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As Arctic Warms, Scientists Watch Changes in Environment | Arctic Now

Published on September 11, 2017
As Arctic Warms, Scientists Watch Changes in Environment | Arctic Now
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By Kelsey Lindsey

TOOLIK LAKE, Alaska — As Alaska’s climate changes, almost every veteran researcher at Toolik Field Station, the Arctic research center just north of the Brooks Range, has a story about lightning.

Linda Deegan, a senior scientist at Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, was enjoying a beer by Toolik Lake when she saw her first strike. She remembers uttering an expletive when she saw it.

Deemed impossible in northern Alaska only 30 years ago, thunderstorms eventually appeared, likely due to rising temperatures. Then came fire. In 2007, a lightning strike sparked Alaska’s largest recorded tundra fire, which torched 400 square miles just 20 miles from Toolik. Read more …

Source: As the Arctic warms, scientists at this remote field station try to make sense of the changing environment | Arctic Now

Caption: MBL Senior Scientist Ed Rastetter, lead principal investigator for the NSF’s Arctic Long Term Ecological Research project, at Toolik Field Station in August. Credit: Kelsey Lindsey

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