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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!

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“!

Posted on January 12, 2022

Tundra vegetation change and impacts on permafrost

New article published this week in “Nature Reviews Earth & Environment” !

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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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