Contact: Marie Gilbert
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University of Alaska Fairbanks

Ben Abbott, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Caption: Ben Abbott, graduate student, records gas flux measurements from a landscape where permafrost has thawed and the ground has collapsed - called a thermokarst - just north of the Institute of Arctic Biology Toolik Field Station on the North Slope. Abbott is part of the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Credit: Photo by Marie Gilbert/IAB.

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