RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT

Permafrost Outreach Program In Swing

October 1, 2007

Kenji Yoshikawa (INE) and Tohru Saito (IARC), University of Alaska Fairbanks, have visited 35 native village schools to install shallow (up to 6 meters deep) permafrost cables and active layer frost tube. The stations are adjacent to schools in Alaska and Canada. Monitoring the permafrost temperature and seasonal thaw provides students the opportunities to collect, analyze and share data. In spring 2007, we visited 12 villages along the Yukon River by snow machines and with our light-weight, rotary percussion drill. Data is shared with all communities on the internet (http://www.uaf.edu/permafrost). This outreach project is supported by the University of Alaska’s EPSCoR andNASA and NSF IPY (TSP) programs.

More information and photos are available on the Permafrost Outreach website.

Meeting with students.

Meeting with students in Faro.

Installing sensors in the bore-hole in Old Crow.