Study focuses on how permafrost thawing affects vegetation, carbon cycle
Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 02:10
in Earth & Climate
Neil Sturchio, professor and chair of the University of Delaware's Department of Geological Sciences, is exploring how the thawing of permafrost, a subsurface layer of soil that remains mostly frozen throughout the year, affects vegetation and the carbon cycle in the Toolik Lake area of the Alaska's North Slope.