Glaciologist using 3D models to study loss of shelf ice at Milne Fjord
The partial collapse of the Milne Fjord ice shelf has become a key focus of Arctic researchers, from oceanographers to glaciologists.
August 24, 2022
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Until recently, Ellesmere Island’s Milne Fjord was home to one of only a few known epishelf lakes — freshwater lakes that form when water runoff from land becomes trapped in a fjord behind a floating ice shelf — in the Arctic.
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