Rapid Arctic Transitions in Relation to Infrastructure and Climate Change: Comparison of the Permafrost and Geoecological Conditions in the Bovanenkovo Gas Field, Russia and the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field, Alaska
Donald A Walker1, Martha K Raynolds2, Timo Kumpula3, Yuri Shur4, Mikhail Z Kanevskiy4, Gary Kofinas4, Marina O Leibman5, George V Matyshak6,7, Howard E Epstein8, Marcel Buchhorn4, Lisa Wirth4 and Prof. Bruce C. Forbes, PhD9, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Geobotany Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)University of Eastern Finland, Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, Joensuu, Finland, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (5)Tyumen Scientific Center, Earth Cryosphere Institute, Tyumen, Russia, (6)Lomonosov Moscow State University, Soil Science, Moscow, Russia, (7)Earth Cryosphere Institute, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Tyumen, Russia, (8)University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (9)University of Lapland, Arctic Centre, Rovaniemi, Finland
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