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Posted on March 23, 2020May 1, 2020

Identifying historical and future potential lake drainage events on the western Arctic coastal plain of Alaska

New Article Published this week in Permafrost and Periglacial Processes!

Posted on March 2, 2020March 2, 2020

Co‐producing knowledge: the Integrated Ecosystem Model for resource management in Arctic Alaska

New Article published this week in Frontiers of Ecology and the Environment!

Posted on February 26, 2020

Upgrading Satellite Mapping of Burn Severity

News article published this week by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium highlights graduate student Yaping Chen’s new and improved fire severity mapping protocol published in ISPRS.

Posted on December 16, 2019February 26, 2020

NOAA Arctic Report Card – Tundra Greenness

New essay published in this year’s Arctic Report Card!

Posted on November 30, 2019December 16, 2019

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)!

Posted on October 24, 2019November 15, 2019

Large loss of CO2 in winter observed across the northern permafrost region

New manuscript published this week in Nature Climate Change!

Posted on October 3, 2019October 24, 2019

Alder distribution and expansion across a tundra hillslope: implications for local N cycling

New manuscript published this week in Frontiers in Plant Science!

Posted on August 20, 2019November 15, 2019

Permafrost thaw spurs methane emissions

see article published by Chemical & Engineering News ISSN 0009-2347
Posted on July 17, 2019September 21, 2020

Drone-based Hyperspectral and LIDAR sensors for the Lara Lab

Posted on July 17, 2019July 17, 2019

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.

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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)

coming soon....

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)

drained lake
Moss in old pits
1976 drained lake
old pit
old pit
Mavic + Rededge
2015 drained
ALD
Pits
recently formed pit
recent pit
aerenchyma
Pits
pit
recent pit
recently formed pit
recent pit
Dr. Andresen setting up mesocosm
2015 drained via gully

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