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Joel Eklof
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Washington Seattle
Joel Eklof (he/him) is a PhD Candidate in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Washington. Joel received a BS in physics from the University of Puget Sound and a MS in civil engineering from the University of Washington before starting his current PhD project focused on permafrost thaw and accompanying wetland carbon release in Alaska.
Professional Experience
University of Washington Seattle
Ph.D. Candidate
2018 - 2024
Education
University of Washington Seattle
Masters
2020
Honors & Awards
Voices for Science
Received April 2024
Joel Eklof (he/him) is a PhD Candidate in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Washington. Joel received a BS in physics from the University of Puget Sound and a MS in civil engineering from the University of Washin...
Joel Eklof (he/him) is a PhD Candidate in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Washington. Joel received a BS in physics from the University of Puget Sound and a MS in civil engineering from the University of Washington before starting his current PhD project focused on permafrost thaw and accompanying wetland carbon release in Alaska. Joel can generally be found probing permafrost or teaching science in Alaska, getting muddy on a bike, or playing “Match My Pitch” with his choir director wife.
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AGU Abstracts
Environmental Interactions Controlling Thermal Regimes and Permafrost Progression in Interior, Alaska
ADVANCES IN OBSERVING, QUANTIFYING, AND MODELING PERMAFROST, SNOW, AND VEGETATION DYNAMICS IN HIGH-LATITUDE OR HIGH-ELEVATION ENVIRONMENTS I ORAL
cryosphere | 11 december 2023
Joel Eklof, Jessica D. Lundquist, Mark P. Waldrop,...
Northern high latitudes are projected to get warmer and wetter, which is expected to accelerate rates of permafrost degradation. However, other enviro...
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Environmental Controls on Subsurface Temperature and Permafrost Thaw Progression at a Discontinuous Permafrost Site in Interior, AK
IMPACTS OF A CHANGING CLIMATE ON ALASKA'S PERMAFROST LANDSCAPES AND INFRASTRUCTURE II POSTER
global environmental change | 16 december 2022
Joel Eklof, Jessica D. Lundquist, Mark P. Waldrop,...
Northern high latitudes are projected to get warmer and wetter in the future which will affect rates of permafrost degradation by affecting environmen...
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The role of advective heat transfer in affecting permafrost thaw and methane emissions at a hillslope thermokarst bog
MONITORING THERMOKARST DEVELOPMENT AND TERRESTRIAL HYDROLOGY AND ECOSYSTEM RESPONSES OVER THE PAN-ARCTIC WITH OBSERVATIONS AND MODELS II POSTER
cryosphere | 17 december 2021
Jing Tao, Qing Zhu, William J. Riley, Gautam Bisht...
Recent Arctic amplification has warmed permafrost unprecedently, causing widespread thermokarst formation, especially over discontinuous and sporadic ...
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