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!


We try to across Seward Peninsula today. It extreamly windy cold first half day. We try to find Granit Mountain hot spring the way go up to Buckland. But we missed within 0.2miles. Because poor visubility by the strong wind. We could not see especially near ground. Once we gave up hot spring, we keep driving toward Buckland.
after 5 and 1/2 hours of head wind driving, we made it in Buckland.
We had a great time with Tim (he help me drilling last spring.), Matthew (he participant STEP, UAF last summer), Johney... This is nice warm village for us!