Peter Wray

Peter will be collecting, processing, and interpreting ice thickness data across the Glaciers of the Canadian St. Elias Mountains using a newly built helicopter-mounted ground penetrating radar system. Combining ice thickness data, glacier surface digital elevation models, and modelling algorithms, Peter will be revealing the deglaciated topography of Canada’s largest alpine glaciers, in addition to calculating their total ice volume and yearly melt rates.

He completed his MSc. from the University of Waterloo (2016-2019) and has been working as a field geophysicist for the last five years. His MSc work used ground penetrating radar to model the Nansen Ice Shelf, in Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica to examine an observed, but unmeasured, basal channel.

When Peter is not looking at spatial data, he is enjoying nature, talking about music, playing board/video games, diving into his most recent philosophical topic of interest, or thinking about his next Dungeons and Dragons campaign.