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!

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!