Permafrost – International Arctic Research Center

Scenarios Network for Alaska + Arctic Planning

By IARC Communications | December 6, 2021

Since 2007, SNAP has used climate data to create and share ideas of what a future Northern climate could look like. Our expertise includes data analysis and interpretation, scenario planning, and science communication.

Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments

By IARC Communications | December 6, 2021

The Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE Arctic) seek to quantify the physical, chemical, and biological behavior of terrestrial ecosystems in Alaska.

From wet to dry, a question to improve global climate models

By Heather McFarland | May 9, 2019

Arctic researchers traveled to western Alaska last month to gather snow depth data, which they believe may be a missing link needed to improve how global climate models predict changing…

Permafrost thaw and methane release from Arctic lakes

By IARC Communications | February 21, 2017

Friday, February 24, 2017| 9:30-10:30 am, 401 Akasofu- Katey Walter Anthony will present a relatively new discovery that permafrost thaw lakes have a natural process that mitigates greenhouse gas losses, and over the long term can lead to net climate cooling.

Highlight: Study measures methane release from Arctic permafrost

By IARC Communications | August 26, 2016

A UAF research project led by IARC’s Katey Walter Anthony has provided the first modern evidence of a landscape-level permafrost carbon feedback, in which thawing permafrost releases ancient carbon as climate-warming greenhouse gases. The study was published today in the journal Nature Geoscience.