{"id":763,"date":"2020-04-29T23:35:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T23:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/?p=763"},"modified":"2020-09-03T15:52:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T15:52:40","slug":"a-warming-arctic-turns-topsy-turvy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/2020\/04\/29\/a-warming-arctic-turns-topsy-turvy\/","title":{"rendered":"A warming Arctic turns topsy turvy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"657\" src=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2968_clouds-obscuring-Yellowknife_and_Great_Slave_Lake-1024x657.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2968_clouds-obscuring-Yellowknife_and_Great_Slave_Lake-1024x657.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2968_clouds-obscuring-Yellowknife_and_Great_Slave_Lake-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2968_clouds-obscuring-Yellowknife_and_Great_Slave_Lake-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2968_clouds-obscuring-Yellowknife_and_Great_Slave_Lake.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption> Clouds obscure Yellowknife and Great Slave Lake in Canada&#8217;s Northwest Territories. The ABoVE team is studying approximately 4 million square kilometers (more than 1.5 million square miles) of northwestern North America, spanning from Canada&#8217;s Hudson Bay to Alaska&#8217;s Seward Peninsula. Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Last summer was&nbsp;<strong>hot<\/strong>&nbsp;in Alaska.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><em>How hot was it, you ask?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Well, last summer was&nbsp;<em>so<\/em>&nbsp;hot, salmon were literally cooking themselves in the rivers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Bad joke? Perhaps. While you won\u2019t find river-boiled salmon on the menu at your local seafood restaurant anytime soon, it\u2019s a fact that last July, as Alaska and much of the Arctic experienced near-record warmth, the water temperature in some Alaskan rivers reached an unfathomable 82 degrees Fahrenheit (28 degrees Celsius). The abnormally warm waters led to mass salmon die-offs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p> Sadly, the fate of the simmering salmon, while exaggerated, stems from a disturbing reality. As the Arctic warms three times faster than the rest of our planet, this excess heat is taking an increasingly severe toll on Arctic ecosystems and Earth\u2019s climate. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p> Ask Chip Miller. The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory atmospheric scientist has spent much of the past decade crisscrossing Alaska and Canada as a lead scientist on two NASA airborne field campaigns: The Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE) and the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/news\/2968\/a-warming-arctic-turns-topsy-turvy\/\">Read on<\/a> to explore how airborne remote sensing helps Arctic and Boreal scientists understand permafrost, wildfires, caribou, methane hotspots, biome shifts and much more&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chip Miller, ABoVE airborne lead scientist, shares his experiences from thousands of meters up, and GEODE\/ABoVE science lead Scott Goetz describes a northward march of shrubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer was&nbsp;hot&nbsp;in Alaska. How hot was it, you ask? Well, last summer was&nbsp;so&nbsp;hot, salmon were literally cooking themselves in the rivers. Bad joke? Perhaps. While you won\u2019t find river-boiled salmon on the menu at your local seafood restaurant anytime soon, it\u2019s a fact that last July, as Alaska and much of the Arctic experienced &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/2020\/04\/29\/a-warming-arctic-turns-topsy-turvy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A warming Arctic turns topsy turvy&#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\/763"}],"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=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}