Ben Abbott and Jay Jones, University of Alaska Fairbanks (IMAGE)

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Ben Abbott and Jay Jones, University of Alaska Fairbanks

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Ben Abbott, graduate student, right, and Jay Jones, professor of biology, both of the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks collect soil cores and gas flux measurements from a landscape north of the IAB Toolik Field Station on the North Slope where permafrost has thawed and the ground has collapsed - called a thermokarst. Abbott and Jones are part of the National Science Foundation funded thermokarst project #08-0341.

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Photo by Marie Gilbert/IAB.

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