Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Fairbanks, Alaska

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I am a Research Environmental Engineer at Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), Fairbanks, Alaska, USA. My research focuses on snow studies in the Arctic and I am also involved in environmental studies such as contaminant transport. I have studied snow sublimation, and I have also investigated the repeatability of snow patterns. My two main study sites are Barrow, Alaska, and the Imnavait Creek basin just north of the Brooks Range in Alaska.

I am originally from Sweden (Umeå) and I have been living in Fairbanks since 2002. I received my PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2007 which involved estimating groundwater travel times and identifying possible radionuclide seepage zones from underground nuclear detonations on Amchitka Island, Alaska. My MSc is in Engineering Physics from Luleå University of Technology, Sweden.