Discovery of a hypersaline subglacial lake complex beneath Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic

A Rutishauser, DD Blankenship, M Sharp… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Subglacial lakes are unique environments that, despite the extreme dark and cold
conditions, have been shown to host microbial life. Many subglacial lakes have been …

Glaciers and nutrients in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago marine system

MP Bhatia, S Waterman, DO Burgess… - Global …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA) is vulnerable to climate warming, and with
over 300 tidewater glaciers, is a hotspot for enhanced glacial retreat and meltwater runoff to …

RADARSAT-2 derived glacier velocities and dynamic discharge estimates for the Canadian High Arctic: 2015–2020

WV Wychen, D Burgess, W Kochtitzky… - Canadian Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
RADARSAT-2 imagery collected each winter from 2015/2016 to 2019/2020 is used to
quantify and characterize the variability in the motion of, and the discharge from, the major …

Misidentified subglacial lake beneath the Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic: A new interpretation from seismic and electromagnetic data

SF Killingbeck, A Rutishauser, MJ Unsworth… - The …, 2024 - tc.copernicus.org
In 2018 the first subglacial lake in the Canadian Arctic was proposed to exist beneath the
Devon Ice Cap, based on the analysis of airborne radar data. Here, we report a new …

[HTML][HTML] Radar sounding survey over Devon Ice Cap indicates the potential for a diverse hypersaline subglacial hydrological environment

A Rutishauser, DD Blankenship, DA Young… - The …, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
Prior geophysical surveys provided evidence for a hypersaline subglacial lake complex
beneath the center of Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic; however, the full extent and …

Intra-and inter-annual variability in dynamic discharge from the Academy of Sciences Ice Cap, Severnaya Zemlya, Russian Arctic, and its role in modulating mass …

P Sánchez-Gámez, FJ Navarro, TJ Benham… - Journal of …, 2019 - cambridge.org
We determined ice velocities for the Academy of Sciences Ice Cap, Severnaya Zemlya,
Russian Arctic, during November 2016–November 2017, by feature-tracking 54 pairs of …

Comparing simple albedo scaling methods for estimating Arctic glacier mass balance

SN Williamson, L Copland, L Thomson… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mass balance measurements in the Canadian Arctic are limited, particularly for smaller
glaciers, which introduces significant uncertainties in regional mass balance assessment …

Anomalous surface elevation, velocity, and area changes of Split Lake Glacier, western Prince of Wales Icefield, Canadian High Arctic

W Van Wychen, DAM Hallé, L Copland, L Gray - Arctic Science, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
Here we use a variety of remote sensing data sets to characterize the evolving extent,
surface features, dynamics, and surface elevations of Split Lake Glacier, a small outlet of the …

Surface velocities of glaciers in Western Canada from speckle-tracking of ALOS PALSAR and RADARSAT-2 data

W Van Wychen, L Copland, H Jiskoot… - Canadian Journal of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Speckle-tracking of historically acquired ALOS PALSAR and RADARSAT-2 datasets are
used to determine the dynamics of major glaciers and ice masses in western Canada over …

Evaluation of ICEYE microsatellites sensor for surface motion detection—Jakobshavn glacier case study

MA Łukosz, R Hejmanowski, WT Witkowski - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
The marine-terminating glaciers are one of the biggest contributors to global sea-level rise.
Research on this aspect of the effects of global climate change is developing nowadays in …