Permafrost Laboratory - Ronald Daanen

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Dr. Ronald Daanen

Postdoctoral Fellow

Permafrost Laboratory
Geophysical Institute
University of Alaska Fairbanks
903 Koyukuk Drive
Fairbanks, AK 99775
U.S.A.

Phone:(+1)-907-474-7548
Fax: (+1)-907-474-7290
Email: ffrd@uaf.edu

Research Interests and Projects
Cold climate vadose zone hydrology, with biological (vegetation and microbial interactions), physical (coupled heat and moisture transfer with phase change), and chemical (redox processes and plant nutrition) interactions. Current research is on small scale modeling of non-sorted circle ecosystems dynamics in the Arctic Tundra (http://www.geobotany.uaf.edu/cryoturbation), large scale simulations of spatially distributed permafrost energy balances in Greenland and Alaska, with future scenarios of climate warming. More information can be found in: http://www.gi.alaska.edu/snowice/Permafrost-lab/projects/projects_active/proj_greenland.html also our collaborators in Denmark at http://klimagroenland.dmi.dk/index.html (in Danish), and on the Alaska Peatland Experiment (www.apex.msu.edu)

Selected Publications
Daanen, R.P., J.L. Nieber, 2007. Liquid water model for Snow. Cold Regions Engineering (in review).

Daanen, R.P., D.Misra, 2007. Modeling Patterned Ground in the Arctic Tundra., Vadose Zone Journal 6, 694-704 doi:10.2136/vzj2006.0173.

Misra, D. and Daanen, R.P. 2005. Visualizing Frost Boils, in: Challenges in Science and Engineering, News reported by L. Nettelton, November Issue.

Daanen, R.P. Modeling liquid water flow in snow. PhD thesis, University of Minnesota, April 2004.

Daanen, R.P., 1997. Water flow and heat transport under frost and thaw conditions at an arable field soil with snow cover near Sjökulla, Finland. MSc-thesis, Sub-department Water Resources, Wageningen University, 86 p.

Appointments

2005-present	Postdoctoral researcher, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks
2004-2005	Postdoctoral researcher, Arctic Regions Supercomputing Center, University of Alaska fairbanks
1997-2004	Research assistant, Departement of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, University of Minnesota

Education

2004	PhD, Water Resource Science; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
1997	MA, Agricultural Engineering; Wageningen University, Wageningen
1994	BA, Environmental Engineering; Van Hall Instituut, Groningen
1998-1991	Horticultural education; ‘t Vanck, Nijmegen

Curriculum Vitae

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