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!
Today we made it to Nome, the place that sounds like "No name".
After Kenji's talk to the students in White Mountain, we did some final touches with the frost tube and hit the trail.