Arctic Field Projects

Project Title: IPY: Current Climate changes over Eastern Siberia and Interior Alaska and their Impact on Permafrost Landscapes, Ecosystem Dynamics, and Hydrological Regime (Award# 0731739)

PI: Yoshikawa, Kenji (kyoshikawa@alaska.edu)
Phone: (907) 474.6090
Institute/Department: U of Alaska, Fairbanks, Water and Environmental Research Center
IPY Project? YES
Funding Agency: US\Federal\NSF\EHR\DRL
Program Manager: Mr. David Campbell (dcampbel@nsf.gov)
Discipline(s): | Cryosphere | Education and Outreach |

Project Web Site(s):
Institute: http://www.arcticclimatemodeling.com/
IPY: http://www.ipy.org/index.php?ipy/detail/permafrost_observato...
NSF_Award_Info: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0731...
Logistics: http://www.polar.ch2m.com/Files/PDFs/RomanovskyYoshikawaBRWP...
Logistics: http://www.polar.ch2m.com/Files/PDFs/Yoshikawa0731739PlanFin...
Logistics: http://www.polar.ch2m.com/Files/PDFs/YoshikawaPlanFinal2008....
Data: http://www.uaf.edu/permafrost/
Institute: http://www.uaf.edu/water/
Logistics: https://www.polar.ch2m.com/Files/PDFs/Yoshikawa0731739PlanFi...

Science Summary:
This project is establishing long-term permafrost monitoring sites adjacent to schools in the circumpolar permafrost region and providing Native Alaskan students with field experiences and classrooms lessons on permafrost. The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) report renewed concerns that enhanced thawing or degradation of permafrost is having a major impact on infrastructures, coastal processes, and Arctic communities. Most remote villages depend on a subsistence lifestyle, and changing climate and permafrost conditions directly affect Native communities. To better understand these changes, the project is drilling boreholes at 100 Alaskan village schools and installing data loggers with temperature sensors that measure hourly air and permafrost temperatures. Teachers at grade levels ranging from elementary to high school are helping their students download and analyze the data in science classes. To support classroom instruction, the project is developing Permafrost/Remote Sensing Classroom Lesson units and a Permafrost/Remote Sensing module to be made widely available on DVD and their Web site. These activities enable students to collaborate and communicate new ideas, as well as to develop critical thinking skills that transcend the boundaries of the science classroom. Using the Internet, teachers and students can also compare their data with data from other monitoring schools. The scientific information gathered from these stations is also being shared with researchers and the general public via an online permafrost database. The research addresses three of the six International Polar Year themes: The Current State of the Polar Environment, Change in the Polar Environment, and Human Societies in Polar Regions. Through integration of research and education, the project is providing high resolution data on the spatial distribution of the thermal state of permafrost in Alaska, improving the general knowledge of Earth's climatic patterns, bringing science to remote Alaskan villages that tend to have limited exposure to science, and providing an opportunity for younger generations to take part in understanding Earth's climatic and hydrologic systems.

Logistics Summary:
This research builds on the NSF Alaska EPSCoR outreach project, "Permafrost Health" (0346770), and supports the establishment of long-term permafrost/active layer monitoring sites adjacent to about 100 Alaskan schools. The PI will travel to villages in the research area to establish boreholes instrumented with micro dataloggers with temperature sensors to measure air and permafrost temperatures hourly. The researchers will train the local school communities--both teachers and students--to download and analyze the data. Data from these observatories will be made public via the PI’s institutional Web site. During 2008 and 2009, a team of two to three will make several trips, requiring travel via snowmachine, truck, and/or airplane, to Native communities to establish the experiments and/or to download data. During 2009, the PI will make various trips. The first, a one-month snowmachine traverse, begins in Bethel, hub of villages along the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, and ends in Fairbanks. The PI will be accompanied by one field team member on this traverse, an assignment shared by three colleagues (including Ned Rozell, UAF science writer) who rotate through. Next, in late April, the PI will travel via chartered flight to Nome, stopping at several villages en route he will also visit Diomede Island before returning to Fairbanks at the end of the first week in May. Mid-summer and fall trips to Alaska and Canada finish the year. In all, the PI intends to visit almost 50 communities in 2009, either to maintain existing experiments or to install new instruments and teach local students to tend them. In 2010, the PI will revisit sites, traveling via fixed-wing plane and truck as needed. In spring, the team will make trips in mid-April and June/July to remote sites. In September, a team will travel by truck to Yukon sites, and the PI will work with Vladimir Romanovsky at Kaktovik, Barrow, and Wainwright. In 2011, the PI will revisit about 30 sites to retrieve data from existing equipment, beginning with an April visit to Diomede Island. Following the April trip, the PI will continue site visits via fixed wing. CPS is working with the PI to develop details of the air support required for these trips. This work contributes to the IPY Thermal State of Permafrost (TSP) effort.

CPS will provide air charters, vehicle rentals, boat (by reimbursement), remote lodging/subsistence, camp gear, sat phone, snowmachines, and fuel. All other logistical support will be paid for by the PI.

Season	Field Site	Date In	Date Out	#People
2008	Alaska - Ambler	04 / 08 / 2008	04 / 08 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - Anvik	03 / 14 / 2008	03 / 14 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - Bethel	03 / 16 / 2008	03 / 16 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - Brevig Mission	03 / 26 / 2008	03 / 26 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - Deering	03 / 30 / 2008	03 / 30 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - Elim	03 / 21 / 2008	03 / 21 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - Emmonak	03 / 17 / 2008	03 / 17 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - Golovin	03 / 24 / 2008	03 / 24 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - Kiana	04 / 10 / 2008	04 / 10 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - Kivalina	04 / 11 / 2008	04 / 11 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - Kobuk	04 / 09 / 2008	04 / 09 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - Kotlik	03 / 17 / 2008	03 / 17 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - Kotzebue	04 / 01 / 2008	04 / 07 / 2009	3
2008	Alaska - Koyuk	03 / 21 / 2008	03 / 21 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - Nome	03 / 25 / 2008	03 / 25 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - Noorvik	04 / 10 / 2008	04 / 10 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - Selawik	04 / 07 / 2008	04 / 07 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - Shageluk	03 / 15 / 2008	03 / 15 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - Shaktoolik	03 / 20 / 2008	03 / 20 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - Shishmaref	03 / 28 / 2008	03 / 28 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - Shungnak	04 / 09 / 2008	04 / 09 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - St. Michael Island	03 / 18 / 2008	03 / 18 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - Stebbins	03 / 18 / 2008	03 / 18 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - Teller	03 / 26 / 2008	03 / 26 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - Unalakleet	03 / 19 / 2008	03 / 19 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - Wales	03 / 27 / 2008	03 / 27 / 2008	2
2008	Alaska - White Mountain	03 / 25 / 2008	03 / 25 / 2008	2
2009	Alaska - Allakaket	03 / 19 / 2009	03 / 19 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Aniak	03 / 05 / 2009	03 / 15 / 2009	3
2009	Alaska - Anvik	03 / 15 / 2009	03 / 15 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Atmautluak	03 / 04 / 2009	03 / 04 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Atqasuk	05 / 01 / 2009	05 / 01 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Barrow	04 / 05 / 2009	04 / 09 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Bethel	02 / 17 / 2009	03 / 15 / 2009	3
2009	Alaska - Chefornak	02 / 24 / 2009	02 / 25 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Chevak	03 / 01 / 2009	03 / 02 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Chuathbaluk	03 / 06 / 2009	03 / 06 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Cordova	04 / 20 / 2009	04 / 20 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Eek	02 / 20 / 2009	02 / 20 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Elim	04 / 28 / 2009	04 / 28 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Galena	03 / 17 / 2009	03 / 17 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Gambell	05 / 04 / 2009	05 / 04 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Grayling	03 / 16 / 2009	03 / 16 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Holy Cross	03 / 15 / 2009	03 / 15 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Hooper Bay	03 / 02 / 2009	03 / 03 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Hughes	03 / 18 / 2009	03 / 18 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Huslia	03 / 18 / 2009	03 / 18 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Kaltag	03 / 16 / 2009	03 / 16 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Kasigluk	03 / 04 / 2009	03 / 04 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Kenai Peninsula	04 / 21 / 2009	04 / 21 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Kipnuk	02 / 24 / 2009	02 / 24 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Kongiganak	02 / 22 / 2009	02 / 23 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Koyuk	04 / 28 / 2009	04 / 28 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Koyukuk	03 / 16 / 2009	03 / 16 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Kwigillingok	02 / 23 / 2009	02 / 23 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Little Diomede Island	04 / 29 / 2009	04 / 29 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Manley Hot Springs	03 / 21 / 2009	03 / 21 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Napakiak	02 / 19 / 2009	02 / 19 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Napaskiak	02 / 19 / 2009	02 / 19 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Newtok	02 / 27 / 2009	02 / 27 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Nightmute	02 / 25 / 2009	02 / 25 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Nome	04 / 28 / 2009	04 / 28 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Nuiqsut	05 / 02 / 2009	05 / 02 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Nulato	03 / 16 / 2009	03 / 16 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Nunapitchuk	03 / 04 / 2009	03 / 04 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Oscarville	02 / 19 / 2009	02 / 19 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Point Hope	04 / 30 / 2009	04 / 30 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Point Lay	04 / 30 / 2009	04 / 30 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Port Heiden	04 / 22 / 2009	04 / 22 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Quinhagak	02 / 20 / 2009	02 / 20 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Savoonga	05 / 04 / 2009	05 / 04 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Seward Peninsula	04 / 21 / 2009	04 / 21 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Sleetmute	03 / 07 / 2009	03 / 07 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Tanana	03 / 20 / 2009	03 / 20 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Toksook Bay	02 / 26 / 2009	02 / 26 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Tuntutuliak	02 / 21 / 2009	02 / 21 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Tununak	02 / 26 / 2009	02 / 26 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Unalakleet	04 / 27 / 2009	04 / 27 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Wainwright	05 / 01 / 2009	05 / 01 / 2009	2
2009	Alaska - Wales	04 / 29 / 2009	04 / 29 / 2009	2
2009	Canada - Old Crow			2
2009	Canada - Pelly Bay			2
2010	Alaska - Allakaket	03 / 01 / 2010	03 / 02 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Aniak	02 / 20 / 2010	02 / 20 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Anvik	03 / 01 / 2010	03 / 02 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Atmautluak	03 / 04 / 2010	03 / 04 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Atqasuk	04 / 28 / 2010	04 / 28 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Barrow	04 / 05 / 2010	04 / 09 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Bethel	02 / 17 / 2010	03 / 15 / 2010	3
2010	Alaska - Chefornak	02 / 24 / 2010	02 / 25 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Chevak	03 / 01 / 2010	03 / 02 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Chuathbaluk	03 / 06 / 2010	03 / 06 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Cordova	04 / 20 / 2010	04 / 20 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Eek	02 / 20 / 2010	02 / 20 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Elim	04 / 28 / 2010	04 / 28 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Galena	03 / 17 / 2010	03 / 17 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Gambell	04 / 22 / 2010	04 / 22 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Grayling	03 / 01 / 2010	03 / 02 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Holy Cross	03 / 01 / 2010	03 / 02 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Hooper Bay	03 / 01 / 2010	03 / 02 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Hughes	02 / 20 / 2010	02 / 20 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Huslia	03 / 01 / 2010	03 / 02 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Kaltag	03 / 16 / 2010	03 / 16 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Kasigluk	03 / 16 / 2010	03 / 16 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Kenai Peninsula	04 / 21 / 2010	04 / 21 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Kipnuk	02 / 24 / 2010	02 / 24 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Kongiganak	02 / 22 / 2010	02 / 23 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Koyuk	04 / 28 / 2010	04 / 28 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Koyukuk	03 / 16 / 2010	03 / 16 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Kwigillingok	02 / 23 / 2010	02 / 23 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Little Diomede Island	02 / 24 / 2010	02 / 25 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Manley Hot Springs	03 / 01 / 2010	03 / 02 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Napakiak	02 / 19 / 2010	02 / 19 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Newtok	03 / 01 / 2010	03 / 02 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Nightmute	02 / 25 / 2010	02 / 25 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Nome	02 / 20 / 2010	02 / 20 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Nuiqsut	03 / 01 / 2010	03 / 02 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Nulato	03 / 01 / 2010	03 / 02 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Nunapitchuk	03 / 01 / 2010	03 / 02 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Oscarville	02 / 19 / 2010	02 / 19 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Point Hope	02 / 24 / 2010	02 / 25 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Point Lay	03 / 01 / 2010	03 / 02 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Port Heiden	04 / 22 / 2010	04 / 22 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Quinhagak	02 / 20 / 2010	02 / 20 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Savoonga	05 / 04 / 2010	05 / 04 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Seward Peninsula	04 / 21 / 2010	04 / 21 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Sleetmute	03 / 07 / 2010	03 / 07 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Tanana	03 / 01 / 2010	03 / 02 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Toksook Bay	02 / 26 / 2010	02 / 26 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Tuntutuliak	02 / 21 / 2010	02 / 21 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Tununak	02 / 26 / 2010	02 / 26 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Unalakleet	04 / 27 / 2010	04 / 27 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Wainwright	04 / 22 / 2010	04 / 22 / 2010	2
2010	Alaska - Wales	02 / 24 / 2010	02 / 25 / 2010	2
2010	Canada - Old Crow			2
2010	Canada - Pelly Bay	02 / 24 / 2010	02 / 25 / 2010	2
2011	Alaska - Little Diomede Island	04 / 01 / 2011	04 / 03 / 2011	1

Arctic Field Projects

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