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.

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

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.

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.

Discussion is open for our new paper on CT methods to characterize ground ice in permafrost. #PACSLab

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

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

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.

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.

My latest article in Yale Environment 360 As Canadian River Shrivels, Northern Communities Call for a Highway e360.yale.edu/features/canad… via Yale Environment 360

Happy peat plateau day to those who celebrate. #Sahtu region. #permafrost

Fall weather pressing onto the Norman Range. #Sahtu region, #NWT

Morning commute to Tuyeta IPCA over the Ramparts of the Mackenzie. Unfortunately turned around by fog this am over the protected area. #KGF #Sahtu

Our new paper in ERL from the Fox Permafrost tunnel near Fairbanks AK.

A nice profile of Beth Shapiro (⁦⁦Beth Shapiro⁩). 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 Biosciences®⁩. Worth a read. ⁦ washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…