Cryologger

Publications

Last updated on October 6, 2025

This page highlights scientific publications and presentations featuring the Cryologger platform. These works showcase its broad application across glacier monitoring, iceberg tracking, and Arctic field research, and reflect collaborations with researchers, institutions, and field programs committed to advancing cryospheric science.


Featured Publications

  • Garbo, A., Rajewicz, J., Mueller, D., Tivy, A., Copland, L., Turnbull, I., et al. (2025). Iceberg Beacon Track Database (IBTD) [version 1.0]. Canadian Cryospheric Information Network. https://doi.org/10.21963/13340

  • Dalton, A., Garbo, A., Copland, L., Van Wychen, W., Mueller, D., Tivy, A., & Marson, J. M. (2025). Long-term field tracking of icebergs in the eastern Canadian Arctic. Arctic Science, 11, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2023-0069

  • Marson, J. M., Myers, P. G., Garbo, A., Copland, L., & Mueller, D. (2024). Sea Ice-Driven Iceberg Drift in Baffin Bay. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 129(5), e2023JC020697. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020697

  • Wells, A., Rounce, D., Sass, L., Florentine, C., Garbo, A., Baker, E., & McNeil, C. (2024). GNSS reflectometry from low-cost sensors for continuous in situ contemporaneous glacier mass balance and flux divergence. Journal of Glaciology, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2024.54

  • Garbo, A., & Mueller, D (2024). Cryologger Ice Tracking Beacon: A Low-Cost, Open-Source Platform for Tracking Icebergs and Ice Islands Sensors, 24(4), 1044. DOI: 10.3390/s24041044


Other Publications and Presentations

  • Garbo, A., & Copland, L. (2024, October 28–31). Tracking icebergs and ice islands with the Cryologger: A low-cost, open-source beacon [Poster presentation]. ICE-PPR Workshop, Tromsø, Norway.

  • Dalton, A., Copland, L., Van Wychen, W., Cook, A., Dawson, J., Garbo, A., Mueller, D., & Tivy, A. (2024, January 29–February 1). Coexistence of icebergs and ships in the eastern Canadian Arctic: 2012–2019 [Oral presentation]. Arctic Frontiers, Tromsø, Norway.

  • Mattea, E., Barandun, M., Saks, T., Garbo, A., & Hoelzle, M. (2024, March 14–15). Monitoring daily flow velocities at Abramov Glacier with low-cost, open-source GNSS loggers [Oral presentation]. Alpine Glaciology Meeting, Grenoble, France.

  • Brummell, E., Copland, L., Dow, C., Van Wychen, W., Medrzycka, D., & Garbo, A. (2023, January 26–28). Assessing the 2021–2022 surge behaviour of Lowell Glacier [Oral presentation]. Workshop on the Dynamics and Mass Budget of Arctic Glaciers, Obergurgl, Austria.

  • Copland, L., Dalton, A., Garbo, A., Brummell, E., Kochtitzky, W., Lauzon, B., & Gervais, P. (2023). Iceberg tracking and iceberg-ship interactions in Baffin Bay [Oral presentation]. Sciberg (The Science of Icebergs) Workshop, University of Manitoba, Online.

  • Copland, L., Alley, K., Antropova, Y., Bonneau, J., Dalton, A., Dow, C., Garbo, A., Gervais, P., Hamilton, A., Kochtitzky, W., Lauzon, B., Medrzycka, D., Myers, P., Mueller, D., Thomson, L., Willete, M., & Van Wychen, W. (2023, December 4–7). Recent glacier-ocean-iceberg changes across the Canadian Arctic [Oral presentation]. ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting, Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada.

  • Ebel, S., Gleason, K., Garbo, A., & Cosgrove, C. (2023, December 11–15). Quantifying the fire effects on mid-winter snowmelt in the Oregon Cascades. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA.

  • Mattea, E., Barandun, M., Saks, T., Garbo, A., & Hoelzle, M. (2023, November 17–18). Monitoring daily flow velocities at Abramov Glacier with low-cost, open-source GNSS loggers [Poster presentation]. 21st Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Mendrisio, Switzerland.

  • Garbo, A., Copland, L., Van Wychen, W., & Dow, C. (2022, December 4–8). Application of low-cost, open-source technologies for glaciological monitoring [Oral presentation]. ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting, Toronto, Canada.

  • Dalton, A., Garbo, A., Copland, L., Van Wychen, W., Mueller, D., & Tivy, A. (2022, December 4–8). Long-term field tracking of icebergs in the Eastern Canadian Arctic [Oral presentation]. ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meeting, Toronto, Canada.


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