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

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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!

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 September 9, 2022September 9, 2022

State of The Arctic 2021, Tundra Greenness

New report published this week in the BAMS!

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!

Posted on May 23, 2022May 23, 2022

ABoVE-Ground Characterization of Plant Species Succession in Retrogressive Thaw Slumps Using Imaging Spectroscopy

New NASA project Funded!

Posted on May 23, 2022May 23, 2022

Invasion of Services: Impacts of fire and grass invasions on forest ecosystem services

New USDA Hatch Project Funded!

Posted on April 12, 2022April 13, 2022

Thawing permafrost is roiling the Arctic landscape, driven by a hidden world of changes beneath the surface as the climate warms

New article published this week in “The Conversation“!

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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)

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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)

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