AGU travel grants provided by U.S. Permafrost Association
The U.S. Permafrost Association will provide six $500 travel grants for U.S.-based students and post-graduate researchers to attend the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting in 2011. Applicants must be first author on a permafrost-related research presentation at AGU. Preference will be given to applicants who possess both U.S.P.A. and P.Y.R.N. memberships. Undergraduate students are encouraged to apply.
The application is due midnight on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011.
"North by 2020: Perspectives on Alaska's Changing Social-Ecological Systems"
Orders can be placed now for “North by 2020: Perspectives on Alaska’s Changing Social-Ecological Systems,” a 736-page book edited by Associate Professor of Political Science Amy Lauren Lovecraft and Geophysical Institute Professor Hajo Eicken and available through the University of Alaska Press.
Flowing tongues of rock, ice and dirt
A “debris flow” creeping down the southern Brooks Range toward the Dalton Highway.
Photo by Ronald Daanen.
A few years ago, Ronald Daanen was driving north of Coldfoot on the
Dalton Highway, looking for drunken trees. He pulled over when he saw
some tipsy spruce on a hillside.
The University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist thought
the tilted trees would be a classic sign of thawing permafrost, ground
that has remained frozen through the heat of at least two summers. But
these trees were part of something larger — a giant tongue of moving
hillside that was oozing toward the Dalton Highway.
Flowing tongues of rock, ice and dirt
By Ned Rozell
A few years ago, Ronald Daanen was driving north of Coldfoot on the Dalton Highway, looking for drunken trees. He pulled over when he saw some tipsy spruce on a hillside.
The University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist thought the tilted trees would be a classic sign of thawing permafrost, ground that has remained frozen through the heat of at least two summers. But these trees were part of something larger — a giant tongue of moving hillside that was oozing toward the Dalton Highway.
GI research gains AGU attention, high readership
The work of Geophysical Institute Research Assistant Professor Guido Grosse and colleagues has been spotlighted by the American Geophysical Union. Grosse is the lead author of “Vulnerability of high-latitude soil organic carbon in North America to disturbance,” a comprehensive investigation into climate change impacts on soil carbon storage in the far north appearing in the Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, Vol. 116.
Study of a dying glacier
Matt Druckenmiller, right, and his research advisor Hajo Eicken, a professor of Geophysics, on an ice floe near Barrow.
Photo by Daniel Pringle.
Yakutat Glacier, near the Alaska town of the same name and flowing from the mountains near the Canada border, calves into a lake as deep as an ocean bay. The icefield that feeds Yakutat is large enough to cover the five boroughs of New York City. Despite its bulk, the glacier is doomed unless we experience a drastic change in climate.
Assessing the influence of Alaska glaciers is slippery work
