Collaborative Research: Community based permafrost and climate monitoring in rural Alaska. Ground temperature records, 2016-2019

• Main Authors: Kholodov, Alexander, Panda, Santosh
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: NSF Arctic Data Center 2021
• Subjects: Ground temperature; Alaska; Collaborative Research: Community based permafrost and climate monitoring in rural Alaska; Kuskokwim; permafrost
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a27d2q83z; https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A27D2Q83Z

The overarching goal of this project is to help the tribal communities of Upper Kuskokwim region take the lead in assessing and responding to the environmental changes that are coming with warming climate and thawing permafrost. Alaska's land, water, plants, wildlife, and seasons are undergoing a great upheaval, and its people, especially the tribal communities living in remote villages are directly and severely impacted by these changes. The project will help build the tribal capacity to monitor changes in local climate and permafrost by providing the Tribes the scientific knowledge and skills necessary to acquire, analyze, and interpret scientific data through training and education. The project will establish local climate and permafrost observation system and map land cover and permafrost in the Upper Kuskokwim region. It will also develop a geo-hazard map for the region to facilitate safe subsistence and recreational practices and land use. The data set contains the records of ground temperature in 2016-2019 at the 22 observation points.