Warming temperatures mean shorter ice seasons in Sanikiluaq, Nunavut. As a result, the stretches of landfast ice formed from frozen seawater that Inuit use to travel and hunt on are increasingly unpredictable and unsafe.
Recent Waterloo Engineering graduate Neil Brubacher (BASc ‘21 and MASc ’24) led the community sea ice safety project as part of his thesis under the supervision of Dr. David Clausi, co-director of the VIP Lab and a professor of systems design engineering, and Dr. Andrea Scott, associate professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, with support from the Mitacs Accelerate Indigenous Pathways program.
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