Using Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing to Monitor Large Scale Permafrost Transitions: Preliminary Results from a Controlled Thaw Experiment
Jonathan B Ajo-Franklin1, Anna M Wagner2, Shan Dou3, Kevin Bjella4, Thomas M Daley1, Barry M Freifeld3, Craig Ulrich3, Arthur Gelvin5, Alejandro Morales6, Stephanie R. James7, Stephanie Saari8, Ian Ekblaw9, Todd Wood9, Michelle Robertson10 and Eileen Rose Martin11, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Geophysics, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), Fort Wainwright, AK, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Alaska, Fairbanks, United States, (5)Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Alaska, Fort Wainwright, AK, United States, (6)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (7)University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (8)U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (9)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (10)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, (11)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States