Given winter's rapid approach, the permafrost experimental plots are getting special attention. Preemptive vegetation surveying and soil core collections are propelling the Drown lab into a future greenhouse hibernation...and I am excited about it! Do you know what this means? Vegetation surveying, soil samples and an empty greenhouse? Sounds like a pilot study to me. Maybe come January, this smiling face will be found working alongside the IAB Research Greenhouse coordinator, Mark Wright.
Lauren, Maddie, and Pat have been working hard this summer doing DNA extractions from our permafrost tunnel soil cores. They took a moment during one of long incubation times to snap a few pictures from inside the bubble of the ancient DNA lab at the University of Alaska Museum of the North.