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We address the fundamental effects of space on dynamic species-to-community interactions that govern function

Month: March 2020

Posted on March 23, 2020May 1, 2020

Identifying historical and future potential lake drainage events on the western Arctic coastal plain of Alaska

New Article Published this week in Permafrost and Periglacial Processes!

Posted on March 2, 2020March 2, 2020

Co‐producing knowledge: the Integrated Ecosystem Model for resource management in Arctic Alaska

New Article published this week in Frontiers of Ecology and the Environment!

News

  • Peatland fires in Alaska will double by the end of the century
  • DARTS: Multi-year database of AI-detected retrogressive thaw slumps in the circum-arctic permafrost region
  • State of the Climate in 2024
  • Quantifying Retrogressive Thaw Slump Mass Wasting and Carbon Mobilisation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Using Multi-Modal Remote Sensing
  •  DVMDOSTEM: a terrestrial ecosystem model designed to represent arctic, boreal and permafrost ecosystem dynamics
  • Permafrost–wildfire interactions: active layer thickness estimates for paired burned and unburned sites in northern high latitudes

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2025 Alaska Fieldwork (Boreal Peatlands, Brooks Foothills, Arctic Coastal Plain)

2024 Alaska Fieldwork (Arctic Coastal Plain)

coming soon....

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)

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