Frazil ice monitoring system

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Support is required to build a Frazil Ice Monitoring System (FIMS) that will serve to quantify suspended frazil ice processes in rivers, estuaries and the nearshore. Frazil needs to be quantified because in ice-infested waters, frazil is the main mechanism for heat transfert from water to air and therefore is the primary actor in any river, estuary or ocean. Knowledge about its formation, evolution and transformation is required for any marine public works or climate change studies. Furthermore, frazil is responsible for the sudden blockage of municipal, industrial and nuclear energy water intakes. Frazil is notoriously difficult to monitor and quantify because its grain size is continuously changing and it is extremely volatile (so cannot be handled).