From Our Partners
Community Snow Observation project featured in Eos
The Community Snow Observation project, a citizen science effort led in part by AK CASC scientist Gabe Wolken, was featured in an article in Earth & Space Science News this month. The project empowers backcountry recreationists and professionals to gather observational snow depth data from remote locations to improve snow and climate models.
Read the full article, Crowdsourcing Snow Depth Data with Citizen Scientists, in Eos.
Photo: Dave Hill
Alaska EPSCoR Researchers Take First Steps Toward Stream Monitoring
Alaska EPSCoR Receives $20 million NSF award
The National Science Foundation has announced a 5-year, $20 million award to fund the next phase of Alaska NSF EPSCoR research.
The award will support a five-year research project entitled “Fire and Ice: Navigating Variability in Boreal Wildfire Regimes and Subarctic Coastal Ecosystems (F&I).”
Learn more on the Alaska EPSCoR website.
By Rope, Raft, and Air: A Season of Research on Glacier-Dammed Lakes
Read about a season of research at Suicide Basin in Juneau with the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the U.S. Geological Survey.
In the Spotlight
Salmon density exacerbates low dissolved oxygen in Southeast Alaska steams
ACRC researchers Jason Fellman, Eran Hood, and Sonia Nargoski published a paper on the effect of salmon on dissolved oxygen depletion in Southeast Alaska streams in Aquatic Sciences.
New Paper: Large, climate-sensitive soil carbon stocks mapped with pedology-informed machine learning in the North Pacific coastal temperate rainforest
ACRC postdoc Gavin McNicol recently published an assessment of soil organic carbon stock across the north Pacific coastal temperate rainforest in Environmental Research Letters.
Learn more on the Coastal Rainforest Margins Research Network site.
ACRC Undergraduate Intern Receives Environmental Science Award
ACRC undergraduate intern Mollie Dwyer is the latest recipient of the $2,000 UAS Coeur Alaska – Kensington Gold Mine Environmental Science Award. Read about her time working with USFS and UAS researchers at the Juneau Forestry Sciences Lab and in the field this summer at SitNews.
Alpine Monitoring Fieldwork Begins at Blackerby Ridge
ACRC director Allison Bidlack and research technician Croix Fylpaa, with collaborators from the US Forests Service, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the University of Washington, have returned to Blackerby Ridge outside Juneau to complete the installation of an alpine monitoring site as part of the Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments (GLORIA) network. The team will be collecting data on plant and lichen communities and soil temperature. To learn more about this project, visit the alpine monitoring section on our site.
Evening at Egan Talk by ACRC Director Allison Bidlack
Join us at the Egan Library on Friday, October 5th to hear ACRC Director Dr. Allison Bidlack talk about coastal connections, the Pacific coastal temperate rainforest, and ACRC research during the Evening at Egan lecture series.
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