova
Our camera installation overlooking the Milne Glacier grounding line and rifts in the ice tongue Photo credit: Yulia Antropova
Flying over the Milne Ice Shelf Photo credit: Yulia Antropova
A view of the Milne Glacier grounding line. Photo credit: Yulia Antropova
Jérémie and Derek discuss science as they wait for the GPS to take a precise position of the stakes we monitor in the ice Photo credit: Yulia Antropova
Drew using the hole melter to recover our ice shelf channel mooring Photo credit: Jérémie Bonneau
Broken pieces of the Petersen Ice Shelf viewed on our flight south Photo credit: Yulia Antropova
Derek overlooks the Milne Glacier from a peak along the ridge to the west of our Purple Valley camp site Photo credit: Jérémie Bonneau
Nadia in FHN coming in to land Photo credit: Jérémie Bonneau