Implications of Fire Disturbance on Soil Carbon Cycling and Permafrost in Black Spruce Forests of Interior Alaska: A Case Study at Hess Creek

Christina Minions1, Jennifer Watts2, Claudia I Czimczik3, Shawn Pedron4, Alexander L Kholodov5, Nicholas Hasson6, Giselle Jimenez4, Valeria Briones2, Bradley Gay7, Helene Genet8, Andrew Mullen9 and Susan Natali2, (1)University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, United States, (2)Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States, (3)Univ of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (4)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States, (6)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory: Code 618, Greenbelt, United States, (8)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (9)Woodwell Climate, Woods Hole, United States