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of the structure and function of Arctic terrestrial ecosystems
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When the challenges of the day could include polar bears, harsh weather and navigating the remote Arctic tundra, safety becomes central in a whole new way.
The first climate scientist to head the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, recently visited two ORNL-led field research facilities in Minnesota and Alaska to witness how these critically important projects are informing our understanding of the future climate and its impact on communities.
A complex computer simulation conducted at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the US predicts that the collapse of the tundra due to global warming is unlikely to cause uncontrolled melting.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists set out to address one of the biggest uncertainties about how carbon-rich permafrost will respond to gradual sinking of the land surface as temperatures rise. Using a high-performance computer simulation, the research team found that soil subsidence is unlikely to cause rampant thawing in the future.
Using a high-performance computer simulation, the research team found that soil subsidence is unlikely to cause rampant thawing in the future.
Newswise — Three scientists from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS.
Recognition honors contributions to understanding plants' responses to global climate change
Congratulations to AGU’s 2022 section award recipients and named lecturers!
Omics techniques reveal shifting microbial presence and function, and the importance of interactions between microbes that carry out iron, sulfur, and carbon metabolism.
ORNL’s Stan Wullschleger has won the 2022 Commitment to Human Diversity in Ecology Award from the Ecological Society of America.
Novel multi-sensor drone imagery enhances our understanding of the spatial patterns of Arctic vegetation.
Secretary Granholm joined leadership and top scientists and engineers online at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for a two-hour whirlwind tour. One of the 14 stops included the NGEE Arctic Project.
Improved data, models and analyses from researchers in the latest global climate assessment report provide new levels of certainty about what the future holds for the planet.
ORNL News highlights permafrost study
Three Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) scientists have been selected as recipients of the 2017 U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science Early Career Research Award out of a pool of ~700.
Margaret Torn, a senior scientist in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)’s Earth & Environmental Sciences Area (EESA), has been named by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) as a 2017 AGU Fellow.
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has named Susan Hubbard, Associate Laboratory Director for the Earth & Environmental Sciences Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as a 2017 AGU Fellow.
Prevailing nutrient uptake models do not fit Arctic plants. Scientists test a new option that overcomes older models’ shortcomings.
Scientists studying Arctic ecosystems have long relied on established—yet limited—methods to help them understand how elements within an ecosystem interact with each other.
For pioneering zonation-based estimation methodologies, with a focus on novel approaches that use geophysical data and their application to DOE challenges in environmental remediation, carbon cycle, and water resources.
Findings by Berkeley Lab researchers mean the Arctic may be even less of a carbon sink than previously thought.
About two thirds of the gas produced by a study area near Barrow, Alaska, came from increasingly abundant greenery covering only 5% of the landscape, researchers estimate.
If you’d asked permafrost researcher Vladimir Romanovsky five years ago if he thought the permafrost of the North Slope of Alaska was in danger of substantial thaw this century because of global warming, he would have said no.
Workshop on Trait Methods for Representing Ecosystem Change; Rockville, Maryland, 18–19 November 2015.
Researchers trace carbon through Arctic soils and find an unlikely source of methane and surprisingly low methane oxidation in watersheds throughout northern Alaska.
If you’d asked permafrost researcher Vladimir Romanovsky five years ago if he thought the permafrost of the North Slope of Alaska was in danger of substantial thaw this century because of global warming, he would have said no.