Flooding that closed Dalton Highway also caused widespread ground sinking

By Rod Boyce | Geophysical Institute on Oct 14, 2023   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

The massive 2015 flooding of the Sagavanirktok River in northern Alaska had immediate impacts, including closure of the Dalton Highway for several days, but it also contributed to longer-term ground subsidence in the permafrost-rich region. That’s the finding by assistant professor Simon Zwieback at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute in a study published […]