​Over the past week, the Tzortziou Group and collaborators from NRL and NASA have been collecting measurements aboard the R/V Ukpik to monitor the changing riverine fluxes and water quality in Alaska’s North Slope coastline - a region of high vulnerability to changes in the Arctic, characterized by increasing coastal erosion, permafrost thaw, rapid melting of snow and ice, and changing hydrological flow patterns...

On August 10th, the Tzortziou Bio-Optics group will be voyaging to Alaska’s North Slope for a 3-week field expedition in the coastal Arctic... ​