River Ice Engineering Research of Dr. Faye Hicks

and the UofA River Ice Research Group

This page was last updated on Nov 22, 2008

Current and Recent Research Projects:

Forecasting Ice Jam Floods

Experimental Investigations:

• Ice Block Stability (more info coming soon)

• Calibration of the Shallow Water Ice Profiling System (SWIPS)  (more info coming soon)

• Experimental Investigations of Ice Jam Consolidation Events

Field Investigations:

• Hay River Ice Breakup Study:  Hay River, NWT

• Impacts of River Ice on the Winter Water Supply of the Lower Athabasca River

• North Saskatchewan River Freeze-up:  Edmonton AB 

• Mackenzie Delta IPY Project (more info coming soon)

Numerical Model Development:

• Modeling Ice Jam Formation and Release

• Modeling River Freeze-up (more info coming soon)

Earlier Studies:

Athabasca River Ice Breakup Study: Fort McMurray, AB

• 20 minute video of 2007 breakup

• 60 s clip of breaking front

Mackenzie River Ice Breakup Study: Fort Providence, NWT

Numerical Model of River Ice Creep

Use of Satellite SAR for River Ice Characterization

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