Resources
Manual for Roads and Airfields Constructed on Permafrost
Billy Connor of the University of Alaska Fairbanks has published a manual for construction on permafrost he co-authored with Douglas J. Goering, Mikhail Kanevskiy, and Erin Trochim of UAF and Kevin L. Bjella of USACE CRERL and Robert McHattie of GZR Engineering, for the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Safety (AKDOT&PF). The manual is titled "ROADS AND AIRFIELDS CONSTRUCTED ON PERMAFROST: A Synthesis of Practice" and is available through Scholarworks.
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
Jones, B.M., M.Z. Kanevskiy, B. Connor, J. Peirce, B. Tracey Sr., K. Curtis, F.E. Urban, S. Wesen, Y. Shur, and C.V. Maio, 2025: Climate change and infrastructure development drive ice-rich permafrost thaw in Point Lay (Kali), Alaska, Environmental Research: Ecology, 4(3), https://doi.org/10.1088/2752-664X/adf1ac
Gulfam-E-Jannart, S., L. El Bitar, B.S. Baghirzade, U. Arora, N. Sinha, S. Dev, M. Kanevskiy, S. Aggarwal, M.J. Kirisits, and N.B. Saleh, 2025: Unlocking the past: Release of hazardous contaminants into water from thawing permafrost, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 495, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.139068
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
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
Jones, B.M., G. Grosse, L.M. Farquharson, P. Roy-Léveillée, A. Veremeeva, M.Z. Kanevskiy, B.V. Gaglioti, A.L. Breen, A.D. Parsekian, M. Ulrich, and K.M. Hinkel, 2022: Lake and drained lake basin systems in lowland permafrost regions, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 3:85-98, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-021-00238-9
Heijmans, M.M., R.Í. Magnússon, M.J. Lara, G.V. Frost, I.H. Myers-Smith, J. Van Huissteden, M.T. Jorgenson, A.N. Fedorov, H.E. Epstein, D.M. Lawrence, and J. Limpens, 2022: Tundra vegetation change and impacts on permafrost, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 3:68-84, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-021-00233-0
Bristol, E. M., C.T. Connolly, T.D. Lorenson, B.M. Richmond, A.G. Ilgen, R.C. Choens, D.L. Bull, M. Kanevskiy, G. Iwahana, B.M. Jones, and J.W. McClelland, 2021: Geochemistry of Coastal Permafrost and Erosion-Driven Organic Matter Fluxes to the Beaufort Sea Near Drew Point, Alaska, Frontiers in Earth Science, 8, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.598933
Bergstedt, H., B.M. Jones, D. Walker, J. Peirce, A. Bartsch, G. Pointner, M. Kanevskiy, M. Raynolds, and M. Buchhorn, 2023: The spatial and temporal influence of infrastructure and road dust on seasonal snowmelt, vegetation productivity, and early season surface water cover in the Prudhoe Bay Oilfield, Arctic Science, 9, https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2022-0013
Bergstedt, H., B.M. Jones, K. Hinkel, L. Farquharson, B.V. Gaglioti, A.D. Parsekian, M. Kanevskiy, N. Ohara, Noriaki A.L. Breen, R.C. Rangel, G. Grosse, and I. Nitze, 2021: Remote Sensing-Based Statistical Approach for Defining Drained Lake Basins in a Continuous Permafrost Region, North Slope of Alaska, Remote Sensing, 13, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13132539