Monday, June 28, 2010
Climate Change Scientists Turn Up the Heat in Alaska
From Oak Ridge National Laboratory
While ORNL researchers have conducted extensive studies on the impact of climate change in temperate regions like East Tennessee, less is known about the impact global warming could have on arctic regions.
“We’re beginning to take these lessons learned and start applying them to sensitive and globally important ecosystems, such as the arctic,” said Stan Wullschleger of the Environmental Sciences Division. “The arctic regions are important to the topic of global warming because of the large land area they occupy around the world and the layer of permanently frozen soil, known as permafrost.”
Wullschleger and a team of architects, engineers and biologists from ORNL and other national laboratories design, simulate using computers and then field test large-scale manipulative experiments that purposely warm a test area in order to evaluate ecosystem response to projected climate conditions.
Read the full article here.
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