The global concern over rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere and subsequent effects of climate change we are seeing particularly in the Arctic can be attributed to the burning of fossil fuels. The burning of coal is the main contributor to electrical generation in the U. S. as well as many other
Article describing the final stages of this year's Operation IceBridge, the NASA campaign to maintain and expand on Arctic ice measurements. Along with PolarTREC teacher Mark Buesing, the IceBridge team has successfully completed a variety of aerial measurements on sea ice, sub-ice bedrock and Greenland's glaciers.
Over three months in Antarctica, PolarTREC teacher Juan Botella took hundreds of pictures a day. He will now display many of those photos in an art exhibit entitled, "ArtArctic Science" at the Overture Center in Madison, WI. The exhibit includes not only Botella’s pictures but artwork by four Monona Grove high school students and two recent graduates.
This one hour webinar is for students and the public hosted by Tom Lane. The team is studying carbon balance in warming and drying tundra in Healy, Alaska.
I met Jamie Hollingsworth the Site Manager for BNZ LTER when he and Brian Charlton (Field Tech. for BNZ LTER) came down to CiPEHR to test a tracked four-wheeler with snowblower attachment near the On-plot Experiment sites. The Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research was established in 1987. It’s
Greetings readers. I had a long day of flights on Monday, but have had an amazing day and a half in Anchorage meeting the team and continuing with logistics and preparation. Stops in Anchorage have included a large Costco where a dear friend from my graduate school days in the 80s helped us shop for
Students at Jenks West Intermediate are getting excited about participating in my journey to Toolik this summer! They are asking lots of thoughtful questions and brainstormed more than 150 possible names for our cartoon Arctic ground squirrel. The nominees have been narrowed to 7 names. Everyone is
This scientific article, focuses on one of the largest pools of global carbon that is, the organic C stored in permafrost (perennially frozen) ground, and on the vulnerability to change under an increasingly warmer climate.
This past weekend several members of the CiPEHR team and I had the opportunity to go canoeing in the winter. The Delta Clearwater River is the largest spring-fed tributary of the Tanana. This crystal clear river is 20 miles long and flows into the Tanana River 20 miles upstream of the Richardson
