UND ARCTIC Lab

“When science connects us, science is unstoppable.”  This December, presenting members of the UND ARCTIC Lab team had the honor of attending the American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) 2025 conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, where we learned, connected, and shared the lab’s work with the wider scientific community.   AGU 2025 was an excellent way for UND […]

The UND Arctic Lab team is now at AGU! Of the 7 presenters accepted, today we feature Sheridan Parker who will be presenting her poster: The A-KBS Arctic Knowledge Based System: Science Gateway Integration for Exascale Arctic Data Processing and Geospatial Feature Prediction. A little background about Sheridan’s research journey:   Sheridan began her education with a BA from […]

The UND Arctic Lab is enthusiastic to announce that our new paper, “Multi-Horizon Active Layer Thickness Prediction across Circum-Arctic Permafrost Regions Using Geospatial Machine Learning,” has been accepted into the American Geophysical Union’s new Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation.   This prestigious AGU journal, the newest edition to the Journal of Geophysical […]

This week, the UND ARCTIC Lab is proud to highlight the work of Graduate Student Researcher Andrew Wilcox, whose background bridges the humanities and the sciences, both STEM and Non-STEM research, in a way that strengthens every project he touches.   Andrew first earned his bachelor’s degree in English at UND, where he also studied Arctic […]

This week, we’d like to spotlight an individual who has been deeply involved in the work of the UND ARCTIC Lab both in and out of the field: Stephen Miller: senior software engineer for digital twin applications in UND’s Computational Research Center.   A Grand Forks native, Stephen joined the United States Marine Corps in 2005, serving as a mechanic and being […]

Resource management is a critical element of any effective research operation, and the UND ARCTIC Research Lab is no exception. With a mission that involves cutting-edge equipment, distant field expeditions, and a large research team, it is vital to have a capable set of eyes keeping track of one of the most important research-related resources of all: fiscal stewardship. […]

Challenges with collecting fieldwork data in remote regions of Alaska vary considerably depending on the season.   Winter weather can descend below -50 degrees Fahrenheit, creating challenges with remote sensing equipment, vehicles, batteries, and the need to closely monitor core body temperature. Summer weather brings different but equally important considerations including bears, moose, insects in extraordinary numbers and of great […]

As the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2025 Annual Conference approaches its December 15th start date, the UND ARCTIC Lab will have a big presence at the four-day event, one of the most important geospatial research conferences in the world.   We have had 7 presenters accepted, including our own Research Engineer II Aymane Ahajjam who has been selected as a […]

Featured in the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (Impact Factor 8.6; Vol. 140, June 2025), a research paper by the UND ARCTIC Lab introduces a new technique for predicting the freeze-thaw states of Northern Alaska’s active layer of soil, that has consistently outperformed traditional methods.   In “Predicting Freeze-Thaw States in Alaska Permafrost […]

Over the past four years, the UND ARCTIC Research Lab has meaningfully advanced geospatial and computational innovation focused on the Global Arctic. We look forward to continuing to build on that research momentum as we approach 2026. In the coming months, we will share a wide range of content to showcase the UND ARCTIC Lab (and our […]