Icebergs Research
This page is a resource for available data and software associated with our iceberg research. Please see the publications page for relevant literature or our youtube page for movies. This page will continually evolve. Please contact us if you use these data, or have questions or comments.
Iceberg Curriculum: We shared the educational lesson plans on icebergs we developed with middle school teachers online at OER Commons, with link here: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/icebergs-projects
Iceberg Playing Cards: Want to color some icebergs that are based on real subsurface and aerial data (i.e., from multibeam sonar and drones)? Yes, then here they are!
Iceberg GPS & Data
We have the GPS position data for icebergs in Sermilik Fjord available from George Roth's MS thesis, written up in Sutherland et al. 2014 in GRL. These are in text files here:
- year 1 (2012-2013)
- year 2 (2013-2014)
- README
Data collected in 2017 was used in Schild’s GRL paper and is now archived at the Arctic Data Center with this citation: Kristin Schild, David Sutherland, Pedro Elosegui, and Daniel Duncan. 2021. Sermilik, Greenland 3D iceberg data, summer 2017. Arctic Data Center. doi:10.18739/A22V2CB5M.
We have now also archived the iceberg and GPS data for 2018 and 2019 at the Arctic Data Center, which is combined with the 2017 data. The citation for these data are:
Kristin Schild, David Sutherland, Pedro Elosegui, and Daniel Duncan. 2021. Sermilik, Greenland 3D iceberg data, summer 2017-2019. Arctic Data Center. urn:uuid:ccc3b6e5-8079-4077-bfac-c0ef3415f25e [https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/urn%3Auuid%3Accc3b6e5-8079-4077-bfac-c0ef3415f25e]
In the future, look for more iceberg 'tracker' data from more years in Sermilik Fjord, Uummannaq Bay, and Jakobshavn Isbrae.
Landsat 8 imagery
Data from Dan Sulak's paper on iceberg distributions in Sermilik Fjord, and the fjords in front of Rink Isbrae and KS glaciers in the Uummannaq area of west Greenland. Also see Alexis Moyer’s paper and more to come!
Iceberg melt code
MATLAB Code to implement common melt parameterizations and geometric constraints, used in Twila Moon’s 2018 paper.
Funding and Collaborators
Funding for this work has come from NSF and the University of Oregon, as well as engineering support from UNAVCO and CPS/Polar Field Services. We have benefited from numerous collaborations with scientists from around the world. Some are listed here:
Twila Moon, NSIDC
Leigh Stearns, Kansas
Ellyn Enderlin, Boise State
Dustin Carroll, Moss Landing Marine Labs
Claudia Cenedese, WHOI
Meagan Wengrove, OSU