Saturday, April 22, 2006
Spring in the air
Well, headed up for a week of snow surveys in around Toolik Lake camp and northward tomorrow morning. I think there may be internet up there so if anything cool crops up you may hear from me otherwise... nothing till next week.
In the meantime, another good night of meat eating before the summer fire season comes.
I worry a bit about that fire hole that it doesn't melt the permafrost to much (only 2 feet below ground surface...) and turn into a small thermokarst pond or... worse:
Pretty classic picture from the Fairbanks area I think. I found it searching around for thermokarst ponds off this Powerpoint PDF (6 MB) about climate change, fire frequency and stuff. If you have the time to peruse it's interesting. Lots of pictures and plots from his stuff, Larry's stuff and others.
PS. Been procrastinating on my Arctic Engineering and Permafrost class homework and somewhere along the way this morning came across these:
Poop freeze pet spray
A bunch of people who collect useless pictures odd things
In the meantime, another good night of meat eating before the summer fire season comes.
I worry a bit about that fire hole that it doesn't melt the permafrost to much (only 2 feet below ground surface...) and turn into a small thermokarst pond or... worse:
Pretty classic picture from the Fairbanks area I think. I found it searching around for thermokarst ponds off this Powerpoint PDF (6 MB) about climate change, fire frequency and stuff. If you have the time to peruse it's interesting. Lots of pictures and plots from his stuff, Larry's stuff and others.
PS. Been procrastinating on my Arctic Engineering and Permafrost class homework and somewhere along the way this morning came across these:
Poop freeze pet spray
A bunch of people who collect useless pictures odd things
