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  3. Melissa Ward Jones

Melissa Ward Jones

Melissa Ward Jones
University of Alaska Fairbanks
mkwardjones@alaska.edu

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

Ward Jones, M.K., T. Schwoerer, G.M. Gannon, B.M. Jones, M.Z. Kanevskiy, I. Sutton, B. St. Pierre, C. St. Pierre, J. Russell, and D. Russell, 2022: Climate-driven expansion of northern agriculture must consider permafrost, Nature Climate Change, 12, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01436-z

Jones, M.W., et al., 2024: Socioecological dynamics of diverse global permafrost-agroecosystems under environmental change, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 56(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2024.2356067

Parlato, N.J., and M.W. Jones, 2025: The law of thaw: understanding subnational land use policies for permafrost-agroecosystems, Polar Record, 61(3), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247424000263

Jones, B.M., et al., 2025: Cryptic Ice Wedge Networks in Holocene Peat, Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska, Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 36(4):678-701, https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp.70004

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