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!
We are finnaly back to Alaska!
School was already start almost one month ago! We are going to catch up 2007 fall semester outreach program.
At first, Vladimir Romanovsky and Kenji Yoshikawa went up to North Slope villages (Barrow and Wainwright). I will wright travel report next a few days!