Martha is a research and service climatologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She has been with the Alaska Climate Research Center, a unit of the Geophysical Institute since 2002. At the center, she is responsible for compiling and disseminating climatological data and information and her monthly weather summaries can be found in Weatherwise magazine. Her research interests are in applied climate issues and climate change and variability in Alaska. Most recently, she is lead author on a book that was published in 2007, The Climate of Alaska.
Martha received her B.S. in Meteorology from North Carolina State University, her M.S. in Agricultural Meteorology from the University of Nebraska, and her Ph.D. in Climatology/Soil Science from the University of Minnesota. Her doctoral work involved a snow and wind climatology to model blowing snow and the assessment of living snow fences to mitigate blowing snow events and improve transportation.
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contact: martha@climate.gi.alaska.edu
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