Photos

View of the Ice Research Lab.

Andy Fortt, Ice Lab Manager, working on the multiaxial servo-hydraulic MTS testing machine.

Optical micrograph showing a thin-section (through crossed polarizing filters) of columnar-grained fresh-water ice rapidly loaded to terminal failure a under a high degree of triaxial confinement. Note the plastic shear fault, inclined ~ 45 degrees to the direction of shortening, and the recrystallized grains within the fault.(N. Golding, 2009).

Optical micrograph of a thin (~ 1 mm) section of granular ice, as viewed through crossed polarizers.

Columnar-grained S2 ice found through unidirectional solidification: a) of fresh water, b) of Arctic sea water.

Conjugate shear faults in sea ice: a) Specimen of first-year Arctic sea ice compressed to terminal failure in the laboratory. b) Landsat-7 satellite image of the sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean @ 80.0°N/135.7 °W, 20 march 2000.

Wing cracks in ice. a) Laboratory specimen loaded to terminal failure under uniaxial compression. b) Satellite imagery of leads in the sea ice cover on the Arctic Ocean.

Harvesting sea ice from the ice cover on the Arctic Ocean.