Vladimir Romanovsky
	Telephone (primary): (907) 474-7459 Telephone (secondary): Fax: (907) 474-7290 E-mail1 (primary): ffver@uaf.edu E-mail2 (secondary): Web URL: http://www.gi.alaska.edu/snowice/Permafrost-lab/index.html Address: Geophysical Institute University of Alaska Fairbanks PO Box 757320 Fairbanks, AK 99775 United States

Study Areas

Datasets

Publications (26)

Journal Articles:

Osterkamp, T.E. and V.E. Romanovsky. 1999. Evidence for warming and thawing of discontinuous permafrost in Alaska. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 10:17-37.

Romanovsky, V.E. and T.E. Osterkamp. 2000. Effects of unfrozen water on heat and mass transport processes in the active layer and permafrost. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 11:219-239.

Serreze, M.C., J.E. Walsh, F.S. Chapin III, T. Osterkamp, M. Dyurgerov, V. Romanovsky, W. Oechel, F. Morison, T. Zhang and R.G. Barry. 2000 Observational evidence of recent change in the northern high-latitude environment. Climatic Change 46:159-207.

Hinzman, L.D., K. Yoshikawa, M. Fukuda, V.E. Romanovsky, K. Petrone and W. Bolton. 2001. Wildfire in the subarctic boreal forests, Ecosystem impacts and response to a warming climate. T(hoku Geophysical Journal 36:230-232.

Romanovsky, V. E. and Osterkamp, T. E. 2001. Permafrost Monitoring System in Alaska: Structure and Results (in Russian), Earth Cryosphere, Vol. V, No. 4, 59-68.

Romanovsky, V. E., Osterkamp, T. E., Sazonova, T. S., Shender, N. I. and V. T. Balobaev. 2001. Permafrost Temperature Dynamics Along the East Siberian Transect and an Alaskan Transect, Tohoku Geophysical Journal (Sci. Rep. Tohoku Univ., Ser. 5), Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 224-229.

Zhuang, Q., V.E. Romanovsky and A.D. McGuire. 2001 Incorporation of a permafrost model into a large-scale ecosystem model: Evaluation of temporal and spatial scaling issues in simulating soil thermal dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research 106:33,649-33,670.

McGuire, A.D., C. Wirth, M. Apps, J. Beringer, J. Clein, H. Epstein, D.W. Kicklighter, J. Bhatti, F.S. Chapin III, B. deGroot, D. Efremov, W. Eugster, M. Fukuda, T. Gower, L. Hinzman, B. Huntley, G.J. Jia, E. Kasischke, J. Melillo, V. Romanovsky, A. Shvidenko, E. Vaganov, and D. Walker. 2002 Environmental variation, vegetation distribution, carbon dynamics, and water/energy exchange in high latitudes. Journal of Vegetation Science 13:301-314.

Yoshikawa, K., W.R. Bolton, V.E. Romanovsky, M. Fukuda and L.D. Hinzman. 2003. Impacts of wildfire on the permafrost in the boreal forests of Interior Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research 107:8148. doi:10.1029/2001JD000438.

Zhuang, Q., A.D. McGuire, J. Harden, K.P. O'Neill, V.E. Romanovsky and J. Yarie. 2003 Modeling soil thermal and carbon dynamics of a fire chronosequence in interior Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research 108(D1):8147. 10.1029/2001JD001244.

Zhuang, Q., A.D. McGuire, J.M. Melillo, J.S. Clein, R.J. Dargaville, D.W. Kicklighter, R.B. Myneni, J. Dong, V.E. Romanovsky, J. Harden, and J.E. Hobbie. 2003 Carbon cycling in extratropical terrestrial ecosystems of the Northern Hemisphere during the 20th Century: A modeling analysis of the influences of soil thermal dynamics. Tellus 55B:751-776.

Hinzman, L., N. Bettez, W.R. Bolton, F.S. Chapin III, M. Dyurgerov, C. Fastie, B. Griffith, R.D. Hollister, A. Hope, H.P. Huntington, A. Jensen, G.J. Jia, T. Jorgenson, D.L. Kane, D.R. Klein, G. Kofinas, A. Lynch, A. Lloyd, A.D. McGuire, F. Nelson, W.C. Oechel, T. Osterkamp, C. Racine, V. Romanovsky, R. Stone, D. Stow, M. Sturm, C.E. Tweedie, G. Vourlitis, M. Walker, D. Walker, P.J. Webber, J. Welker, K. Winker, and K. Yoshikawa. 2005 Evidence and implications of recent climate change in northern Alaska and other arctic regions. Climatic Change 72(3)251-298

Euskirchen, E.S., A.D. McGuire, D.W. Kicklighter, Q. Zhuang, J.S. Clein, R.J. Dargaville, D.G. Dye, J.S. Kimball, K.C. McDonald, J.M. Melillo, V.E. Romanovsky, and N.V. Smith. 2006 Importance of recent shifts in soil thermal dynamics on growing season length, productivity, and carbon sequestration in terrestrial high-latitude ecosystems. Global Change Biology, 12,731-750.

Richter-Menge, J., J. Overland, A. Proshutinsky, V. Romanovsky, J.C. Gascard, M. Karcher, J. Maslanik, D. Perovich, A. Shiklomanov and D. Walker. 2006 The Poles - Arctic. In K.A. Shein (ed.), State of the Climate in 2005, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society,87, S46-S52.

Brown, J. and V.E. Romanovsky. 2008 Report from the International Permafrost Association: State of Permafrost in the First Decade of the 21st Century, Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 19(2):255-260. DOI: 10.1002/ppp.618.

Lawrence, D. M., A. G. Slater, V. E. Romanovsky, and D. J. Nicolsky. 2008 Sensitivity of a model projection of near-surface permafrost degradation to soil column depth and representation of soil organic matter, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 113, F02011, doi:10.1029/2007JF000883.

Schuur, E.A.G., J. Bockheim, J. Canadell, E. Euskirchen, C.B. Field, S.V Goryachkin, S. Hagemann, P. Kuhry, P. Lafleur, H. Lee, G. Mazhitova, F. E. Nelson, A. Rinke, V. Romanovsky, N. Shiklomanov, C. Tarnocai, S. Venevsky, J. G. Vogel, S.A. Zimov. 2008 Vulnerability of permafrost carbon to climate change: Implications for the global carbon cycle. BioScience 58(8): 701-714. doi:10.1641/B580807

Nicolsky, D. J., Romanovsky, V. E. and G. G. Panteleev. 2009 Estimation of soil thermal properties using in-situ temperature measurements in the active layer and permafrost, Cold Regions Science and Technology, 55, pp. 120-129, DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2008.03.003.

Yi, S., A.D. McGuire, J. Harden, E. Kasischke, K. Manies, L. Hinzman, A. Liljedahl, J. Randerson, H. Liu, V. Romanovsky, S. Marchenko, and Y Kim. 2009 Interactions between soil thermal and hydrological dynamics in the response of Alaska ecosystems to fire disturbance. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences 114, G02015, 20 pages, doi:10.1029/2008JG000841

Books:

Book Chapters:

Paetzold, R.F., K.M. Hinkel, F.E. Nelson, T.E. Osterkamp, C.L. Ping and V.E. Romanovsky. 2000. Temperature and thermal properties of Alaskan soils. Pages 223-245 in R. Lal, J.M. Kimble and B.A. Stewart, editors. Global climate change and cold regions ecosystems. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.

Romanovsky, V. E., and Osterkamp, T. E.. 2001. Permafrost: Changes and Impacts, in: R. Paepe and V. Melnikov (eds.), Permafrost Response on Economic Development, Environmental Security and Natural Resources, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 297-315.

Chapin, F.S., III, A.D. McGuire, R.W. Ruess, M.W. Walker, R. Boone, M. Edwards, B. Finney, L.D. Hinzman, J. B. Jones, G.P. Juday, E.S. Kasischke, K. Kielland, A.H. Lloyd, M.W. Oswood, C.-L. Ping, E. Rexstad, V. Romanovsky, J. Schimel, E. Sparrow, B. Sveinbjornsson, D.W. Valentine, K. Van Cleve, D.L. Verbyla, L.A. Viereck, R.A. Werner, T.L. Wurtz, and J. Yarie.. 2006. Summary and synthesis: Past and future changes in the Alaskan boreal forest. Pages 332-338 in F.S. Chapin, III, M. Oswood, K. Van Cleve, L.A. Viereck, and D.L. Verbyla (Eds.) Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest. Oxford University Press, New York.

Hinzman, L. D., L. A. Viereck, P. C. Adams, V. E. Romanovsky, and K. Yoshikawa. 2006. Climate and permafrost dynamics of the Alaskan boreal forest. Pages 39-61 in F. S. Chapin, III, M. W. Oswood, K. Van Cleve, L. A. Viereck, and D. L. Verbyla, editors. Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest. Oxford University Press, New York.

Conference Proceedings:

Romanovsky, V. E.. 2006. Thermal state of permafrost in Alaska during the last 20 years. In Proceedings of the International Conference: Earth Cryosphere Assessment: Theory, Applications and Prognosis of Alternations, Vol. 1, pp. 96-101.

Marchenko, S., V. Romanovsky, and G. Tipenko. 2008. Numerical Modeling of Spatial Permafrost Dynamics in Alaska, In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Permafrost, June 29-July 3, Fairbanks, Alaska, Vol. 2, pp. 1125-1130.

Report:

Romanovsky, V., N. Oberman, D. Drozdov, G. Malkova, A. Kholodov, and S. Marchenko. 2009. Permafrost, in: State of the Climate in 2008, BAMS: S91-S92.

Thesis and Dissertations: