New essay published in this year’s Arctic Report Card!
A robust visible near-infrared index for fire severity mapping in Arctic tundra ecosystems
New manuscript published this week in Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS)!

Large loss of CO2 in winter observed across the northern permafrost region
New manuscript published this week in Nature Climate Change!

Alder distribution and expansion across a tundra hillslope: implications for local N cycling
New manuscript published this week in Frontiers in Plant Science!

Permafrost thaw spurs methane emissions

Drone-based Hyperspectral and LIDAR sensors for the Lara Lab

Attention undergraduate CS students
Looking to hire 2-3 undergraduate computer science students for the development of C++ process based model and 1 machine learning guru for the development of a CNN using drone imagery.
NSF grant awarded to Lara
Lara was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant from the Environmental Engineering program for a research project entitled, “Collaborative Research: Navigating Disturbance Regimes in the New Arctic” to start March 2020.
Nutrient Release From Permafrost Thaw Enhances CH4 Emissions From Arctic Tundra Wetlands
New manuscript published this week in JGR-Biogeosciences!

Automated Detection of Thermoerosion in permafrost ecosystems using temporally dense Landsat image stacks
New manuscript published this week in Remote Sensing of Environment!
