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More than 2,000 km north of Calgary, an international team of scientists from  and universities from across Canada and Europe is tackling one of the planet's most unforgiving environments to better understand climate change.

Between March and May, , PhD, professor of geography in the University of Calgary’s , led the (CEMSIE), consisting of an international team of researchers, including scientists from and universities from across Canada and Europe. 

The research project, based at the (CHARS) in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, received funding from the and space agencies to study sea ice. Arctic sea ice plays an important role in helping to control the planet’s temperature as the Earth’s climate continues to change.

“The experiment was just as much about developing better methods to measure sea ice thickness from satellite, calibration and validation, as we like to call it, as it is about the 'sea ice melting' concept the general public grasps onto because it's straightforward to understand,” says Yackel.