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Why should we be concerned with what happens in the Arctic? NSIDC researcher Twila Moon answered this question and more on why changes in the Arctic matter—not just to those living in the Arctic, but to the world at large.
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As the Arctic warms faster than the rest of the globe, permafrost, land ice and sea ice are disappearing at unprecedented rates.
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NSIDC researcher Kevin Schaefer leads the Remotely Sensed Active Layer Thickness (ReSALT) project to develop a way to monitor the active layer in permafrost remotely, using a combination of satellite, aircraft, and ground-based data, as part of the NASA’s Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE).