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The University
of Alaska EPSCoR
program is conducting an outreach effort in conjunction with it’s
research focus on permafrost and infrastructure. The outreach effort has been
termed the “Permafrost Health” program and consists of installing
permafrost temperature monitoring systems at several public schools across Alaska. The
installation would consist of a small borehole (approximately 2 inches in
diameter) that would be drilled near the school. The borehole is then lined
with plastic pipe and thermistor temperature sensors are installed at various
depths. We anticipate that the project will result in minimal disturbance at
the surface and the only remaining equipment will be the underground
temperature sensors and a small battery-operated data logger that will be
housed in a small enclosure at the surface.
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