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4 record(s) found with the tag "glaciology" (multi-year projects are grouped):
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Melville Island South Ice Cap Mass Balance & Snow Pollution
Principal Investigator: Burgess, David O
Licensed Year(s): 2023 2022 2021 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
Summary: 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 thus the air above it and whether 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 weathe...


Mass Balance of Arctic Glaciers and Arctic Pollution
Principal Investigator: Koerner, Roy M
Licensed Year(s): 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003
Summary: The objectives of this ongoing research project are: (a) to monitor climate change by measuring the changing volume of the ice cap and maintaining an automatic weather station, and (b) to monitor air and snow pollution by sampling snow and sending it to be analyzed. Based out of the Polar Continental Shelf Project in Resolute Bay, NU, two personnel will fly by Twin Otter to the ice cap, and liv...


Dynamics and hydrology of a high arctic glacier: John Evans Glacier, Ellesmere Island
Principal Investigator: Sharp, Martin
Licensed Year(s): 1994
Summary: Measurements of the glacier's surface will be taken using ground surveys and radio echo sounding. In addition, data will be collected on the amounts of snow accumulation and meltwater run-off as well as the chemistry of the snow, water and ice. This information will provide us with a better understanding of glaciers in terms of their growth/shrinkage, contribution of water to the local environme...


Ice Core Analysis and Glacier Mass Balance
Principal Investigator: Koerner, Roy M
Licensed Year(s): 1995 1992 1991
Summary: This is a continuing project to gather information to understand the past climate in the high Arctic. The data will also be used to determine the present climatic trends and pollution levels in the snow....


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