Report documents landscape changes at Prudhoe Bay
December 8, 2014
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.