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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” !

Posted on January 2, 2022January 10, 2022

Wildfires Are Digging Carbon-Spewing Holes in the Arctic

Research featured in WIRED magazine

Posted on January 1, 2022January 10, 2022

Arctic Report Card- Tundra Greenness 2021

New essay published this week in NOAA Arctic Report Card!

Posted on December 20, 2021January 10, 2022

Arctic Fires Are Melting Permafrost That Keeps Carbon Underground

Research featured in Bloomburg News

Posted on December 15, 2021January 10, 2022

Study: Fire hastens permafrost collapse in Arctic Alaska

Research featured in the Illinois News Bureau

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News

  • Coarse land cover datasets bias Arctic-Boreal wetland methane budgets
  • 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

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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)

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