Kelsey E Nyland
Biographic Data
| ID | 1349097 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelsey E Nyland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelsey E |
| FAMILY NAME | Nyland |
| SIGNATURE | NYLAND K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9292-4504 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Snow, ice and permafrost landscapes as ‘frozen commons’
Cryosphere has a global role as a biogeophysical phenomenon. It affects the livelihoods of people inhabiting permafrost areas and is affected by human activity within and outside of the cryosphere’s geographical span. ‘Frozen commons’ (FCs) are cryosphere resources and landscapes, defined by snow, ice, and permafrost, that are experienced, used, protected and managed by groups of people together. This paper highlights collaboration between herder…
Monitoring ‘frozen commons’ with Modis in Google Earth Engine
Indigenous-Engaged Mapathon for Informal Road Research in Southern Siberia
Permafrost Food Storage Monitoring and Vulnerability Assessment in Utqiaġvik, Alaska
Traditional Iñupiaq sigḷuaq are cellars excavated into permafrost for storage of large quantities of game, fish, and other foodstuffs harvested for subsistence. Permafrost provides both a cultural and regulatory ecosystem service to Arctic peoples. A cellar thermal monitoring program in Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska, documented catastrophic flooding, collapses, and other issues in these cellars related to warming climatic conditions, commun…
Food Storage in Permafrost and Seasonally Frozen Ground in Chukotka and Alaska Communities
Food cellars, otherwise referred to as ice or meat cellars, (lednik in Russian, k’aetyran in Chukchi, siġļuaq in Iñupiaq, and siqlugaq in Yupik) are a natural form of refrigeration in permafrost or seasonally frozen ground used to preserve, age, and ferment foods harvested for subsistence, including marine mammals, birds, fish, and plants. Indigenous peoples throughout the Arctic have constructed cellars in frozen ground for millennia. This paper…
Long-term Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (Calm) program observations in Northern Alaskan tundra
The Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (CALM) network is an ongoing international effort to collect and disseminate standardized measurements of active-layer dynamics to monitor the response of near-surface permafrost parameters to climate change. This work presents a distillation of 25 years (1995–2019) of observations from three north–south transects of CALM sites in tundra environments of Alaska. Transects examined in this work bisect tundra …
Cool, Calm, collected
The Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (CALM) program is the primary global-change monitoring program concerned with the seasonally frozen active layer above permafrost. The active layer has been designated by the Global Climate Observing System and the Global Terrestrial Observing Network as an ‘Essential Climate Variable’. CALM was launched in 1991 on a volunteer basis in cooperation with the International Tundra Experiment. CALM observatories…
Cosmogenic 10 Be and 36 Cl geochronology of cryoplanation terraces in the Alaskan Yukon-Tanana Upland
Cryoplanation terraces are prominent but enigmatic landforms found in present and past periglacial environments. Geomorphologists have debated for more than a century over processes involved in the formation of these elevated, step-like, bedrock features. Presented here are the first numerical surface exposure ages and scarp retreat rates from cryoplanation terraces in the Yukon-Tanana Upland (YTU) in Alaska, part of unglaciated eastern Beringia,…
Permafrost degradation in the Western Russian Arctic
The Global Climate Observing System and Global Terrestrial Observing Network have identified permafrost as an ‘Essential Climate Variable,’ for which ground temperature and active layer dynamics are key variables. This work presents long-term climate, and permafrost monitoring data at seven sites representative of diverse climatic and environmental conditions in the western Russian Arctic. The region of interest is experiencing some of the highes…
Climatic- and anthropogenic-induced land cover change around Norilsk, Russia
Increasing atmospheric temperatures over the last 30 years has prompted land cover change in sensitive Arctic environments and exacerbated change in large urban-industrial centers on permafrost. Norilsk, Russia, the largest city built on permafrost north of the Arctic Circle, has a long history of development and industrial activity providing an opportunity to evaluate the climatic- and anthropogenic-induced land cover change. Land cover changes …
Traditional Iñupiat Ice Cellars (SIĠḷUAQ) in Barrow, Alaska
Ice cellars are a natural form of refrigeration constructed within permafrost. They are traditionally employed by indigenous Arctic peoples to store harvested wildlife. Recent reports from Alaska indicate that ice cellars are "failing" through mechanisms that include flooding and collapse, which are often attributed to climate change. In cooperation with local stakeholders, we instrumented five cellars to record internal air temperature in Barrow…
Permafrost hydrology in changing climatic conditions
Role of changing climatic conditions on permafrost degradation and hydrology was investigated in the transition zone between the tundra and forest ecotones at the boundary of continuous and discontinuous permafrost of the lower Yenisei River. Three watersheds of various sizes were chosen to represent the characteristics of the regional landscape conditions. Samples of river flow, precipitation, snow cover, and permafrost ground ice were collected…
Traditional Iñupiat Ice Cellars (SIĠḷUAQ) in Barrow, Alaska
Ice cellars are a natural form of refrigeration constructed within permafrost. They are traditionally employed by indigenous Arctic peoples to store harvested wildlife. Recent reports from Alaska indicate that ice cellars are "failing" through mechanisms that include flooding and collapse, which are often attributed to climate change. In cooperation with local stakeholders, we instrumented five cellars to record internal air temperature in Barrow…
Permafrost hydrology in changing climatic conditions
Role of changing climatic conditions on permafrost degradation and hydrology was investigated in the transition zone between the tundra and forest ecotones at the boundary of continuous and discontinuous permafrost of the lower Yenisei River. Three watersheds of various sizes were chosen to represent the characteristics of the regional landscape conditions. Samples of river flow, precipitation, snow cover, and permafrost ground ice were collected…
Climatic- and anthropogenic-induced land cover change around Norilsk, Russia
Increasing atmospheric temperatures over the last 30 years has prompted land cover change in sensitive Arctic environments and exacerbated change in large urban-industrial centers on permafrost. Norilsk, Russia, the largest city built on permafrost north of the Arctic Circle, has a long history of development and industrial activity providing an opportunity to evaluate the climatic- and anthropogenic-induced land cover change. Land cover changes …
Traditional Iñupiat Ice Cellars (SIĠḷUAQ) in Barrow, Alaska
Ice cellars are a natural form of refrigeration constructed within permafrost. They are traditionally employed by indigenous Arctic peoples to store harvested wildlife. Recent reports from Alaska indicate that ice cellars are "failing" through mechanisms that include flooding and collapse, which are often attributed to climate change. In cooperation with local stakeholders, we instrumented five cellars to record internal air temperature in Barrow…
Cosmogenic 10 Be and 36 Cl geochronology of cryoplanation terraces in the Alaskan Yukon-Tanana Upland
Cryoplanation terraces are prominent but enigmatic landforms found in present and past periglacial environments. Geomorphologists have debated for more than a century over processes involved in the formation of these elevated, step-like, bedrock features. Presented here are the first numerical surface exposure ages and scarp retreat rates from cryoplanation terraces in the Yukon-Tanana Upland (YTU) in Alaska, part of unglaciated eastern Beringia,…
Permafrost degradation in the Western Russian Arctic
The Global Climate Observing System and Global Terrestrial Observing Network have identified permafrost as an ‘Essential Climate Variable,’ for which ground temperature and active layer dynamics are key variables. This work presents long-term climate, and permafrost monitoring data at seven sites representative of diverse climatic and environmental conditions in the western Russian Arctic. The region of interest is experiencing some of the highes…
Long-term Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (Calm) program observations in Northern Alaskan tundra
The Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (CALM) network is an ongoing international effort to collect and disseminate standardized measurements of active-layer dynamics to monitor the response of near-surface permafrost parameters to climate change. This work presents a distillation of 25 years (1995–2019) of observations from three north–south transects of CALM sites in tundra environments of Alaska. Transects examined in this work bisect tundra …
Cool, Calm, collected
The Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (CALM) program is the primary global-change monitoring program concerned with the seasonally frozen active layer above permafrost. The active layer has been designated by the Global Climate Observing System and the Global Terrestrial Observing Network as an ‘Essential Climate Variable’. CALM was launched in 1991 on a volunteer basis in cooperation with the International Tundra Experiment. CALM observatories…
Food Storage in Permafrost and Seasonally Frozen Ground in Chukotka and Alaska Communities
Food cellars, otherwise referred to as ice or meat cellars, (lednik in Russian, k’aetyran in Chukchi, siġļuaq in Iñupiaq, and siqlugaq in Yupik) are a natural form of refrigeration in permafrost or seasonally frozen ground used to preserve, age, and ferment foods harvested for subsistence, including marine mammals, birds, fish, and plants. Indigenous peoples throughout the Arctic have constructed cellars in frozen ground for millennia. This paper…
Permafrost Food Storage Monitoring and Vulnerability Assessment in Utqiaġvik, Alaska
Traditional Iñupiaq sigḷuaq are cellars excavated into permafrost for storage of large quantities of game, fish, and other foodstuffs harvested for subsistence. Permafrost provides both a cultural and regulatory ecosystem service to Arctic peoples. A cellar thermal monitoring program in Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska, documented catastrophic flooding, collapses, and other issues in these cellars related to warming climatic conditions, commun…
Snow, ice and permafrost landscapes as ‘frozen commons’
Cryosphere has a global role as a biogeophysical phenomenon. It affects the livelihoods of people inhabiting permafrost areas and is affected by human activity within and outside of the cryosphere’s geographical span. ‘Frozen commons’ (FCs) are cryosphere resources and landscapes, defined by snow, ice, and permafrost, that are experienced, used, protected and managed by groups of people together. This paper highlights collaboration between herder…
Monitoring ‘frozen commons’ with Modis in Google Earth Engine
Indigenous-Engaged Mapathon for Informal Road Research in Southern Siberia
Climate change and permafrost (10 works) · Environmental Science (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Geology (9 works) · Oceanography (9 works) · Permafrost (9 works) · Physical geography (8 works) · Cryospheric studies and observations (7 works) · Arctic (6 works) · Climate change (5 works)