Yulia Antropova
I am a Ph.D. student working with Dr. Derek Mueller. My interest in northern-related research emerged from my B.Sc. project on the detection of wet snow in the Arctic tundra from satellite observations. As part of my Ph.D. project, I am studying marine-terminating glacier dynamics and doing my fieldwork on Milne Glacier, located on the northern coast of Ellesmere Island, a region that has been experiencing extensive ice mass loss in the last two decades. The line where marine-terminating glaciers transition from grounded to floating, known as the grounding line, is particularly susceptible to changes associated with climatic warming occurring in the Arctic. I am using a combination of spaceborne and in-situ observations to quantify changes in the Milne Glacier grounding line position, thickness, velocity, and surface ablation over several decades. These observations will allow me to elucidate the processes occurring at the base of the glacier and relate them to the Milne Glacier thinning and ice discharge. The improved understanding of glacier deterioration processes will provide crucial input for other research projects aimed at the prediction of calving events and projections of global sea-level rise as Arctic glaciers will continue to lose mass over this century.