October 2009
CONFERENCE--Members of the research group presented at the Joint Cryo-Ex/IPY meeting in Ottawa, 16-18 October
July 2009
RESULTS--Canadian GLACIODYN publications now listed.
NEWS--News from the Canadian IPY office at the close of the International Polar Year.
DATA--New metadata available on updated Devon Island Ice Cap DEM.
Jan-Feb 2009
DATA-- New updates on data and metadata information.
CONFERENCE--Canadian Glaciodyn PI Martin Sharp hosted the IASC-NAG conference in Kananaskis, Alberta: 16-19 February 2009.
IMAGES--Latest images from the 2008 summer field season.
October 2008
DATA--Webtide results have been validated with field data from a tide logger.
FIELDWORK--New photos posted from the 2008 field season.
July 2008
DATA-- New Radarsat imagery is available of sea ice break-up at the Belcher snout. Thanks to the Canadian Ice Service for providing these images.
OUTREACH-- The GLACIODYN project was featured in a Canwest news article by Margaret Munro.
April & May 2008
OUTREACH-- Co-PI Luke Copland (UOttawa) visted with high school students in Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord to talk about the Glaciodyn project.
January 2008
CONFERENCE--PI Martin Sharp (UAlberta) and co-PI Dave Burgess (CCRS) travelled to Obergurgl, Austria for the annual Workshop on the dynamics and mass budget of Arctic glaciers/ GLACIODYN (IPY) meeting.
December 2007
TIME-LAPSE MOVIES-- Movies of Belcher Glacier's calving front and supraglacial drainage development over the 2007 melt season are now available. Also available is a movie of sea ice concentrations around Devon, summer 2007 (open with WMP). AVHRR NOAA Polar Satellite imagery provided courtesy of Environment Canada.
ICE-SHEETS DAY-- 13 December was Ice Sheets Day. See A, B, C, and D for features on Canadian GLACIODYN researchers.
November 2007
RESEARCH TEAM UPDATE-- Meet our nine grad/undergrad students and four postdocs here.
NEW PERSONNEL-- Martina Schaefer will be joining the project as a postdoctoral fellow with Lev Tarasov (MemorialU).
October 2007
IPY NEWS ARTICLES--Two articles from the Ottawa citizen regarding IPY research and the GLACIODYN project (A and B).
August 2007
IPY NEWS ARTICLE--Co-PI Luke Copland is featured in a University of Ottawa article about IPY research.
RADARSAT SCENES--Provided by the Canadian Ice Service, these scenes show sea-ice breakup around the Devon Ice Cap, and glacier calving and melt.
July 2007
TIME-LAPSE CAMERAS-- A PDF file outlining time-lapse camera installation details and showing initial photos can be viewed here.
NEW PERSONNEL-- Wendy Clavano and Sam Pimentel are the project's newest postdoctoral appointments, working with Martin Sharp (UAlberta) and Gwenn Flowers (SFU), respectively. Josh Padolsky (Trent U) and Angus Duncan (St. Andrew's) will begin MSc research this Sep. under the joint supervision of Sarah Boon (ULeth) and Martin Sharp. Tyler Sylvestre (UOttawa) will begin an MSc this Sep. under the supervision of Luke Copland (UOttawa).
June 2007
REAL-TIME MET DATA-- Now available from an AWS installed in spring 2007 on the Devon Ice Cap summit.
GLACIODYN PRESENTATION CGU-CMOS-AMS--Lev Tarasov (MemorialU) presented a synopsis of the Canadian GLACIODYN project at the CMOS-CGU-AMS Joint Annual Meeting in St. John's, Newfoundland.
April 2007
GLACIODYN PRESENTATION RESOLUTE BAY--Luke Copland (UOttawa) visited Qamartalik K-12 School in Resolute Bay, Nunavut in mid-May to discuss the project with students and teachers.
ESA PROPOSAL APPROVED--The ESA approved our proposal for provision of ERS and EnviSat SAR data for the Belcher Glacier project. Data will be used to map seasonal melt evolution, drainage system development, iceberg calving and fjord sea ice conditions at the Belcher Glacier over the two IPY seasons.
March 2007
GLACIODYN FUNDING--Canada's Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) awarded the Canadian GLACIODYN project $705,579 in research funding over three years (2006-2009).
PI FEATURED ON NSERC PAGE--PI Dr. Martin Sharp was featured on the NSERC webpage discussing his research and the Glaciodyn project.
GLACIODYN PRESENTATION NSERC--PI Martin Sharp presented the research program at an NSERC funding announcement for IPY.
September 2006
DATA COLLECTION UPDATE--Seafloor mapping of the region in front of the Belcher terminus completed by the CCGS Amundsen.
