Virtual permafrost tunnel featured at visitors center event
September 2, 2016
A new virtual version of the permafrost tunnel in Fox, housed in a portable planetarium
complete with the tunnel’s characteristic smell and old bones, will be open at a free
community event on Saturday, Sept. 10.
The virtual tunnel will be part of a Permafrost Expo at the Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Expo visitors will be able to touch ice age bones, probe 30,000-year-old
ice using microscopes and real science tools, and talk to national experts about changing
permafrost in Alaska.
Look for the life-sized mammoth, Pingo Peat, outside the center.
The event was created by a University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute project
called Hot Times in Cold Places: Permafrost During Climate Change.
ADDITIONAL CONTACTS: Jessica Garron, jigarron@alaska.edu, 907-474-7598.
ON THE WEB: www.facebook.com/HotTimesinColdPlaces/
www.permafrosttunnel.org