Report documents landscape changes at Prudhoe Bay
December 8, 2014
The ÐÓ°Épro Geobotany Center has published a summary of landscape and permafrost changes
at the Prudhoe Bay oil field.
"Forty-six years after the discovery of oil at Prudhoe Bay, we are still learning
about the ecological consequences of large-scale infrastructure expansion and the
impacts of climate change in ice-rich permafrost environments," wrote lead editor
Donald "Skip" Walker in the introduction. Professor Walker directs the geobotany center
at UAF's Institute of Arctic Biology.
The summary is available online at .