Report documents landscape changes at Prudhoe Bay

December 8, 2014

University Relations

The Alaska Geobotany Center has published a summary of landscape and permafrost changes at the Prudhoe Bay oil field.

"Forty-six years after the discovery of oil at Prudhoe Bay, we are still learning about the ecological consequences of large-scale infrastructure expansion and the impacts of climate change in ice-rich permafrost environments," wrote lead editor Donald "Skip" Walker in the introduction. Professor Walker directs the geobotany center at UAF's Institute of Arctic Biology.

The summary is available online at http://bit.ly/AGC14-01.