Blogs about: Tundra Fires

Featured Blog

Tundra burning in Alaska: Rare events or harbinger of climate change? Join the Webinar!

The 2007 Uluksian Fire (photo courtesy of P. Higuera). Dr. Philip Higuera (assistant professor at the College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho) will be joining us for a webinar on May 24, 201… more →

Fire Science Highlights Blog

Soot darkening Greenland ice, worsening melt | Redux

weisfe7dboyd wrote 5 months ago: Soot darkening Greenland ice, worsening melt East Greenland Ice Sheets by christine zeninoLicense (a … more →

Tags: greenland ice sheet, warmest summer, Surface, ice loss

Tundra burning in Alaska: Rare events or harbinger of climate change? Join the Webinar!

akfireconsortium wrote 1 year ago: The 2007 Uluksian Fire (photo courtesy of P. Higuera). Dr. Philip Higuera (assistant professor at th … more →

Tags: Tundra Fires, Events, Webinars, fire regimes, climate change, Events 2, jfsp, Webinar

Local Alaskan Scientist Featured in New York Times: "As Permafrost Thaws, Scientists Study the Risks"

akfireconsortium wrote 1 year ago: Methane Hot Spots, South Central Alaska, January 2010 (Photo by Marie-Laure Geai) Local scientist Ka … more →

Tags: new publications, Tundra Fires, climate change, Carbon

6,000 Years of Tundra Fires in Noatak National Preserve

akfireconsortium wrote 1 year ago: One of the 37 tundra fires that burned in Noatak National Preserve in the summer of 2010. The Kalukt … more →

Tags: new publications, Research Results, Tundra Fires, climate change, fire history, fire regimes

"Recovery After World's Largest Tundra Fire Raises Questions"

akfireconsortium wrote 1 year ago: From the Alaska Science Forum by Ned Rozell: Four summers ago, Syndonia Bret-Harte stood outside at … more →

Tags: Research Results, Tundra Fires, fire regimes, Carbon

2011 Alaska Fire Science Workshop

akfireconsortium wrote 1 year ago: The 2011 Alaska Fire Science Workshop will be October 6-7 at the  BLM – Alaska Fire Service of … more →

Tags: Events, Conferences, fire history, fire regimes, Events 2, models, Consortium

A New Climate Change Feedback

Robert Kyriakides wrote 1 year ago: One of the problems of assessing the pace of climate change is measuring feedbacks. Feedbacks are, i … more →

Tags: climate change, Carbon Emissions, Global Warming, carbon dioxide, water vapour and climate change, climate change feedbacks, feedback climate change Arctic, tundra climate feedback, michelle mack

Global warming: Tundra fires are huge carbon sources — 5 comments

Bob Berwyn wrote 1 year ago: Tundra fires can release huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. PHOTO COURTESY BLM. Another glo … more →

Tags: Environment, Global Warming, forest fires, Climate and Weather, Summit County News, climate change, Wildfires, tundra carbon storage

New results show "how quickly one tundra fire can reverse a half-century worth of soil-stored carbon"

akfireconsortium wrote 1 year ago: Satellite image of Anaktuvuk River Fire from Sept. 25, 2007 (NASA image courtesy the MODIS Rapid Res … more →

Tags: new publications, Research Results, Tundra Fires, climate change, Carbon

Large tundra fires linked to global warming — 1 comment

Bob Berwyn wrote 2 years ago: Large tundra fires may become more common as the Earth gets warmer. Average seasonal temperatures ma … more →

Tags: Environment, Global Warming, Summit County Colorado, Summit County News, Alaska, Wildfires, Tundra, University of Idaho, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Burning Questions

rodellwalker wrote 3 years ago: Scientists Seek Information from the Anaktuvuk River Fire By Emily Stone Journalists visited the sit … more →

Tags: Alaska, National Science Foundation, Meteorology & Climate, Biology, Tundra, Arctic LTER, Gus Shaver, 2007 Anaktuvuk River Fire


Related Tags
All →

Follow this tag via RSS