PacTrans: River Ice Measurements for Transportation Safety in Rural Communities
AIDC project number:
PI(s):
Svetlana Stuefer
Funding:
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Start Date: Jul 1, 2019
End Date: Dec 31, 2020
Project Summary
This project is relevant to the cold areas of Federal Region 10 where transportation routes can occur on frozen surface of lakes and rivers. While they exist, these types of winter roads are often the only opportunity for rural Alaskan communities to connect to the state highway system and satisfy community supply needs. The goal of this project is to identify a set of river ice measurements that can be used by rural communities to monitor river ice conditions for safe winter travel.
