Principal Investigator:Burgess, David O Licensed Year(s):
2024
Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No. 5851.
The objectives of this integrated monitoring and research project is to provide i) science based
knowledge pertaining to the patterns and rates of climate change, and ii) a quantitative basis for
estimating Canada’s contributions to global sea-level rise.
The glacier mass balance measurements are derived followi...
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By measuring the changing volume of the ice cap and maintaining an Automatic weather station the research team is able to tell how much the climate is changing. The snow sampling tells how clean the snow and air above it is and whether or not it is changing.
While at the Melville ice cap, the team lives in a small hut by the side of the ice cap constructed last year. There is an automatic weath...