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Yellow-cedar ecology, conservation, and management
Focus is on the cause and consequences of yellow-cedar decline in Alaska and British Columbia. We are developing a conservation strategy based on climate vulnerabilities and... -
Long-term monitoring of oceanographic conditions in Prince William Sound
This project is intended to provide physical and biological measurements that may be used to assess bottom-up impacts on the marine ecosystems of Prince William Sound.... -
Melting ice, habitat change and nutrient flux: Hydrological, biogeochemical a...
The coastal Gulf of Alaska (GoA) region is experiencing accelerating climate change as manifested by rapid recession of glaciers; climate models predict up to a 40% increase in... -
Monitoring change: Mendenhall Glacier watershed-lake expansion, terminus retr...
Since 1998, the Mendenhall Glacier group in the ENVS Program at UAS begun by Dr. Roman Motyka UAS has annually measured glacier mass balance, terminus position and pro-glacial... -
Pan-Arctic ice-wedge degradation in warming permafrost and its influence on t...
Ice wedges are common features of the subsurface in permafrost regions. They develop by repeated frost cracking and ice vein growth over hundreds to thousands of years....
