Mark Torre Jorgenson

Mark Torre Jorgenson photo

Co-Principal Investigator

Alaska Ecoscience

jorgenson@alaska.net

Resources

Permafrost History and Vulnerability to Climate Change in Alaska

Permafrost History and Vulnerability to Climate Change in Alaska Alaska Institute for Climate & Energy (ALICE) Webinar, April 20, 2021

M. Torre Jorgenson, Alaska Ecoscience, Fairbanks, AK

Publications

Jorgenson, M.T., et al., 2025: Interacting Sea-Level Rise, Sea-Ice Loss, Storm Flooding, Erosion, and Permafrost Thaw Threaten Ecosystems, Wildlife, and Communities on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Earth's Future, 13(8), https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EF006015

Koch J.C., M.J. Bogard, D.E. Butman, K. Finaly, B. Ebel, J. James, S.E. Johnston, M.T. Jorgenson, N.J. Pastick, R.G.M. Spencer, R. Striegl, M. Walvoord, and K.P. Wickland, 2022: Heterogeneous Patterns of Aged Organic Carbon Export Driven by Hydrologic Flow Paths, Soil Texture, Fire, and Thaw in Discontinuous Permafrost Headwaters, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36(4), https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GB007242

Kanevskiy, M., Y. Shur, D.A. (Skip) Walker, D.A. T. Jorgenson, M.K. Raynolds, J.L. Peirce, B.M. Jones, M. Buchhorn, G. Matyshak, H. Bergstedt, A.L. Breen, B. Connor, R. Daanen, A.Liljedahl, V.E. Romanovsky, and E. Watson-Cook, 2022: The shifting mosaic of ice-wedge degradation and stabilization in response to infrastructure and climate change, Prudhoe Bay Oilfield, Alaska, USA, Arctic Science, 8, https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2021-0024

Kanevskiy, M., Y. Shur, N.H. Bigelow, K.L. Bjella, T.A. Douglas, D. Fortier, B.M. Jones, and M.T. Jorgenson, 2022: Yedoma Cryostratigraphy of Recently Excavated Sections of the CRREL Permafrost Tunnel Near Fairbanks, Alaska, Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.758800

Jorgenson, M.T., M.Z. Kanevskiy, J.C. Jorgenson, A. Liljedahl, Y. Shur, H. Epstein, K. Kent, C.G. Griffin, R. Daanen, M. Boldenow, K. Orndahl, C. Witharana, and B.M. Jones, 2022: Rapid transformation of tundra ecosystems from ice-wedge degradation, Global and Planetary Change, 216, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103921

Jorgenson, M.T., M. Kanevskiy, C. Roland, K. Hill, D. Schirokauer, S. Stehn, B. Schroeder, and Y. Shur, 2022: Repeated Permafrost Formation and Degradation in Boreal Peatland Ecosystems in Relation to Climate Extremes, Fire, Ecological Shifts, and a Geomorphic Legacy, Atmosphere, 13(8), https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13081170