{"id":475,"date":"2018-11-05T19:18:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T19:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/?p=475"},"modified":"2019-08-26T15:19:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T15:19:37","slug":"an-icy-world-defrosted-nasa-targets-arctic-permafrost-thaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/2018\/11\/05\/an-icy-world-defrosted-nasa-targets-arctic-permafrost-thaw\/","title":{"rendered":"An icy world defrosted: NASA targets Arctic permafrost thaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_478\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-478\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-478\" src=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/drunk_forest2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/drunk_forest2.jpg 720w, https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/drunk_forest2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tipsy trees in a &#8220;drunken forest&#8221; &#8212; thawing permafrost and destabilized soil cause the trees to lean<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em style=\"font-size: 8px;\">Credit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ldrose\/235292281\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Idrose<\/a>\/flickr<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott Goetz<\/strong> and NAU Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (ECOSS) researcher <strong>Ted Schuur<\/strong> were recently featured in a\u00a0<em>Science Magazine\u00a0<\/em>article highlighting permafrost research conducted under NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/above\/\">ABoVE<\/a> project.\u00a0 Schuur&#8217;s experimental field studies measure how much carbon is released to the atmosphere due to permafrost thaw.\u00a0 This work has now gained an airborne ally.\u00a0 NASA aircraft capable of mapping topography and emitting radar pulses that penetrate the ground surface and measure depth to permafrost are now flying missions in conjunction with field-based permafrost studies.\u00a0 These flights will help link field based measurements to remote sensing data and scale these fine scale measurements up to larger spatial scales.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more about this project <a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/357\/6346\/12\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Read more about &#8220;drunken trees&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2014\/04\/140417-drunken-trees-melting-permafrost-global-warming-science\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit:\u00a0Idrose\/flickr Scott Goetz and NAU Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (ECOSS) researcher Ted Schuur were recently featured in a\u00a0Science Magazine\u00a0article highlighting permafrost research conducted under NASA&#8217;s ABoVE project.\u00a0 Schuur&#8217;s experimental field studies measure how much carbon is released to the atmosphere due to permafrost thaw.\u00a0 This work has now gained an airborne ally.\u00a0 NASA &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/2018\/11\/05\/an-icy-world-defrosted-nasa-targets-arctic-permafrost-thaw\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An icy world defrosted: NASA targets Arctic permafrost thaw&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}