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PALIMMN Launched
The Pan Arctic Lake Ice Methane Monitoring Network (PALIMMN) announces its program to map the locations and abundance of methane bubbles in winter lake ice and get measurements from community members, educators, students and other... (more)
Researchers Ponder the Fate of Alaska Village Dump Toxins
More than 200 villages are spread throughout Alaska, many of them on river systems and low-lying tundra with permafrost beneath it. These conditions have contributed to the problems many villages have with waste disposal; village dumps are often sprawling mounds of garbage spilling into ponds or sloughs. A University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate student is sampling the water and soil around village dumps to see how, or if, pollutants are migrating into the surrounding environment.
Edda Mutter visited seven villages in rural Alaska last summer... (more)
Credit: Todd Paris
Kate Walter Anthony, a WERC researcher, fires off a plume of methane from a local Fairbanks pond in November 2009. The methane lies trapped within the ice and seeps from thermokarst lake sediments below.
