{"id":2780,"date":"2025-03-09T03:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2025-03-14T07:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T05:05:02","slug":"for-arctic-scientists-climate-change-is-impossible-to-ignore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/for-arctic-scientists-climate-change-is-impossible-to-ignore\/","title":{"rendered":"For Arctic scientists, climate change is impossible to ignore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Researchers at a remote station in Canada\u2019s Northwest Territories have contended with wildfire and melting permafrost.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/030725-Permafrost-Resized-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"(Image credit: NPS Climate Change Response \/ CC BY 2.0 DEED)\" class=\"wp-image-2781\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/030725-Permafrost-Resized-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/030725-Permafrost-Resized-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/030725-Permafrost-Resized-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/030725-Permafrost-Resized.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Image credit: NPS Climate Change Response \/ CC BY 2.0 DEED)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>For scientists at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottycreek.com\/\">Scotty Creek Research Station<\/a> in Canada\u2019s Northwest Territories, climate change is not just a research topic. It\u2019s a threat they\u2019ve experienced firsthand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the fall of 2022, a late-season wildfire tore through the remote research station \u2013 destroying buildings and equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dominico: \u201cIt was pretty devastating. It was a huge setback. It\u2019s consumed the past two years of my life, just planning, rebuilding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s Mason Dominico of Wilfrid Laurier University, who works at Scotty Creek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He says 10 years before the fire, the station had to relocate for another climate-related reason: melting permafrost, which is the subject of his <a href=\"https:\/\/scholars.wlu.ca\/etd\/2655\/\">own research<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Scotty Creek Watershed is an area historically dominated by forested plateaus that rise from low-lying wetlands on frozen ground called permafrost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But temperatures there are rising faster than the global average. And the <a href=\"https:\/\/hess.copernicus.org\/articles\/23\/2015\/2019\/\">permafrost is thawing<\/a>, which causes the plateaus to shrink and collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dominico: \u201cI\u2019ve been there for six years, and every year you kind of see the landscape change and, \u2018Oh \u2026 this is thawing deeper. Oh, this plateau is completely gone now.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So for Dominico and others stationed at Scotty Creek, the signs of climate change are impossible to ignore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at a remote station in Canada\u2019s Northwest Territories have contended with wildfire and melting permafrost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2782,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions\/2782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcticwatch.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}