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!




After we move to McGrath school. We join Nicole's middle school science class and high school chemistry class. all students are well knowledge and great time. Once class room talk was done, we go out to drill frost tube and deeper temperature monitoring hole. frost tube site are developed out side of classroom and white spruce forest floor. deeper borehole was installed about 2km east of town, where presence of permafrost.