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Alaska Permafrost Studies

Current Alaska Permafrost Studies Project Publications

Parsekian, A.D, G. Grosse, J.O. Walbrecker, M. Muller-Petke, K. Keating, L. Liu, B.M. Jones, and R. Knight. In Press. Detecting unfrozen sediments below thermokarst lakes with Surface Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Geophysical Research Letters.

Daanen R. P., G. Grosse, M. M. Darrow, T. D. Hamilton, and B. M. Jones. 2012. Rapid movement of frozen debris lobes: implications for permafrost degradation and slope instability in the Brooks Range, Alaska. Natural Hazards and Earth System Science, 12, 1521-1537, 2012,doi:10.5194/nhess-12-1521-2012. (http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/12/1521/2012/nhess-12-1521-2012.html)

Jones BM, Grosse G, Hinkel KM, Arp CD, Walker S, Beck RA, Galloway JP (2012): Assessment of pingo distribution and morphometry using an IfSAR derived DSM, western Arctic Coastal Plain, northern Alaska. Geomorphology. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.08.007

Grosse, G., and Jones, B.M. 2011. Spatial distribution of pingos in Northern Asia. The Cryosphere 5:13-33

Jones, B. M., G. Grosse, C. D. Arp, M. C. Jones, K. M. Walter Anthony, and V. E. Romanovsky. 2011. Modern thermokarst lake dynamics in the continuous permafrost zone, northern Seward Peninsula, Alaska, J. Geophys. Res., 116:G00M03, DOI:10.1029/2011JG001666.

Parsekian AD, Jones BM, Jones MC, Grosse G, Walter Anthony KM, Slater L (2011): Geometry of floating vegetation mats on the expanding margins of thermokarst lakes, northern Seward Peninsula, Alaska, USA. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. doi:10.1002/esp.2210

Jorgenson, M. T., K. Yoshikawa, M. Kanevskiy, Y. Shur, V. Romanovsky, S., Marchenko, G. Grosse, J. Brown, and B. M. Jones. 2008. Permafrost characteristics of Alaska. Ninth International Conference on Permafrost Proceedings.

Munroe, J.S., J.A. Doolittle, M.Z. Kanevskiy, K.M. Hinkel, B.M. Jones, Y. Shur, F.E. Nelson, and J. M. Kimble. 2007. Application of Ground-Penetrating Radar Imagery for the Three-Dimensional Visualization of Near-Surface Structures in Ice-Rich Permafrost, Barrow, Alaska. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 18(4):309-321.