Principal Investigator:Koerner, Roy M Licensed Year(s):2008
2007
2006200520042003 Summary:
This project is part of a glacier program covering four ice caps and one glacier, one of the ice caps being in the Northwest Territories (Melville Ice Cap). The work involves measuring poles drilled into the ice to see if more ice and snow is melting than it is accumulating. These data are an excellent indicator of climate change. The indications so far are that, although the ice cap is getting sm...