Benjamin Jones | Navigating the New Arctic Community Office

University of Alaska Fairbanks

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Transforming permafrost coastal systems: Advancing scientific discovery through international collaboration

Dr. Benjamin Jones and Prof.Hugues Lantuit

In the Alaskan Arctic, permafrost coastal systems are eroding at rates more than double those of the past. Rampant environmental change is putting new pressures on Arctic coastal dynamics, with the loss of landscapes, cultural heritage, infrastructure, and communities.

2019

Land

Water

Publications

Ward Jones, M.K., B.M. Jones, I. Nitze, M. Gessner, G. Grosse, A. Bartsch, and D. Bull, 2025: Annual and sub-seasonal dynamics of a rapidly eroding permafrost coastline along the Beaufort Sea in northern Alaska, Scientific Reports, 15, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-04753-3

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

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

Wolken, G.J., A.K. Liljedahl, M. Brubaker, J.A. Coe, G. Fiske, H. Hvidtfeldt Christiansen, M. Jacquemart, B.M. Jones, A. Kääb, F. Løvholt, S. Natali, A.C.A. Rudy, and D. Streletskiy, 2022: Glacier and Permafrost Hazards, NOAA Technical Report OAR ARC, 21-13, https://doi.org/10.25923/v40r-0956

Witharana, C., M.R. Udawalpola, A.K. Liljedahl, M.K. Ward Jones, B.M. Jones, A. Hasan. D. Joshi, and E. Manos, 2022: Automated Detection of Retrogressive Thaw Slumps in the High Arctic Using High-Resolution Satellite Imagery, Remote Sensing, 14(17), https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14174132

Liljedahl, A.K., M. Kanevskiy, T. Jorgenson, B.M. Jones, R. Daanen, H.E. Epstein, C.G. Griffin, K. Kent, and M.K. Ward Jones, 2021: An Object-Based Approach for Mapping Tundra Ice-Wedge Polygon Troughs from Very High Spatial Resolution Optical Satellite Imagery, Remote Sensing, 13(4), https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13040558

Udawalpola, M.R., C. Witharana, A. Hasan, A. Liljedahl, M. Ward Jones, and B. Jones, 2022: AUTOMATED RECOGNITION OF PERMAFROST DISTURBANCES USING HIGH-SPATIAL RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY AND DEEP LEARNING MODELS, The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLVI-M-2, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVI-M-2-2022-203-2022

Rettelbach, T., M. Langer, I. Nitze, B. Jones, V. Helm, J.-C. Freytag, and G. Grosse, 2021: A Quantitative Graph-Based Approach to Monitoring Ice-Wedge Trough Dynamics in Polygonal Permafrost Landscapes, Remote Sensing, 13(16), https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13163098

NItze, I., S.W. Cooley, C.R. Duguay, B.M. Jones, and G. Grosse, 2020: The catastrophic thermokarst lake drainage events of 2018 in northwestern Alaska: fast-forward into the future, The Cryosphere, 14(12), https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4279-2020

Karjalainen, O., M. Luoto, J. Aalto, B. Etzelmüller, G. Grosse, B.M. Jones, K.S. Lilleøren, and J. Hjort, 2020: High potential for loss of permafrost landforms in a changing climate, Environmental Research Letters, 15(10), https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abafd5

Jones, B.M., S.S. Tessier, T. Tessier, M. Brubaker, M. Brook, J. Schaeffer, M.K. Ward Jones, G. Grosse, I. Nitze, T. Rettelbach, S. Zavoico, J.A. Clark, and K.D. Tape, 2023: Integrating local environmental observations and remote sensing to better understand the life cycle of a thermokarst lake in Arctic Alaska, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 55(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2023.2195518

Stephani, Eva, J. Drage, D. Miller, B.M. Jones, and M. Kanevskiy, 2020: Taliks, cryopegs, and permafrost dynamics related to channel migration, Colville River Delta, Alaska, Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 31(2): 239-254, https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.2046

Thomas, M. A., A. Mota, B.M. Jones, Benjamin, R.C. Choens, J.M. Frederick, and D.L. Bull, 2020: Geometric and Material Variability Influences Stress States Relevant to Coastal Permafrost Bluff Failure, Frontiers Science, 8, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00143.

Liew, M, M. Xiao, B.M. Jones, L.M. Farquharson, and V.E. Romanovsky, 2020: Prevention and control measures for coastal erosion in northern high-latitude communities: a systematic review based on Alaskan case studies, Environmental Research Letters, 15(9), https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab9387

Liew, M., M. Xiao, L. Farquharson, D. Nicolsky, A. Jensen, V. Romanovsky, J. Peirce, L. Alessa, C. McComb, X. Zhang, and B. Jones, 2022: Understanding Effects of Permafrost Degradation and Coastal Erosion on Civil Infrastructure in Arctic Coastal Villages: A Community Survey and Knowledge Co-Production, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 10(3), https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10030422.

Lantz, T.C., N.D. Moffat., B.M. Jones, Q.T Chen, and E. Craig., 2020: Mapping Exposure to Flooding in Three Coastal Communities on the North Slope of Alaska Using Airborne LiDAR, Cosatal Management, 48(2):96-117, https://doi.org/10.1080/08920753.2020.1732798.

Jones, B.M., L.M. Farquharson, C.A. Baughman, R.M. Buzard, C.D. Arp, G. Grosse, D.L. Bull, F. Guenther, F. Urban, J.L. Kasper, J.M. Frederick, M. Thomas, C. Jones, A. Mota, S. Dallimore, C. Tweedie, C. Maio, D.H. Mann, B. Richmond, A. Gibbs, M. Xiao, T. Sachs, G. Iwahana, M. Kanevskiy, and V.E. Romanovsky, 2018: A decade of high spatiotemporal satellite image observations highlight complexities associated with coastal permafrost bluff erosion in the Arctic. Environmental Research Letters.

Farquharson, L.M., D.H. Mann, D.K. Swanson, B.M Jones, R.M. Buzard, and J. Jordan, 2018: Temporal and spatial variability in coastline response to declining sea-ice in northwest Alaska. Marine Geology, vol 404, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2018.07.007.