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, November 21, 2007

Two full year data at Pearl Creek Elementary School!

Pearl Creek Elementary School (Fairbanks) had the oldest permafrost station in our network.
We compare difference between 2006 and 2007 dataset at the multi-age classroom.

posted by uaf permafrost # 8:28 AM

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Pearl Creek School

We re-visit Pearl Creek Elementary School today. This is third visiting for us and already full two year data collected from here. Students are well understand permafrost, especially multi-age class works great for teach each other.
After we read frost depth using frost tube, we cloth looked two years data and discuss difference between 2006 and 2007.

posted by uaf permafrost # 9:48 PM

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Frost tube works great!

The students from Randy Smith Middle School visit their permafrost (frost tube) monitoring site to read the depth of the ground freezing!

posted by uaf permafrost # 3:15 PM

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Frost Tube at Randy Smith Middle School

Frost tube is great way to monitoring seasonal frost layer. It is easy to make just corored water fill in the clear tube. Whatever the ice formed, ice does not include color. the bounday of color and clear is bounday of freezing front!

posted by uaf permafrost # 3:43 PM