duane froese
@tephrafan
professor | northern research | permafrost | Quat Geo | working with northern communities | PACS Lab | Rett Syndrome | he/him
The new website for the Permafrost ArChives Science Lab is up. PACS is a multi-user facility and the first ice core style lab dedicated to permafrost science and engineering, inlud. dedicated facilities for CT and core scanning, ancient eDNA clean labs.. sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/pa…


W rapping up the NSERC Create Permafrost graduate training in Inuvik. Co-taught with colleagues Steve Kokelj, Suzanne Tank and Oliver Sonnentag. Fantastic experience— tremendous group. A few photos.




Spending this week in the Klondike with my colleagues from Yukon Palaeontology prepping our #ICOP2024 permafrost field excursion later this week. Today. Lots of ground ice, Middle Pleistocene horses and reconnecting with old friends.
Wrapping up two days of community meetings in Fort Good Hope today. Discussing permafrost, community hazards and supporting development of the community plan. Lots of issues increasing for the community as climate change impacts grow. Beautiful spring day. Great hospitality.




A nice profile of Beth Shapiro (@bonesandbugs). We’ve worked together for 20+ years. Always creative and one of the biggest critics of de-extinction is redefining what it might mean for conservation genetics @colossal. Worth a read. washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
Our new paper in ERL from the Fox Permafrost tunnel near Fairbanks AK.
New stable isotope paper 4 Fairbanks, AK #permafrost. Meteoric water line + cores yield insight into climate over past ~40 k years. Warmed ~9C in past 18 k years, almost a third of that since the 1970s. @IOPenvironment W/ @tephrafan @mildlybasic Ali Monteath @PhysicsNews Link:
Morning commute to Tuyeta IPCA over the Ramparts of the Mackenzie. Unfortunately turned around by fog this am over the protected area. #KGF #Sahtu

Fall weather pressing onto the Norman Range. #Sahtu region, #NWT
Happy peat plateau day to those who celebrate. #Sahtu region. #permafrost
My latest article in Yale Environment 360 As Canadian River Shrivels, Northern Communities Call for a Highway e360.yale.edu/features/canad… via @YaleE360
First day of Permafrost field school in Inuvik. Visiting the Navy Road burn where permafrost response has been monitored for 50+ years with Steve Kokelj. Followed by an afternoon tour of permafrost issues in Inuvik with former mayor Peter Clarkson #NSERC, #CREATE #PermafrostNet.




More airplane photography. We passed the Ramparts of the Mackenzie near Fort Good Hope. Rapids well exposed before the narrowing. Also nice view of the Tuyeta protected area— the lake rich landscape formed by the impounding of L Mackenzie at the Ramparts on right side. #Sahtu
I am an expert at poor quality landscape photography from commercial flights. A few shots from Yellowknife (very smoky), Dehcho (Mackenzie) south of Tulit’a looking toward the Redstone (sharp bend joining Dehcho), and view of Tulit’a down the Great Bear River in the #Sahtu



Discussion is open for our new paper on CT methods to characterize ground ice in permafrost. #PACSLab
Discussion open for comments on @EgUsphere: Ground ice estimation in permafrost samples using industrial Computed Tomography doi.org/10.5194/egusph…
A Latest Pleistocene turbic cryosol, probably about 16,000 years old. Tephra (probably the 80ka Sheep Creek K) and a very large horse. With Yukon palaeontology folks.



View downriver on the Deh Cho at Norman Wells yesterday afternoon.

Arctic defence means building Mackenzie Valley Highway, Sahtu says - cabinradio.ca/178273/news/tr… via @cabinradio