Permafrost outreach 2009

There are now 40Permafrost Monitoring Stations successfully established in Alaska, Siberia, Canada, Mongolia and Greenland. We will continue to install more stations at schools in all of the Arctic Countries. Please check www.uaf.edu/permafrost for updates of our new members!
In the web page you will find our new “Frost Tube” program. This program is aimed to monitor changes in the active layer throughout the school year. NSF Globe program, ACM program and TSP programs are our collaborators for creating a strong monitoring network! We are extremely happy this year because several proposals were awarded towards this project from NSF IPY and NASA. This will be great step for us to be able to visit more schools and establish monitoring stations.

The International Polar Year is a large scientific program focused on the Arctic and the Antarctic from March 2007 to March 2009. IPY, organized through the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), is actually the fourth polar year, following those in 1882-3, 1932-3, and 1957-8. IPY will involve over 200 projects, with thousands of scientists from over 60 nations examining a wide range of physical, biological and social research topics. It is also an unprecedented opportunity to demonstrate, follow, and get involved with, cutting edge science in real-time. We are happy to be part of an IPY project!
Thank you for your support!
Happy Holydays!
Tohru Saito & Kenji yoshikawa

Tohru Saito and Kenji Yoshikawa participant American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco. AGU is one of the biggest earth science meeting in the world. more than 10,000 scientist came from all over the world. We present both poster and oral presentations for our permafrost outreach program. We are so grad to talk many people who interest our effort.

Vladimir Romanovsky and Kenji Yoshikawa met near Gulkana airport for measuring permafrost temperature. Prof. Tom Osterkamp set up this site since mid 1980s. This is one of the most exciting monitoring sites for all science community. We had a little bit hard time to work by the cold morning. But we successfully measure nice temperature profile.


Kenji had a opportunity to talk for local community at night. Janelle and Dave (Wrangell Institute for Science and Environment (WISE)) organized and prepared fantastic place (National Park Service). There is great team work with Glenn Hart (Program Manager at Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve). It was nice Friday evening with good audience and staff.

Kenji met students and teacher (Jason Garman) at Delta Junction High school on November 29 and again December 1st. Jason help Kenji to install frost tube next of nature trail.

Kenji visit Kenny Lake on November 29th and 30th. After the classroom lecture, Kenii and Students download data from permafrost monitoring station. Kenji also install frost tube for monitoring active layer just next of the station.