GC046
Impacts of a Changing Climate on Alaska’s Permafrost Landscapes and Infrastructure

Session ID#: 159897

Session Description:
Alaskan permafrost research spans tens of millions of hectares in area and generations of researchers dating back to the mid-20th century. Key to understanding the consequences of changing climate are the well-documented, long-term observations of ground temperatures, coastal erosion, vegetation, landscape dynamics and carbon cycling. The proposed session will focus on current measurements and multi-year records of changing permafrost and its implications for infrastructure and natural environments. We aim to elucidate the current state of knowledge and showcase the results of these ongoing and legacy measurements, mitigations, and potential for future changes.  The session will be facilitated by the U.S. Permafrost Association as it celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2022. We seek participation from a diverse set of participants, including scientists and engineers from all fields of permafrost research. In particular, studies on engineering approaches that preserve the integrity of permafrost in rural communities encountering permafrost-related hazards are encouraged.
Index Terms:

0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0702 Permafrost [CRYOSPHERE]
0706 Active layer [CRYOSPHERE]
0760 Engineering [CRYOSPHERE]

Primary Convener:  Anna M Wagner, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), Fort Wainwright, AK, United States
Convener:  Jerry Brown, U.S. Permafrost Association (USPA), Falmouth, MA, United States; Retired, Falmouth, MA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Emma Lathrop, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
 
Remotely sensing 71 years of Permafrost Soil Cultivation in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA (1045814)
Benjamin M Jones1, Melissa Ward Jones2, Mikhail Z Kanevskiy1, Yuri Shur3, Glenna Gannon4, Benjamin Gaglioti1, Tobias Schwoerer5 and Chien-Lu Ping6, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Northern Engineering, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Northern Engineering, Fairbanks, United States, (3)University Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Northern Engineering, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Extension, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)Univ Alaska Fairbanks, Palmer, United States
 
Ice-wedge Degradation and Stabilization in the Prudhoe Bay Oilfield, Alaska (2011-2022) (1046447)
Mikhail Z Kanevskiy1, Yuri Shur2, Donald A Walker3, Benjamin M Jones4, Torre Jorgenson5, Emily Watson-Cook6, Amy Lynn Breen7, Helena Bergstedt8, Ronald P Daanen9, Anna K Liljedahl10, Jana Peirce3 and Martha K Raynolds11, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Northern Engineering, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Geobotany Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Northern Engineering, Fairbanks, United States, (5)Alaska Ecoscience, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Geobotany Center, Fairbanks, United States, (7)University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (8)B.Geos, Korneuburg, Austria, (9)DGGS, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (10)Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States, (11)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Extending the Life of Foundations on Permafrost Relying on Thermosyphons in Alaska (1051055)
Edward Yarmak, Arctic Foundations, Inc, Anchorage, AK, UNITED STATES and Austen Whitney, Arctic Foundations, Inc., Anchorage, United States
 
Secrets of the North Slope: Hydroclimate Influences on Pingo Development in Northern Alaska (1057665)
Logan Wieland, Eric S Klein and Kynan Hughson, University of Alaska Anchorage, Geological Sciences, Anchorage, United States
 
Rapid and gradual permafrost thaw: A tale of two sites (1064922)
Burke J Minsley, USGS, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Denver, United States, Neal J. Pastick, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, Stephanie R. James, University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, United States, Dana Nossov Brown, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, Bruce K Wylie, USGS EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, M. Andy Kass, Aarhus University, Geoscience, Aarhus C, Denmark and Vladimir E Romanovsky, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
Permafrost and Climate Change: Carbon Cycle Feedbacks From the Warming Arctic (1067978)
Edward Schuur1, Benjamin Abbott2, Roisin Commane3, Jessica Gilman Ernakovich4, Eugenie Susanne Euskirchen5, Gustaf Hugelius6, Guido Grosse7, Miriam Jones8, Charles Koven9, David M Lawrence10, Michael M Loranty11, Marguerite Mauritz12, David Olefeldt13, Susan Natali14, Heidi Rodenhizer14, Christina Schaedel15, Jens Strauss16, Claire C Treat17, Merritt R Turetsky18 and Verity G Salmon19, (1)Northern Arizona University, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (2)Brigham Young University, Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences, Provo, UT, United States, (3)Columbia University, New York, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (6)Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm, Sweden, (7)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Permafrost Research Section, Potsdam, Germany, (8)U.S. Geological Survey., Reston, VA, United States, (9)University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, United States, (10)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)Colgate University, Geography, Hamilton, NY, United States, (12)SDSU, San Diego, United States, (13)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (14)Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States, (15)Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (16)Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Permafrost Research Section, Potsdam, Germany, (17)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (18)University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States, (19)University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
 
Assessing Landscape Vulnerability to Permafrost Thaw, Wildfires, and Hydrologic Changes on Boreal Alaska (1068806)
Helene Genet, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Torre Jorgenson, Alaska Ecoscience, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Thomas Douglas, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Alaska, Fort Wainwright, AK, United States and Bruce G. Marcot, USDA Forest service, Portland Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Portland, OR, United States
 
Understanding Permafrost Landscape Evolution: Ice-Wedge Trough Network Change Detection from Historical Aerial Imagery using Convolutional Neural Networks and Graph Analysis (1069091)
Elias Manos1, Chandi Witharana2, Benjamin M Jones3, Melissa Ward Jones3 and Anna K Liljedahl4, (1)University of Connecticut, Natural Resources and the Environment, Groton, CT, United States, (2)University of Connecticut, Natural Resources and the Environment, Storrs, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Northern Engineering, Fairbanks, United States, (4)Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States
 
Next Generation Permafrost Map for Alaska (1069904)
Torre Jorgenson, Alaska Ecoscience, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Mikhail Z Kanevskiy, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Northern Engineering, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Yuri Shur, University Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Northern Engineering, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Benjamin M Jones, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Northern Engineering, Fairbanks, United States and Jess Grunblatt, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, United States
 
Results of Long-term Active Layer Monitoring in Permafrost-Affected Areas of Alaska. (1072556)
Nikolay I Shiklomanov1, Dmitry A Streletskiy1, Frederick E Nelson2, Kelsey E Nyland3 and Anna E Klene4, (1)George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, (2)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (3)The George Washington University, Department of Geography, Washington, DC, United States, (4)University of Montana, Geography, Missoula, MT, United States
 
Disparate permafrost landscape changes following the 2015 Sagavanirktok River Flood, Alaska (1074111)
Simon Zwieback1, Mark T McClernan2, Mikhail Z Kanevskiy3, Torre Jorgenson4, Donald A Walker5, Qianyu Chang6, Helena Bergstedt7, Horacio A Toniolo1, Vladimir E Romanovsky8 and Franz Josef Meyer9, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, St. Louis, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Northern Engineering, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)Alaska Ecoscience, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Geobotany Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)University of Guelph, Geography, Environment and Geomatics, Guelph, ON, Canada, (7)B.Geos, Korneuburg, Austria, (8)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (9)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States
 
TRANS-ALASKA PIPELINE SYSTEM - ADAPTING TO PERMAFROST WARMING (Invited) (1098980)
Wendy Mathieson, Lake Forest Park, WA, UNITED STATES
 
Estimating Rates of Permafrost Degradation and their Impact on Ecosystems across Alaska: Arctic and Subarctic Engineering Design Tool. (1102041)
Sergey S Marchenko1, Kevin Bjella2, Dmitry Nicolsky3 and Vladimir E Romanovsky1, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Alaska, Fairbanks, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States
 
Spatial and Temporal Influences of Infrastructure on Seasonal Snowmelt Timing, Vegetation Productivity and Early Season Surface Water Alaskan Coastal Communities (1108369)
Helena Bergstedt1, Benjamin M Jones2, Donald A Walker3, Jana Peirce3, Annett Bartsch1, Georg Pointner4, Mikhail Z Kanevskiy5, Martha K Raynolds6 and Marcel Buchhorn7, (1)B.Geos, Korneuburg, Austria, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Northern Engineering, Fairbanks, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Alaska Geobotany Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)b.geos GmbH, Korneuburg, Austria, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Northern Engineering, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (7)VITO, Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Mol, Belgium
 
The stable water isotope, carbon and nitrogen, and trace metal composition representing the most recent 40,000 years of Interior Alaska permafrost- implications for formation and thaw processes (1119469)
Thomas A Douglas and Amanda J Barker, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Alaska, Fort Wainwright, AK, United States
 
Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis of a 28 Year Active Layer Thickness Record from North-Central Alaska (1130943)
Vasiliy Andreevich Tolmanov, Michigan State University, Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, United States and Frederick E Nelson, Northern Michigan University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Geographical Sciences, Marquette, United States
 
60 Years of Near-Surface Permafrost Monitoring in Utqiagvik, Alaska (1131524)
Kelsey E Nyland, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States and Rachel Spiegel, George Washington University, Department of Geography, Washington, United States
 
Laboratory Testing of Thermosyphon Fin Designs (1133798)
Anna M Wagner, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Alaska, Fort Wainwright, AK, United States, Edward Yarmak, Arctic Foundations, Inc, Anchorage, AK, UNITED STATES and Alexander Stott, NAVSEA Warfare Centers, Newport, United States
 
Environmental Controls on Subsurface Temperature and Permafrost Thaw Progression at a Discontinuous Permafrost Site in Interior, AK (1136858)
Joel Eklof, University of Washington, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States, Jessica D Lundquist, University of Washington, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States, Mark P Waldrop, US Geological Survey, Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center, Menlo Park, CA, United States, Jing Tao, Duke University, Durham, United States, Baptiste Dafflon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, Rebecca Bergquist Neumann, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Katie Ring, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States
 
Coastal Change Research Along Alaska’s Arctic Coast (1158082)
Ann Gibbs, USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
 
Thermokarst processes observed by remote sensing and ground surveys at intact and disturbed tundra on the North Slope, Alaska (1167728)
Go Iwahana1, Robert Busey1, Reginald R Muskett2, Simon Zwieback3, Franz Josef Meyer4, Hiroshi Ohno5, Masao Uchida6 and Kazuyuki Saito7, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (5)Kitami Institute of Technology, Kitami, Japan, (6)NIES, Tsukuba, Japan, (7)JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan
 
High-Resolution Soil Moisture for the Northern Latitude Regions to Monitor Permafrost Critical for Climate Change Studies (1172859)
Ehsan Jalilvand, Michigan State University, Biosystem and Agricultural Engineering, East Lansing, MI, United States, Narendra N Das, Michigan State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, East Lansing, United States; Michigan State University, Biosystem and Agricultural Engineering, East Lansing, United States, Andreas Colliander, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Steven Chan, Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Assessing Micrometeorological Differences Related to the Built Environment in Utqiagvik, Alaska (1185839)
Mirella Shaban1, MacKenzie Nelson1, Leena Cho2, Chan Charoonsophonsak3, Georgina Davis3, Thomas Douglas4, Tobias Gerken5, Claire G Griffin1, Matthew G Jull2, Luis Felipe Rosado Murillo6, Lars Nelson7, Caitlin D Wylie8 and Howard E Epstein1, (1)University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, United States, (2)University of Virginia, School of Architecture, Charlottesville, United States, (3)Cold Climate Housing Research Center, Fairbanks, United States, (4)Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Alaska, Fort Wainwright, AK, United States, (5)James Madison University, School of Integrated Sciences, Harrisonburg, United States, (6)University of Notre Dame, Technology Ethics Center, St. Joseph, United States, (7)TRIBN LLC, Utqiagvik, AK, United States, (8)University of Virginia, School of Engineering, Charlottesville, United States
 
An Analysis of Alaskan Permafrost Literature and it’s Relation to Climate Change and Infrastructure (1188685)
Kristina Levine, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States
 
Evaluating the Impact of Snow and Ice Roads on Tundra Landscapes in Northern Alaska (1189709)
Bob Bolton, University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Go Iwahana, University of Alaska Fairbanks, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, United States, Julian Dann, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States and Rawser Spicer, International Arctic Research Center, Fairbanks, United States
 
Determination of Ice Content using Latent Heat during Soil Freezing and Thawing (1192686)
Tugce Baser1, Anshu Abhinav2 and Ivan Mineyev2, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States, (2)University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States
 
Tensile Capacity of a Single Helix Helical Pile under Changing Environmental Conditions (1193147)
Tugce Baser, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States and Kamran Nawaz, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States
 
A Field-Based Rainfall Simulator Tests the Influence of Vegetation on Soil Biogeochemistry and Hydrothermal Properties in Discontinuous Permafrost (1194398)
Shannon Dillard, University of Wisconsin Madison, Geography, Madison, WI, United States; Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Los Alamos, United States, Katrina E Bennett, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Nathan Alec Conroy, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Yu Zhang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, United States, Caleb Renner, Idaho State University, Geosciences, Pocatello, United States, Lauren Thomas, University of Maryland, College Park, United States, Christian G Andresen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States and Erika Marin-Spiotta, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geography, Madison, WI, United States
 
Multiphysics Model for Local Water and Ice Contents in Thawing Permafrost: Model Description and Verification (1199052)
Yeong Min Kim, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States and Tugce Baser, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States
 
Warming and Thawing Permafrost in Alaska (Invited) (1041060)
Vladimir E Romanovsky1, Dmitry Nicolsky2, Alexander L Kholodov2, Louise Melanie Farquharson3, Sergey S Marchenko4, Thomas Colby Wright2 and William Cable5, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, United States, (3)Geophysical Institute Permafrost Laboratory, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Fairbanks, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (5)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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