Ellesmere Island – 2019

Looking south toward the Ellesmere ice cap. Photo: Jérémie Bonneau

Camp site in Purple Valley, view from above. Photo: Jérémie Bonneau

Drew Friedrichs and Jérémie Bonneau “hole melting” to retrieve instruments. Photo: Derek Mueller

Looking west toward Milne Glacier. Photo: Jérémie

Jérémie Bonneau, Yulia Antropova and Drew Friedrichs waiting for the ride home. Photo: Derek Mueller

Looking east toward the Ellesmere ice cap. Photo: Jérémie Bonneau

Drew Friedrichs retrieving camera. Photo: Jérémie Bonneau

Jérémie Bonneau, Derek Mueller, Steve Page and Drew Friedrichs. Photo: Yulia Antropova

Jérémie Bonneau preparing a mooring line for deployment. Photo: Drew Friedrichs

Jérémie Bonneau, Yulia Antropova, Steve Page and Drew Friedrichs. Photo: Derek Mueller

A wolf inspecting the airstrip. Photo: Derek Mueller

Looking south toward the Ellesmere ice cap. Photo: Jérémie Bonneau

Jérémie Bonneau picking up a camera installed on top of Mega Nunatak (unofficial name). Photo: Derek Mueller

Drew Friedrichs, Yulia Antropova and Derek Mueller preparing the ice penetrating radar. Photo: Jérémie Bonneau

Looking west toward a Milne Glacier tributary glacier. Photo: Jérémie Bonneau

Looking north to Milne Glacier from 5000 feet up. The ice covered Arctic ocean visible below the horizon. Photo: Jérémie Bonneau

Arrived in Purple Valley. Yulia Antropova making sure we have everything. Photo: Jérémie Bonneau

Looking south toward tributary glaciers. Photo: Jérémie Bonneau

Drew Friedrichs preparing the ROV for some under-ice exploration. Photo: Jérémie Bonneau

Looking west toward Milne Glacier (right) and a tributary glacier. Photo: Jérémie Bonneau

Weather station and hotel room on the ice shelf. Photo: Derek Mueller

Drew Friedrichs after successful recovery, maintenance and deployment of the ice shelf mooring. Photo: Jérémie Bonneau

Derek Mueller pulling up the epishelf lake mooring. Photo: Jérémie Bonneau

Derek Mueller deploying a tracking GPS (Cryologger) on an iceberg. Photo: Jérémie Bonneau

Waterfall and icefall close to camp. (approximative height: 150 m). Photo: Jérémie Bonneau

FHN on an iceberg to deploy a tracking GPS (Cryologger). Photo: Jérémie Bonneau

Weather station on Milne Glacier. Photo: Derek Mueller

Looking north at a rift in Milne Ice shelf. The ice shelf broke up to the northwest of there along another rift in July 2020. Photo: Derek Mueller

A lemming enjoying the summer sun. Photo: Derek Mueller

Derek Mueller testing his weapon in case of a polar bear encounter. Photo: Jérémie Bonneau

Looking south at a rift in Milne Ice shelf. This rift formed in 2009 and got progressively wider. In July 2020 the ice shelf broke up further north of this fracture. Photo: Derek Mueller

Drew Friedrichs kissing his trophy of “Best 2019 hole melting performance in the 0-2 m depth category”. Photo: Jérémie Bonneau