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!Wednesday, May 9, 2007
We found permafrost! (May 5, 2007)
In the very discontinuous permafrost zone near Whitehorse, we finally found permafrost near Golden Horn school! Karen McKenna (a local Whitehorse permafrost/vegetation specialist) helped us greatly in finding a small patch of permafrost near Cowley Creek! We drilled a 5 m borehole, and found a nice 30 cm thick massive ice layer at about 3 m depth. Thank you Karen!!
We do not know the complete thermal state of this permafrost site yet, but the permafrost is estimated to be about 10 m thick.
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