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Potential loss of salmonid spawning habitat in the Arctic due to rusting rivers
Introduction Permafrost thaw is a pervasive disturbance in the Arctic impacting surface waters (Smith et al. 2015; O'Donnell et al. 2024). Changes in stream hydrology and chemistry from permafrost thaw can have myriad effects on aquatic food webs (O'Donnell et al. 2024; Carey et al. 2025).
Landsat Archive Fills in Tundra Fire Gaps
The fire ecologist didn’t know much about remote sensing when he and some colleagues started noticing burned areas on the Arctic Slope that they knew were not listed in the Alaska Large Fire Database, which includes fires dating to 1939. If the fire record was missing the tundra fires they stumbled across, had it missed others in the past, too? And did the increasing amount of fires in the record in recent years really indicate a trend, or just improved detection methods?
Metal mobilization from thawing permafrost to aquatic ecosystems is driving rusting of Arctic streams
Links More information: Publisher Index Page (via DOI) Open Access Version: Publisher Index Page Download citation as: RIS | Dublin Core Study Area Publication type Article Publication Subtype Journal Article Title Metal mobilization from thawing permafrost to aquatic ecosystems is driving rusting of Arctic streams Series title Communications Earth and Environment DOI 10.1038/s43247-024-01446-z Volume 5 Year Published 2024 Language English Publisher Nature Contributing office(s) Alaska...
The dominance and growth of shallow groundwater resources in continuous permafrost environments
Links More information: Publisher Index Page (via DOI) Download citation as: RIS | Dublin Core Publication type Article Publication Subtype Journal Article Title The dominance and growth of shallow groundwater resources in continuous permafrost environments Series title Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences DOI 10.1073/pnas.2317873121 Volume 121 Issue 23 Year Published 2024 Language English Publisher Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Contributing office(s) Alaska...
A comparison of contemporary and historical hydrology and water quality in the foothills and coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Arctic Slope, northern Alaska
First posted March 28, 2024 The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique landscape in northern Alaska with limited water resources, substantial biodiversity of rare and threatened species, as well as oil and gas resources. The region has unique hydrology related to perennial springs, and the formation of large aufeis fields—sheets of ice that grow in the river channels where water reaches the surface in the winter and freezes.
Unrecorded Tundra Fires of the Arctic Slope, Alaska USA
This is an early access version, the complete PDF, HTML, and XML versions will be available soon. Open AccessArticle by Eric A. Miller 1,*, Benjamin M. Jones 2, Carson A. Baughman 3, Randi R. Jandt 4, Jennifer L. Jenkins 1 and David A.
A decade of remotely sensed observations highlight complex processes linked to coastal permafrost bluff erosion in the Arctic
Eroding permafrost coasts are likely indicators and integrators of changes in the Arctic System as they are susceptible to the combined effects of declining sea ice extent, increases in open water duration, more frequent and impactful storms, sea-level rise, and warming permafrost. However, few observation sites in the Arctic have yet to link decadal-scale erosion rates with changing environmental conditions due to temporal data gaps.
The presence of rapidly degrading permafrost plateaus in southcentral Alaska
Permafrost presence is determined by a complex interaction of climatic, topographic, and ecological conditions operating over long time scales. In particular, vegetation and organic layer characteristics may act to protect permafrost in regions with a mean annual air temperature (MAAT) above 0 °C. In this study, we document the presence of residual permafrost plateaus on the western Kenai Peninsula lowlands of southcentral Alaska, a region with a MAAT of 1.5 ± 1 °C (1981 to 2010).
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