UBCO researcher tracks the migration pace of large rivers in permafrost regions.
UBCO researcher tracks the migration pace of large rivers in permafrost regions.
A team of international researchers monitoring the impact of climate change on large rivers in Arctic Canada and Alaska determined that, as the region is sharply warming up, its rivers are not moving as scientists have expected.
Dr. Alessandro Ielpi, an Assistant Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, is a landscape scientist and lead author of a paper published this week in Nature Climate Change. The research, conducted with Dr. Mathieu Lapôtre at Stanford University, along with Dr. Alvise Finotello at the University of Padua in Italy, and Université Laval’s Dr. Pascale Roy-Léveillée, examines how atmospheric warming is affecting Arctic rivers flowing through permafrost terrain.
Their findings, says Dr. Ielpi, were a bit surprising.
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Image: Dr. Alessandro Ilepi, an Assistant Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, is lead author of a new paper examining how atmospheric warming is affecting Arctic rivers flowing through permafrost terrain. (Credit: Courtesy: Dr. Alessandro Ilepi)
