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 back in Fairbanks this week. It is nice to be back in our hometown.
We drilled again on Thursday and established a permafrost monitoring station and a frost tube monitoringt site at Randy Smith Middle School.

I spent all day giving permafrost presentations to a total of six classes. However, I feel great and not tired because students were so good and patient.

After the presentations, Mike and Kenji installed the datalogger and frost tube in the monitoring station in the school yard.

Science teacher Mr. Mike Geil is a really nice teacher and also all of the students are really good and know a lot about permafrost!