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2025

  • Yang, Dedi, et al. “ Fine-Scale Landscape Characteristics, Vegetation Composition, and Snowmelt Timing Control Phenological Heterogeneity across Low-Arctic Tundra Landscapes in Western Alaska”. Environmental Research Ecology, vol. 3, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-664X/ad9eb8.
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  • Wang, Chen, et al. “Advancing the Understanding of Snow Accumulation, Melting, and Associated Thermal Insulation Using Spatially Dense Snow Depth and Temperature Time Series”. Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 52, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL114189.
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  • Bachand, Claire, et al. “Brief Communication: Monitoring Snow Depth Using Small, Cheap, and Easy-to-Deploy snow–ground Interface Temperature Sensors”. The Cryosphere, vol. 19, no. 19, 2025, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-393-2025.
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  • Wang, Xiaorong, et al. “Can large‐scale Satellite Products Track the Effects of Atmospheric Dryness and Soil Water Deficit on Ecosystem Productivity under Droughts?”. Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 52, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL110785 .
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  • Kim, Kwansoo, et al. “Determination of Ground Subsidence Around Snow Fences in the Arctic Region”. Lithosphere, vol. 2025, 2025, https://doi.org/10.2113/2025/lithosphere_2024_215.
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  • Shirley, Ian A, et al. “Disentangling the Impacts of Microtopography and Shrub Distribution on Snow Depth in a Subarctic Watershed: Toward a Predictive Understanding of Snow Spatial Variability”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences , vol. 130, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JG008604.
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  • Berns-Herrboldt, Erin C., et al. “Dynamic Soil Columns Simulate Arctic Redox Biogeochemistry and Carbon Release During Changes in Water Saturation”. Scientific Reports, vol. 15, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-83556-4.
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  • Torn, Margaret S., et al. “Large Emissions of CO2 and CH4 Due to Active-Layer Warming in Arctic Tundra”. Nature Communications, vol. 16, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54990-9.
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  • Orndahl, Kathleen M., et al. “Next Generation Arctic Vegetation Maps: Aboveground Plant Biomass and Woody Dominance Mapped at 30 M Resolution across the Tundra Biome”. Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 323, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2025.114717.
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  • Hantson, Wouter, et al. “Scaling Arctic Landscape and Permafrost Features Improves Active Layer Depth Modeling”. Environmental Research Ecology, vol. 4 , 2025, https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-664X/ad9f6c.
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  • Lathrop, Emma, et al. “Shrubs Strongly Influence Snow Properties in Two Subarctic Watersheds”. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2263.
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  • Freitas, Nancy L., et al. “Substantial and Overlooked Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Deep Arctic Lake Sediment”. Nature Geoscience, vol. 18, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01614-y.
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  • Gallois, Elise, et al. “Tundra Vegetation Community, Not Microclimate, Controls Asynchrony of above and Belowground Phenology”. Global Change Biology, vol. 31, no. 4, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70153.
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2024

  • Briones, Valeria, et al. “A Model Parameter Sensitivity Approach to Understand Soil Thermal and Hydrological Linkages and Their Influence on Ecosystem Carbon Dynamics”. Environmental Research Letters , vol. 19, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad50ed .
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  • Wilcox, Evan J., et al. “Bridging Gaps in Permafrost-Shrub Understanding”. PLOS Climate, vol. 3, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000360.
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  • Tao, Jing, et al. “Evaluating the Impact of Peat Soils and Snow Schemes on Simulated Active Layer Thickness at Pan-Arctic Permafrost Sites”. Environmental Research Letters, vol. 19, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad38ce.
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  • Li, Y, et al. “Genomic Insights into Redox-Driven Microbial Processes for Carbon Decomposition in Thawing Arctic Soils and Permafrost”. MSphere, vol. 9, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00259-24.
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  • Del Vecchio, Joanmarie, et al. “Hillslope-Channel Transitions and the Role of Water Tracks in a Changing Permafrost Landscape”. Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, vol. 128, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007156.
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  • Huang, Xiang, et al. “How Does Humidity Data Impact the Land Surface Modeling of Hydrothermal Regimes at a Permafrost Site in Utqiaġvik, Alaska?”. Science of The Total Environment, vol. 912, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168697.
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  • Fiolleau, Sylvain, et al. “Insights on Seasonal Solifluction Processes in Warm Permafrost Arctic Landscape Using a Dense Monitoring Approach across Adjacent Hillslopes”. Environmental Research Letters, vol. 19, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad28dc.
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  • Huo, X, et al. “Integrating State Data Assimilation and Innovative Model Parameterization Reduces Simulated Carbon Uptake in the Arctic and Boreal Region”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences , vol. 129, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JG008004 .
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  • Liu, Yanlan, et al. “Large Divergence of Projected High Latitude Vegetation Composition and Productivity Due To Functional Trait Uncertainty”. Earth’s Future , vol. 12, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF004563.
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  • Wang, Chen, et al. “Local-Scale Heterogeneity of Soil Thermal Dynamics and Controlling Factors in a Discontinuous Permafrost Region”. Environmental Research Letters, vol. 19, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad27bb .
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  • Crumley, Ryan, et al. “Snow Distribution Patterns Revisited: A Physics-Based and Machine Learning Hybrid Approach to Snow Distribution Mapping in the Sub-Arctic”. Water Resources Research, vol. 60, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR036180.
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  • Berner, Logan T. “The Arctic Plant Aboveground Biomass Synthesis Dataset”. Scientific Data, vol. 11, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03139-w.
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  • Renner, Caleb, et al. “The Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiment Arctic Rainfall Simulator: A Tool to Understand the Effects of Changing Rainfall Patterns in the Arctic”. Hydrology Research, vol. 55, 2024, https://doi.org/10.2166/nh.2023.146.
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  • Abolt, Charles J., et al. “Topography Controls Variability in Circumpolar Permafrost Thaw Pond Expansion”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface , vol. 129, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JF007675.
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2023

  • Yuan, Fengming, et al. “An Ultrahigh-Resolution E3SM Land Model Simulation Framework and Its First Application to the Seward Peninsula in Alaska”. Journal of Computational Science, vol. 73, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocs.2023.102145.
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  • Boike, Julia, et al. “Arctic Permafrost”. Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment, Elsevier, 2023, pp. 410-8, https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-822974-3.00141-5.
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  • Rowland, Joel. “Drainage Network Response to Arctic Warming”. Nature Communications, vol. 14, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40796-8.
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  • Painter, Scott L., et al. “Drying of Tundra Landscapes Will Limit Subsidence-Induced Acceleration of Permafrost Thaw”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 120, no. 8, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2212171120.
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  • Conroy, Nathan A., et al. “Environmental Controls on Observed Spatial Variability of Soil Pore Water Geochemistry in Small Headwater Catchments Underlain With Permafrost”. The Cryosphere, vol. 17, no. 17, 2023, https://doi.org/ttps://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-3987-2023.
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  • Uhlemann, Sebastian, et al. “Estimating Permafrost Distribution Using Co-Located Temperature and Electrical Resistivity Measurements”. Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 50, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103987.
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  • Thaler, Evan A., et al. “Estimating Snow Cover from High-Resolution Satellite Imagery by Thresholding Blue Wavelengths”. Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 285, 2023, p. 113403, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113403.
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  • Thaler, Evan A., et al. “High-Resolution Maps of Near-Surface Permafrost for Three Watersheds on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska Derived From Machine Learning”. Earth and Space Science, vol. 10, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EA003015.
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  • Weber, Sören E., and Colleen M. Iversen. “How Deep Should We Go to Understand Roots at the Top of the World?”. New Phytologist, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19220.
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  • Zhang, Lijie, et al. “Inhibition of Methylmercury and Methane Formation by Nitrous Oxide in Arctic Tundra Soil Microcosms”. Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 57, no. 14, 2023, pp. 5655-6, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c09457.
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  • Yang, Dedi, et al. “Integrating Very-High-Resolution UAS Data and Airborne Imaging Spectroscopy to Map the Fractional Composition of Arctic Plant Functional Types in Western Alaska”. Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 286, 2023, p. 113430, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113430.
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  • Shirley, Ian A, et al. “Machine Learning Models Inaccurately Predict Current and Future High-Latitude C Balances”. Environmental Research Letters, vol. 18, no. 1, 2023, p. 014026, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acacb2.
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  • Miraglio, Thomas, et al. “Mapping Canopy Traits over Québec Using Airborne and Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy”. Scientific Reports, vol. 13, no. 1, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44384-0.
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  • Schore, Aiden I. G., et al. “Nitrogen Fixing Shrubs Advance the Pace of Tall-Shrub Expansion in Low-Arctic Tundra”. Communications Earth & Environment, vol. 4, 2023, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01098-5.
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  • Chang, Kuang‐Yu, et al. “Observational Constraints Reduce Model Spread But Not Uncertainty in Global Wetland Methane Emission Estimates”. Global Change Biology, vol. 29, no. 15, 2023, pp. 4298-12, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16755.
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  • Del Vecchio, Joanmarie, et al. “Patterns and Rates of Soil Movement and Shallow Failures across Several Small Watersheds on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska”. Earth Surface Dynamics, vol. 11, no. 2, 2023, pp. 227-45, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-11-227-2023.
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  • Yang, Dedi, et al. “PiCAM: A Raspberry Pi-Based Open-Source, Low-Power Camera System for Monitoring Plant Phenology in Arctic Environments”. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 14, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14231.
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  • Mevenkamp, Hannah, et al. “Reducing Uncertainty of High-Latitude Ecosystem Models through Identification of Key Parameters”. Environmental Research Letters, vol. 18, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ace637.
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  • Tang, Jinyun, and William J. Riley. “Revising the Dynamic Energy Budget Theory With a New Reserve Mobilization Rule and Three Example Applications to Bacterial Growth”. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, vol. 178, 2023, p. 108954, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.108954.
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  • Wielandt, Stijn, et al. “TDD LoRa and Delta Encoding in Low-Power Networks of Environmental Sensor Arrays for Temperature and Deformation Monitoring”. Journal of Signal Processing Systems, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11265-023-01834-2.
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  • Santos, Fernanda, et al. “The Eco-Evolutionary Role of Fire in Shaping Terrestrial Ecosystems”. Functional Ecology, vol. 37, no. 8, 2023, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14387.
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2022

  • Liu, Yanlan, et al. “Dispersal and Fire Limit Arctic Shrub Expansion”. Nature Communications, vol. 13, no. 1, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31597-6.
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  • Crystal-Ornelas, Robert, et al. “Enabling FAIR Data in Earth and Environmental Science With Community-Centric (meta)data Reporting Formats”. Scientific Data, vol. 9, no. 1, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01606-w.
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  • Dann, Julian, et al. “Factors Controlling a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Derived Root-Zone Soil Moisture Product over The Seward Peninsula of Alaska”. Remote Sensing, vol. 14, no. 19, 2022, p. 4927, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14194927.
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  • Taş, Neslihan. “Metagenomes from Arctic Soil Microbial Communities from the Barrow Environmental Observatory, Utqiaġvik, AK, USA”. Microbiology Resource Announcements, vol. 11, no. 8, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00528-22.
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  • Shirley, Ian A., et al. “Near‐Surface Hydrology and Soil Properties Drive Heterogeneity in Permafrost Distribution, Vegetation Dynamics, and Carbon Cycling in a Sub‐Arctic Watershed”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, vol. 127, no. 9, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jg006864.
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  • Brunetti, Carlotta, et al. “Probabilistic Estimation of Depth-Resolved Profiles of Soil Thermal Diffusivity from Temperature Time Series”. Earth Surface Dynamics, vol. 10, no. 4, 2022, pp. 687-04, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-10-687-2022.
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  • Yang, Dedi, et al. “Remote Sensing from Unoccupied Aerial Systems: Opportunities to Enhance Arctic Plant Ecology in a Changing Climate”. Journal of Ecology, vol. 110, no. 12, 2022, pp. 2812-35, https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13976.
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  • Nelson, Peter R., et al. “Remote Sensing of Tundra Ecosystems Using High Spectral Resolution Reflectance: Opportunities and Challenges”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, vol. 127, no. 2, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021jg006697.
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  • Sulman, Benjamin N., et al. “Simulated Hydrological Dynamics and Coupled Iron Redox Cycling Impact Methane Production in an Arctic Soil”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, vol. 127, no. 10, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021jg006662.
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  • Virkkala, Anna-Maria, et al. “The ABCflux Database: Arctic–boreal CO2 Flux Observations and Ancillary Information Aggregated to Monthly Time Steps across Terrestrial Ecosystems”. Earth System Science Data, vol. 14, no. 1, 2022, pp. 179-08, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-179-2022.
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  • Thoman, Richard L., et al. “The Arctic”. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 103, no. 8, 2022, pp. S257-S306, https://doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-22-0082.1.
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  • Jafarov, Elchin E., et al. “The Importance of freeze–thaw Cycles for Lateral Tracer Transport in Ice-Wedge Polygons”. The Cryosphere, vol. 16, no. 3, 2022, pp. 851-62, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-851-2022.
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  • Frost, GV, et al. “Tundra Greenness”. NOAA Arctic Report Card 2022, 2022, https://doi.org/10.25923/g8w3-6v31.
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  • Abbott, Benjamin W., et al. “We Must Stop Fossil Fuel Emissions to Protect Permafrost Ecosystems”. Frontiers in Environmental Science, vol. 10, 2022, https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.889428.
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  • Mekonnen, Zelalem A, et al. “Wildfire Exacerbates High-Latitude Soil Carbon Losses from Climate Warming”. Environmental Research Letters, vol. 17, no. 9, 2022, p. 094037, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac8be6.
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2021

  • Hollingsworth, Teresa N., et al. “Does Fire Always Accelerate Shrub Expansion in Arctic Tundra? Examining a Novel Grass-Dominated Successional Trajectory on the Seward Peninsula”. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, vol. 53, no. 1, 2021, pp. 93-109, https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2021.1899562.
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2020

  • Abolt, Charles J., et al. “Feedbacks Between Surface Deformation and Permafrost Degradation in Ice Wedge Polygons, Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, vol. 125, no. 3, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jf005349.
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  • Collins, A. D., et al. “UAS LIDAR MAPPING OF AN ARCTIC TUNDRA WATERSHED: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES”. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, vol. XLIV-M-2-2020, 2020, pp. 1-8, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xliv-m-2-2020-1-2020.
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