Treatment plots were created in 2005, with solar powered pumps taking water from the trench dug around the lowered plot and moving it to the raised plot. This creates three different water table levels that can tell scientists more about how water changes the way peat stores carbon.
Viewing Alpha, the rich fen, from what locals call “The Bluff”.
While driving along the Park’s highway to the Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest, keen eyed technicians may be able to spy Denali on particularly clear days. Denali Days always bring good luck.
Portable Infrared Gas Analyzers (IRGAs) are used to measure the concentration of CO2 at the Alaska Peatland Experiment. Since the program started in 2005, the ambient amount of CO2 in the air has gone from roughly 379 ppm to 425ppm! (data via Lan, X., Tans, P. and K.W. Thoning: Trends in globally-averaged CO2 determined from NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory measurements. Version 2025-05 https://doi.org/10.15138/9N0H-ZH07)
Luquillo LTER site brief, prepared for NSF decadal review 2019. Typo corrected (site established date) in 2025.
Morgan Wood and Abigail Borgmeier taking soil samples in the Dry Valleys.
Morgan Wood and Abigail Borgmeier taking soil samples in the Dry Valleys
The wormherders team out in the field!
