Monitoring Permafrost Degradation in Alaska

• Main Authors: Edlund * , Christopher, Prigge, Diedrich
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: AFIT Scholar 2017
• Subjects: #climate; Permafrost; Facility Operations; Facility Construction; Facility Design; CRREL; Tomography; Climate Change; Seasonal Freeze; Ground Temperature; Civil Engineering; Construction Engineering; Construction Engineering and Management; Environmental Design; Environmental Monitoring; Geological Engineering; Geology; Meteorology; Soil Science; Urban; Community and Regional Planning; Eielson; permafrost; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholar.afit.edu/facpub/1358

The AFIT-CRREL team conducted two ground surveys to optimize the locations of the ground monitoring stations at Eielson. Using Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT), the engineers assessed two intersecting transect lines near the south loop of Eielson’s taxiway. This location will see the bulk of...