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!




Kaji and Kenji drove to the Village "Minto". Minto is Athabaskan Indian village north of Fairbanks.
Science teacher "monica" organized to set up meeting with the middle school students.
Kenji had a lecture about permafrost and installation of the frost tube with them.
After the frost tube installation, we drill deeper borehole for permafrost temperature monitoring program.