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In August 2023, a group of postdoctoral researchers gathered in Santa Barbara, California. They came from different backgrounds and represented disparate regions, but they shared a common focus: our Nation’s aquatic ecosystems. Among them, Megan Behnke brought her expertise as a biogeochemist studying the flow of nutrients through Alaska’s cryosphere-influenced watersheds. Originally from Juneau, Behnke worked as a stream chemistry technician at the University of Alaska Southeast’s Alaska Coastal Rainforest Center in 2016. After receiving her PhD in Chemical Oceanography from Florida State University in 2022, Behnke returned as a postdoctoral researcher to continue her work tracking particulate organic carbon…
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Air temperatures are rising above freezing across Alaska’s national parks decades earlier than expected. This accelerates soil subsidence, increases landslide frequency, and threatens the activities and infrastructure of Alaska’s parks.