Studies of global warming featured in Alaska Newspapers article
by Kathleen McCoy |
Experimental studies of global warming by UAA professor Dr. Jeff Welker are featured
in a recent article published by Alaska Newspapers, Inc. This summer, the National
Science Foundation (NSF) sent reporter Dustin Solberg to shed light on the activities
taking place at the hub of global warming research during the 2007-2008 International
Polar Year (IPY): their research station on the Greenland ice sheet. Last year Welker
received a grant from the NSF for his Environment and Natural Resources Institute
(ENRI) research project associated with the IPY. The project is designed to quantify
how increases in shrubs have altered the abiotic environment, causing a fundamental
change in the functional attributes of these systems in arctic Alaska. To read the complete article, click here.