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  • Highlight: New report from North Slope Scenarios Project

    By IARC Communications | September 7, 2016 | Comments Off on Highlight: New report from North Slope Scenarios Project

    In a warming climate, long-term monitoring and research in the American Arctic is crucial. To address this, the North Slope Science Initiative (NSSI) implemented the Scenarios Project to help natural resource management agencies better direct research and monitor change in the Arctic using a scenarios framework.

  • Highlight: Study measures methane release from Arctic permafrost

    By IARC Communications | August 26, 2016 | Comments Off on Highlight: Study measures methane release from Arctic permafrost

    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.

  • Highlight: IARC partners with Japanese research center

    By Hajo Eicken | August 18, 2016 | Comments Off on Highlight: IARC partners with Japanese research center

    IARC Director Hajo Eicken recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Dr. Sei-Ichi Saito, Director of Hokkaido University’s new Arctic Research Center (HU-ARC), located in Sapporo, Japan.