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Posted on August 30, 2023August 30, 2023

NSF funded postdoc opportunity in tundra biogeochemistry, start Fall 2024

contact mjlara(at)illinois.edu for more details!

Posted on November 22, 2023November 22, 2023

Nitrogen fixing shrubs advance the pace of tall-shrub expansion in the low-Arctic

New Article published this week in Communications Earth and Environment by Graduate Student Aiden Schore!

Posted on September 11, 2023September 21, 2023

Tundra Greenness in the State of the Climate 2022

New Report published in BAMS State of the Climate 2022

Posted on August 30, 2023September 11, 2023

Impacts of abiotic and biotic factors on tundra productivity near Utqiaġvik, Alaska

New Article published in Environmental Research Letters!

Posted on July 30, 2023August 30, 2023

Micro to Macro-scale Hot-spot and Hot-moment dynamics in Arctic Tundra Ecosystems 

New NSF funded project starts July 2023!

Posted on November 4, 2022November 4, 2022

NASA-ABoVE decodes the secrets of the Arctic

Posted on September 9, 2022September 9, 2022

State of The Arctic 2021, Tundra Greenness

New report published this week in the BAMS!

Posted on September 9, 2022September 9, 2022

Lara to receive the 2022 American Geophysical Union Global Environmental Change Early Career Award!

Posted on August 7, 2022February 2, 2023

NASA funded Postdoc opportunity to detect vegetation change within Thaw Slumps using UAS and AVIRIS hyperspectral data

Read more and Apply here!

Posted on July 22, 2022August 20, 2022

Multiscale UAS mapping of Plant Species and Plant Functional Types in Midwestern Grasslands

New Article published this week in Remote Sensing by Emma Hall!

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  • Nitrogen fixing shrubs advance the pace of tall-shrub expansion in the low-Arctic
  • Tundra Greenness in the State of the Climate 2022
  • NSF funded postdoc opportunity in tundra biogeochemistry, start Fall 2024
  • Impacts of abiotic and biotic factors on tundra productivity near Utqiaġvik, Alaska
  • Micro to Macro-scale Hot-spot and Hot-moment dynamics in Arctic Tundra Ecosystems 
  • NASA-ABoVE decodes the secrets of the Arctic

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2023 Alaska Fieldwork (Noatak National Preserve)

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lake drainage
tundra carbon flux
NDVI shrub
NDVI bog
NDVI
collapse scar bog
collapse scar bog

2021 Alaska Fieldwork (Brooks Foothills)

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2015 drained via gully
Mavic + Rededge
1976 drained lake
recently formed pit
recent pit
Pits
old pit
old pit
Pits
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aerenchyma
2015 drained
Moss in old pits
ALD
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Dr. Andresen setting up mesocosm

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