Research Highlights

Measuring CO2 Variance from Interior Alaska Forest

Thu, 12/15/2011 - 15:03

In this video, IARC researcher Yongwon Kim shows the equipment he uses to automatically measure CO2, one of the major greenhouse gases. He uses this data to determine the daily variance of CO2 flux in a black spruce forest in interior Alaska in hopes to predict future changes in CO2.

Beaufort Sea Cruise 2011

Tue, 07/26/2011 - 14:41

Follow IARC graduate student Alice Orlich's journey aboard the CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent on the 2011 Beaufort Sea cruise, including photos, satellite images, and ice observations. Read More

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UAV Surveys Sea Ice to Help Fuel Tanker in Nome

Thu, 01/19/2012 - 14:20

IARC researcher Jessica Cherry recently visited Nome, Alaska to survey sea ice between a Russian fuel tanker, the Renda (led by a US Coast Guard icebreaker Healy, which cleared a path for the tanker), and the harbor it needed to reach. It was critical that the tanker reached the harbor quickly, as the town expected to run out of heating fuel by spring after enduring record breaking low temperatures. Read More

North by 2020 Book Launch

Fri, 12/09/2011 - 18:09

Join the official book launch for North by 2020: Perspectives on Alaska's Changing Social-Ecological Systems (UA Press, 2011). The event will be held on Wednesday, December 14 at 7:00 PM at UAF's Geophysical Institute Globe Room (215 Elvey Building). North by 2020 was edited by Amy Lauren Lovecraft, associate professor of political science at UAF and Hajo Eicken, IARC researcher and professor of geophysics at UAF. Read More

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