Borehole for permafrost temperature monitoring drilled at Longyearbyen school
A borehole for permafrost temperature monitoring was drilled at Longyearbyen school last week as part of the TSP-NORWAY project. A cold experience... See links below for more details:
http://www.unis.no/60_NEWS/6040_Archive_2008/n_08_03_03_tsp_drill/TSPdrillingnews03.03.2008.htm
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Longyearbyen school has been added to the permafrost outreach program of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. In this program, a network of schools built on permafrost in the Arctic report data to the rest of the network from shallow boreholes drilled closed to the schools.
"Select school" under http://www.uaf.edu/permafrost/ or go to http://research.iarc.uaf.edu/permafrost/longyear/longyear.html