NS21A:
Geophysical Characterization of Cold Regions Hydrology and Permafrost Dynamics I Posters

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Session ID#: 13215

Session Description:
Throughout the world, frozen features are changing, with significant impacts on the surrounding ecosystem, environment, and society. Surface and airborne geophysical methods are increasingly used to monitor changes because of the strong contrasts in geophyscial properties that exist between frozen and thawed soil, and between solid-ice features and liquid water. Geophysical methods offer insight into groundwater flow and surface-soil/groundwater exchange dynamics in permafrost regions, landscape-scale changes post-fire, and geotechnical challenges in cold-region environments. This session is open to ground or airborne geophysical studies that focus on objectives including the delineation and characterization of ground ice or permafrost soil, evaluating sub- and suprapermafrost flow, and the monitoring of freeze-thaw dynamics. The session will consider seismic, resistivity, ground-penetrating radar, gravity, magnetics, and other electromagnetic studies over a variety of spatial scales. We also encourage the submission of multidisciplinary projects that incorporate the impacts of frozen material change on cold-regions ecology and biochemistry.
Primary Convener:  Martin A Briggs, USGS Water Mission Area, Hydrologic Remote Sensing Branch, Storrs, United States
Conveners:  Andy Parsekian, University of Wyoming, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States, Baptiste Dafflon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Burke J Minsley, U.S. Geological Survey, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Denver, United States
Chairs:  Andy Parsekian, University of Wyoming, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States and Baptiste Dafflon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Andy Parsekian, University of Wyoming, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • C - Cryosphere
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0702 Permafrost [CRYOSPHERE]
0706 Active layer [CRYOSPHERE]
1823 Frozen ground [HYDROLOGY]
1829 Groundwater hydrology [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Detection of the Near-surface Freeze/thaw State through the Synergy Use of Microwave and Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing Data (140072)
Tianjie Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Beijing, China, Tongxi Hu, The Ohio State University, School of Environment and Natural Resources, Columbus, United States and Jiancheng Shi, RADI Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Estimation of permafrost active layer thickness based on MODIS land surface temperature and the ground data on Tibetan Plateau (146619)
Defu Zou1, Lin Zhao1, Yu Sheng2, Ji Chen2, Guojie Hu1, Tonghua Wu1, Jichun Wu2, Changwei Xie1, Xiaodong Wu1, Qiangqiang Pang1, Wu Wang1, Erji Du1, Wangping Li1, Guangyue Liu1, Jing Li2, Yanhui Qin1, Yongping Qiao1, Zhiwei Wang1, Jianzong Shi1 and Guodong Cheng2, (1)Cryosphere Research Station on Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (2)State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
Geophysical Investigation of a Thermokarst Lake Talik in Continuous Permafrost (162764)
Andrea Creighton1, Andy Parsekian2, Christopher D Arp3, Benjamin M Jones4, Esther Babcock4 and Allen C Bondurant3, (1)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Water and Environmental Research Center, Fairbanks, United States, (4)USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States
Talik comparisons below bedfast and floating ice thermokarst lakes using electromagnetic geophysics (165390)
Andy Parsekian1, Andrea Creighton2, Christopher D Arp3, Benjamin M Jones4 and Allen C Bondurant3, (1)University of Wyoming, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Water and Environmental Research Center, Fairbanks, United States, (4)USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States
Use of Airborne Electromagnetic Geophysical Survey to Map Discontinuous Permafrost in Goldstream Valley, Interior Alaska (200012)
Ronald P Daanen1,2, Abraham Emond2, Anna K Liljedahl3, Katey M Walter Anthony4, David L. Barnes4, Vladimir E Romanovsky5 and Gina Graham2,6, (1)Department of Natural Resources Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Water and Environmental Research Center, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Geological & Geophysical Surveys, Fairbanks, AK, United States
The Impact of Fire on Active Layer Thicknes (186733)
Kevin M Schaefer1, Andy Parsekian2, Susan Natali3, Sarah Ludwig4, Roger J Michaelides5, Howard A Zebker5 and Jingyi Chen6, (1)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Geology, Laramie, WY, United States, (3)Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Biology and Wildlife, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (5)Stanford University, Geophysics, Stanford, CA, United States, (6)The University of Texas at Austin, Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Austin, United States
Monitoring an Induced Permafrost Warming Experiment Using ERT, Temperature, and NMR in Fairbanks, Alaska (193868)
Craig Ulrich1, Jonathan B Ajo-Franklin2, Ian Ekblaw3, Anna M Wagner4, Stephanie Saari4, Thomas M Daley5 and Barry M Freifeld1, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), Fort Wainwright, AK, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Geophysics, Berkeley, CA, United States
Using passive fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing to estimate soil water content at a discontinuous permafrost site (195125)
Anna M Wagner1, Jonathan B Ajo-Franklin2, Arthur Gelvin3, Stephanie Saari3, Ian Ekblaw4, Craig Ulrich5, Shan Dou6, Stephanie R. James7, Eileen Rose Martin8, Barry M Freifeld5, Kevin Bjella3 and Thomas M Daley2, (1)Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), Fort Wainwright, AK, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Geophysics, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Alaska, Fort Wainwright, AK, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (8)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Seismic Monitoring of Permafrost During Controlled Thaw: An Active-Source Experiment Using a Surface Orbital Vibrator and Fiber-Optic DAS Arrays (197170)
Shan Dou1, Todd Wood2, Jonathan B Ajo-Franklin1, Barry M Freifeld1, Arthur Gelvin3, Alejandro Morales4, Stephanie Saari3, Ian Ekblaw2, Anna M Wagner5, Thomas M Daley6, Michelle Robertson7, Eileen Rose Martin8, Craig Ulrich1 and Kevin Bjella9, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Alaska, Fort Wainwright, AK, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (5)Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), Fort Wainwright, AK, United States, (6)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Geophysics, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, (8)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (9)U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Alaska, Fairbanks, United States
Ambient Vehicular Noise recorded on a 2D Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing Array :Applications to Permafrost Thaw Detection and Imaging (197505)
Jonathan B Ajo-Franklin1, Anna M Wagner2, Shan Dou3, Eileen Rose Martin4, Ian Ekblaw5, Craig Ulrich3, Stephanie R. James6, Barry M Freifeld3 and Thomas M Daley1, (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)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
Insights into seasonal active layer dynamics by monitoring relative velocity changes using ambient seismic noise (164339)
Stephanie R. James1,2, Hunter Anne Knox3, Christopher J. Cole4, Robert E Abbott3 and Elizabeth Screaton1, (1)Univ of FL-Geological Sciences, Gainesville, FL, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Geophysics & Atmospheric Sciences, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, (4)Bureau of Land Management, Denver, CO, United States

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