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Posted on August 30, 2023January 2, 2025

NSF funded postdoc opportunity in tundra biogeochemistry, start Fall 2025

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

Posted on February 13, 2025

The Changing Face of the Arctic: Four Decades of Greening and Implications for Tundra Ecosystems

Review Article published this week in Frontiers of Environmental Science!

Posted on January 27, 2025February 12, 2025

A 20 m spatial resolution peatland extent map of Alaska

New Article published this week in Scientific Data!

Posted on December 11, 2024January 2, 2025

NOAA 2024 Arctic Report Card

NOAA ARC report published this week!

Posted on December 3, 2024January 2, 2025

Tundra fires and surface subsidence increase spectral diversity on the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska

Article published this week in Environmental Research: Ecology by graduate student Duncan Anderson!

Posted on October 20, 2024January 2, 2025

A Labeling Intercomparison of Retrogressive Thaw Slumps by a Diverse Group of Domain Experts

Article published this week in Permafrost and Periglacial Processes!

Posted on August 2, 2024January 2, 2025

The Arctic: Tundra Greenness

Article published this week in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

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!

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  • The Changing Face of the Arctic: Four Decades of Greening and Implications for Tundra Ecosystems
  • A 20 m spatial resolution peatland extent map of Alaska
  • NOAA 2024 Arctic Report Card
  • Tundra fires and surface subsidence increase spectral diversity on the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska
  • A Labeling Intercomparison of Retrogressive Thaw Slumps by a Diverse Group of Domain Experts
  • The Arctic: Tundra Greenness

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2023 Alaska Fieldwork (Noatak National Preserve)

2022 Alaska Fieldwork (Brooks Range to Arctic Coastal Plain)

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

2021 Alaska Fieldwork (Brooks Foothills)

2020 Fieldwork

2019 Alaska Fieldwork (Arctic Coastal Plain)

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