1. Exploring the Relationship Between Permafrost Degradation and Remotely Sensed Snow Seasonality in the North Slope of Alaska
Ksenia Lepikhina and Jeffery Thompson (mentor)
Earth Lab - Project Permafrost

2. What is permafrost?
Impacts of a Warming Arctic; Alexander, Cherry; Symon, Carolyn; Corell, Robert; 2004

3. How does change affect us?
Warping the ground
Burning methane bubbles

4. Purpose of research

5. Expected Results

6. Methods
Snow seasonality (moderate resolution optical satellite based imagery)
Active layer depth (point data)

7. 2016

8. 2016

9. 2016

10. Summary data for first snow - full snow season
Number of days after August 1, the year before the snow year shown in the table.

11. Internship Goals Implement a data management scheme Metadata
Snow seasonality and active layer depths
** Data used for this project is obtained from the Geographic Information Network of Alaska’s (GINA) MODIS satellite.

12. Questions Ksenia Lepikhina Earth Lab - Project Permafrost