Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Snowmelt on the Tundra

See our newest YouTube video! This is a series of photos taken from the same vantage point at our research site on the tundra outside of Barrow, Alaska. You can watch in about 2 minutes what took a few weeks to happen ...




2 comments:

cam said...

Does anything ever....grow there? I noticed the soil, I guess it's soil, after the melt. Later in the summer does this fill in with grass or anything?

Dr G said...

There's actually a lot of grassy, mossy type coverage ... it doesn't show well in these pics as it is kind of brown now, but in a few weeks this will green up quite a bit. There's also lots of small flowers that grow here too ... just too early right now to see them.