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Sveta Berezoskaya and Romain Provost measure stream flow of a small creek near Barrow.

Credit: Anna Liljedahll

Drunken trees in a black spruce forest near Fairbanks, Alaska. As permafrost thaws, the ground subsides, and surface moisture conditions can become too wet for the trees to survive.

Credit: Miriam Jones

Thermokarst lakes in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.

Credit: Miriam Jones

The rhizones pictured above are used to extract microbe samples from the sediment core. The microbes being studied are responible for producing and oxidizing methane.

Credit: Mat Wooler

The wind near Barrow, Alaska has carved and packed this snow surface.

Credit: Sveta Berezovskaya

Douglasia ochotensis grows 30 miles south of Prudehoe Bay, Alaska. It is one of the first flowers to bloom in the Arctic sometime in June.

Credit: Sveta Berezovskaya

Joel Bailey and Peter Prokein install equipment that will send weather data back to the University of Alaska Fairbanks some 200 miles to the south.

Credit: Sveta Berezovskaya

Rainbow over a peatland in the Susitna Valley, just to the south of the Alaska Range.

Credit: Miriam Jones

The Alyeska oil pipeline seen from an altitude of 500 feet about 20 miles south of Prudhoe Bay. The pipeline acts as a snow fence which retains more snow than the surrounding tundra.

Credit: Sveta Berezovskaya

The polygonal fractures in this tundra near the Deadhorse airport are caused by repeated thawing and freezing.

Credit: Sveta Berezovskaya

Robert Gieck and Joel Homan take stream flow measurements with a hand held FlowTracker in late May 2007

Credit: Sveta Berezovskaya

Weather conditions in early April cultivate this rime ice on a precipitation gauge in Barrow. Rime forms when supercooled droplets collect and rapidly crystalize on a surface.

Credit: Sveta Berezovskaya

Thermally-grown ice becoming 'candled' as it decays on an Arctic lake south of Deadhorse on June 9, 2009.

Credit: Sveta Berezovskaya

Itkillik River surface water monitoring station, view from the bluff, near the northern foothills of the Brooks range

Credit: Emily Youcha

Massive ice wedge on near Cape Espenberg.

Credit: Miriam Jones

Permafrost degradation on the southern Seward Peninsula. The lake formed as a previously frozen ice wedge thawed.

Credit: Miriam Jones

Rainbow on the southern Seward Peninsula.

Credit: Miriam Jones

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Feb

Researcher takes integrative approach in her work on freshwater

IARC research faculty Jessie Cable will discuss her work on Bayesian modeling approaches and their connection to hydrology research.

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Jan

Looking back: What organic carbon history can tell us about Arctic carbon cycling

WERC graduate research assistant Ben Gaglioti discuss his work on stored organic carbon in arctic permafrost at the Feb. 3 WERC Friday Seminar Series.

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