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, October 8, 2007

 

Old Crow

We met students in the morning at the Robert Service School, Dawson. We all went out of the classroom and installed temperature sensors in the borehole.


After the measurement of the temperature, Panya, Tohru, and Kenji catch up to the airplane for Old Crow.
Old Crow is the only remote village in Yukon Territory, Canada. Other rests of villages are connected with road system.
We arrived in Old Crow around 12:00 noon and met principal Vaino Latvala and science teacher Manuela Zeitlhofer. We had snowstorms during our visit. However, we success to install a datalogger and sensors in the borehole.







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