scholarly journals Observations On Massive Ground Ice On Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
W H Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Ellesmere Island ◽  
Ground Ice

scholarly journals An estimate of ice wedge volume for a High Arctic polar desert environment, Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 3589-3604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Bernard-Grand'Maison ◽  
Wayne Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
High Arctic ◽  
Ellesmere Island ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Ground Ice ◽  
Polar Desert ◽  
Ice Volume ◽  
Carbon Release ◽  
Wedge Volume

Abstract. Quantifying ground-ice volume on a regional scale is necessary to assess the vulnerability of permafrost landscapes to thaw-induced disturbance like terrain subsidence and to quantify potential carbon release. Ice wedges (IWs) are a ubiquitous ground-ice landform in the Arctic. Their high spatial variability makes generalizing their potential role in landscape change problematic. IWs form polygonal networks that are visible on satellite imagery from surface troughs. This study provides a first approximation of IW ice volume for the Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, a continuous permafrost area characterized by polar desert conditions and extensive ground ice. We perform basic GIS analyses on high-resolution satellite imagery to delineate IW troughs and estimate the associated IW ice volume using a 3-D subsurface model. We demonstrate the potential of two semi-automated IW trough delineation methods, one newly developed and one marginally used in previous studies, to increase the time efficiency of this process compared to manual delineation. Our methods yield acceptable IW ice volume estimates, validating the value of GIS to estimate IW volume on much larger scales. We estimate that IWs are potentially present on 50 % of the Fosheim Peninsula (∼3000 km2), where 3.81 % of the top 5.9 m of permafrost could be IW ice.

scholarly journals Accurate mapping of Arctic glaciers over 50 years ago

1997 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 6-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Wright
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Ellesmere Island ◽  
Successful Attempt

This paper will describe what it was like to map Arctic glaciers starling 62 years ago in Iceland; then in Nordaustland, Svalbard, in 1935–36; and finally in northwest Greenland and Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories, Canada, in 1937–38. The glacier in Iceland was resurveyed by a party including me in 1992; and I made a less successful attempt to resurvey the Greenland glacier in 1993.

HEXATYLUS MULVEYI N. SP. AND DELADENUS DURUS (COBB, 1922) THORNE, 1941 (NEMATODA: NEOTYLENCHIDAE) FROM THE CANADIAN ARCTIC

1964 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-653 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. M. Das
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Ellesmere Island ◽  
Single Line

Hexatylus mulveyi n. sp. and Deladenus durus (Cobb, 1922) Thorne, 1941, collected from soil in the Lake Hazen area of Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories, are figured and described. H. mulveyi differs from H. viviparus Goodey, 1926 in the shape of the tail, the number of incisures, the single line of oocytes in the ovary, and in the vulva having elevated lips.

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