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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

Posted on December 10, 2021January 10, 2022

Thermokarst acceleration in Arctic tundra driven by climate change and fire disturbance

New article published this week in “One Earth“!

Posted on November 19, 2021November 19, 2021

Recent warming reverses forty-year decline in Catastrophic lake drainage and hastens Gradual lake drainage across northern Alaska

Letter in Environmental Research Letters published this week!

Posted on November 5, 2021January 10, 2022

The Boreal–Arctic Wetland and Lake Dataset (BAWLD)

New article published this week in “Earth System Science Data”!

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  • Vegetation browning patterns under compound soil and atmospheric dryness in northern permafrost ecosystems
  • Ecological insights from transferable plant biomass mapping across the arctic using high-resolution structure-from-motion and LiDAR data
  • Greening the scars
  • Vegetation recovery following retrogressive thaw slumps across northern tundra regions
  • Team tracks vegetation recovery from sudden permafrost collapse
  • Meta-analysis of North American Arctic and Boreal Aboveground Biomass Datasets: Assessing Accuracy, Dynamics, and Similarities

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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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2021 Alaska Fieldwork (Brooks Foothills)

2020 Fieldwork

2019 Alaska Fieldwork (Arctic Coastal Plain)

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