Permafrost outreach 2009
The University of Alaska EPSCoR program, NASA IPY and NSF IPY, Thermal State of Permafrost programs are conducting an outreach effort in conjunction with it's research focus on permafrost and infrastructure. The outreach effort has been termed the "Permafrost Health" program and consists of installing permafrost temperature monitoring systems!Monday, April 23, 2007
Kenny Lake
I think not many people know "Kenny Lake" even Alaskan resident.
Kenny Lake School is located in the southern part of the Copper River Basin near Chitna.
This is really interesting place for permafrost study.
Last 20 years, permafrost degradations dramatically and vegetation seems changing too.
We would like to establish our program at Kenny Lake School. We try to drill last fall but failed! There is glacial deposit (boulder and clay!) in this area and one of the most difficult drill conditions. The principal (Mr. Carlson), science teacher (Mr. Proch), retired science teacher (Mr. Dave Wellman), and USDA biologist (Doug Vollman) help us a lot to establish site. But we still not success yet. I was there last week to look at potential drill site. But many snow remain and hard to see ground condition yet. Even we do not have snow in Fairbanks!
We will try anyway, once snow gone!
posted by uaf permafrost # 9:37 AM 
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