The surface water storage change project is an interdisciplinary project. Projecting the next century’s lake and wetland surface water storage of the Yukon will help make statements about the future carbon dioxide and methane fluxes to the atmosphere, taiga-tundra shifts, regional surface energy balance, regional weather patterns, and habitat availability for migratory waterfowl. In this study I collaborate with:
- Masahito Ueyama of IARC who is looking at spatio-temporal upscaling of eddy covariance data and the relationship between ecosystem shift and surface water storage change,
- Katey Walter of INE who is looking at methane ebullition from thaw lakes and future methane flux,
- Ben Jones and Chris Arp of USGS in Anchorage who are looking at lake change with in their identified Alaska Lake Districts,
- David Atkinson of IARC, and Francois Gourand of Ecole Nationale de la Météorologie, Meteo-France, who have developed TopoClimate, a climate model based on topography which can be applied to the hindcasting and forecasting of the surface air temperature of the Yukon
- Amy Larsen of NPS in Fairbanks who is looking at Yukon Basin remote sensed imagery,
- Jennifer Roach of AKCFWRU, B/W, IAB who is looking at causes of drying and wetting of lakes in Yukon Flats, Tetlin, and Kaiyuh Flats.
