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Overview

Humfrey Melling is affiliated with Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Canada. Their research primarily encompasses fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Oceanography. The work spans topics related to Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, climate change and permafrost, marine animal studies, methane hydrates and related phenomena, geology and paleoclimatology research, cryospheric studies and observations, as well as indigenous studies and ecology.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Rapid seafloor changes associated with the degradation of Arctic submarine permafrost (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Long-term, Harvest-based Monitoring of Ringed Seal Body Condition and Reproduction in Canada's Western Arctic: An Update through 2019 + Supplementary Appendix 1 (See Article Tools) (2020), published in ARCTIC
  • Circulation in the vicinity of Mackenzie Canyon from a year-long mooring array (2020), published in Progress In Oceanography
  • A 100-km wide slump along the upper slope of the Canadian Arctic was likely preconditioned for failure by brackish pore water flushing (2021), published in Marine Geology
  • Pacific salmon in the Canadian Arctic highlight a range-expansion pathway for sub-Arctic fishes (2024), published in Global Change Biology

Frequent collaborators include:

  • C. K. Paull
  • S R Dallimore
  • Young Keun Jin
  • David W. Caress
  • E. M. Lundsten

Humfrey Melling's work has been published repeatedly in venues such as Progress In Oceanography and The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Other notable journals featuring their research include Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ARCTIC, and Marine Geology.

Best Publications

  • Freshwater and its role in the Arctic Marine System: Sources, disposition, storage, export, and physical and biogeochemical consequences in the Arctic and global oceans

    Edward C. Carmack;Michiyo Yamamoto-Kawai;Thomas W. N. Haine;Sheldon Bacon

  • Toward Quantifying the Increasing Role of Oceanic Heat in Sea Ice Loss in the New Arctic

    Eddy Carmack;Igor V. Polyakov;Laurie Padman;Ilker Fer

  • CHAPTER 2: ARCTIC CLIMATE - Past and Present

    G. Alekseev;D. Chen;E. Førland;J. Fyfe

  • Ocean circulation within the North Water polynya of Baffin Bay

    Humfrey Melling;Yves Gratton;Grant Ingram

  • Implications of climate change for economic development in northern Canada: energy, resource, and transportation sectors.

    Terry D. Prowse;Chris Furgal;Rebecca Chouinard;Humfrey Melling

  • Sea ice of the northern Canadian Arctic Archipelago

    Humfrey Melling

  • A Synthesis of Exchanges Through the Main Oceanic Gateways to the Arctic Ocean

    Agnieszka Beszczynska-Möller;Rebecca Woodgate;Craig Lee;Humfrey Melling

  • Measurements of the Underside Topography of Sea Ice by Moored Subsea Sonar

    Humfrey Melling;Paul H. Johnston;David A. Riedel

  • Particle fluxes and geochemistry on the Canadian Beaufort Shelf: Implications for sediment transport and deposition

    M.C. O’Brien;R.W. Macdonald;H. Melling;K. Iseki

  • Sediment transport by sea ice in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas: Increasing importance due to changing ice conditions?

    H. Eicken;R. Gradinger;A. Gaylord;A. Mahoney

  • The joint roles of Pacific and Atlantic-origin waters in the Canada Basin, 1997 1998

    F.A McLaughlin;E.C Carmack;R.W Macdonald;H Melling

  • Modification of halocline source waters during freezing on the Beaufort Sea shelf: evidence from oxygen isotopes and dissolved nutrients

    Humfrey Melling;Robert M. Moore

  • Origin of pingo-like features on the Beaufort Sea shelf and their possible relationship to decomposing methane gas hydrates

    Charles K. Paull;William Ussler;Scott R. Dallimore;Steve M. Blasco

  • Shelf drainage flows in the Beaufort Sea and their effect on the Arctic Ocean pycnocline

    Humfrey Melling;E.L. Lewis

  • Ocean circulation and properties in Petermann Fjord, Greenland

    H. L. Johnson;A. Münchow;K. K. Falkner;H. Melling

  • An overview of physical processes in the North Water

    R.Grant Ingram;Julie Bâcle;David G Barber;Yves Gratton

  • Variation in Reproduction and Body Condition of the Ringed Seal ( Phoca hispida ) in Western Prince Albert Sound, NT, Canada, as Assessed Through a Harvest-based Sampling Program

    Lois A. Harwood;Thomas G. Smith;Humfrey Melling

  • The formation of a haline shelf front in wintertime in an ice-covered arctic sea

    Humfrey Melling

  • Fresh-Water Fluxes via Pacific and Arctic Outflows Across the Canadian Polar Shelf

    Humfrey Melling;Tom A. Agnew;Kelly K. Falkner;David A. Greenberg

  • Baffin Island and West Greenland Current Systems in northern Baffin Bay

    Andreas Münchow;Kelly K. Falkner;Humfrey Melling

  • Observations in the Ocean

    Bert Rudels;Bert Rudels;Leif Anderson;Patrick Eriksson;Eberhard Fahrbach

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott R. Dallimore
Scott R. Dallimore Geological Survey of Canada
Andreas Münchow
Andreas Münchow University of Delaware
Charles K. Paull
Charles K. Paull Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Robie W. Macdonald
Robie W. Macdonald Fisheries and Oceans Canada
R. Grant Ingram
R. Grant Ingram McGill University
Eddy C. Carmack
Eddy C. Carmack Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Michael Riedel
Michael Riedel GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Roger M. Samelson
Roger M. Samelson Oregon State University
Fiona A. McLaughlin
Fiona A. McLaughlin Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Mary-Louise Timmermans
Mary-Louise Timmermans Yale University

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