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!

Thursday, July 19, 2007

 

Drilling at Kenny Lake





We did drill Kenny Lake School finally! Kenny Lake is most southern part of the permafrost boundary in Alaska. We try to drill several spot around the school since last year. However, we never found permafrost. Also the area has lake sediments with glacier till which extremely difficult to drill for us. The site, we drill in this time, is still school property and relatively tall spruce forest. We start drill mid night around 2am until morning. Permafrost seems warmer condition but including beautiful 30cm of ice layer depth at 1m below ground surface.





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