PACS Lab Publications

PACS Lab Methods Development 

Pumple, J., Monteath, A., Harvey, J., Roustaei, M., Alvarez, A., Buchanan, C., & Froese, D. (2024). Non-destructive multi-sensor core logging allows rapid imaging, measurement of bulk density and estimation of ice content in permafrost cores. The Cryosphere, 18 (1), 489-503

Roustaei, M., Pumple, J., Hendry, M. T., Harvey, J., & Froese, D. (2024). Effect of freeze-thaw cycles on the macrostructure and failure mechanisms of fiber-reinforced clay using industrial computed tomography. Canadian Geotechnical Journal. https://doi.org/10.1139/cgj-2023-0136

Roustaei, M., Pumple, J., Harvey, J., & Froese, D. (2022). Estimating ice and unfrozen water in permafrost samples using industrial computed tomography scanning. GeoCalgary, 2022. Canadian Geotechnical Society Proceedings, Calgary, AB., 6p.

Roustaei, M., Pumple, J., Hendry, M., Palat, A., & Froese, D. (2022). Freeze-thaw impacts on macropore structure of fiber-reinforced clay by industrial computed tomography scanning. GeoCalgary, 2022. Canadian Geotechnical Society Proceedings, Calgary, AB., 7p.

Murchie, T. J., Kuch, M., Duggan, A. T., Ledger, M. L., Roche, K., Klunk, J., Karpinski, E., Hackenberger, D., Sadoway, T., MacPhee, R., Froese, D., & Poinar, H. (2021). Optimizing extraction and targeted capture of ancient environmental DNA for reconstructing past environments using the PalaeoChip Arctic-1.0 bait-set. Quaternary Research, 99, 305–328.

Saidi-Mehrabad, A., Neuberger, P., Cavaco, M., Froese, D., & Lanoil, B. (2020). Optimization of subsampling, decontamination, and DNA extraction of difficult peat and silt permafrost samples. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 14295.

Papers using PACS Lab archive or instrumentation

Holland, K. M., Porter, T. J., Criscitiello, A. S., & Froese, D. G. (2023). Ion geochemistry of a coastal ice wedge in northwestern Canada: Contributions from marine aerosols and implications for ice‐wedge paleoclimate interpretations. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 34(2), 180–193.

Monteath, A. J., Kuzmina, S., Mahony, M., Calmels, F., Porter, T., Mathewes, R., Sanborn, P., Zazula, G., Shapiro, B., Murchie, T. J., Poinar, H. N., Sadoway, T., Hall, E., Hewitson, S., & Froese, D. (2023). Relict permafrost preserves megafauna, insects, pollen, soils and pore-ice isotopes of the mammoth steppe and its collapse in central Yukon. Quaternary Science Reviews, 299(107878), 107878.

Murchie, T. J., Long, G. S., Lanoil, B. D., Froese, D., & Poinar, H. N. (2023). Permafrost microbial communities follow shifts in vegetation, soils, and megafauna extinctions in Late Pleistocene NW North America. Environmental DNA, 5(6), 1759–1779.

Young, J. M., Alvarez, A., van der Sluijs, J., Kokelj, S. V., Rudy, A., McPhee, A., Stoker, B. J., Margold, M., & Froese, D. (2022). Recent intensification (2004–2020) of permafrost mass‐wasting in the central Mackenzie valley foothills is a legacy of past forest fire disturbances. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(24). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022gl100559

Stoker, B. J., Margold, M., Gosse, J. C., Hidy, A. J., Monteath, A., Young, J. M., Gandy, N., Gregoire, L. J., Norris, S. L., & Froese, D. G. (2022). The collapse of the Cordilleran–Laurentide ice saddle and early opening of the Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories, Canada, constrained by 10Be exposure. The Cryosphere. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-4865-2022

Schirrmeister, L., Fedorov, A. N., Froese, D., Iwahana, G., van Huissteden, K., & Veremeeva, A. (2022). Editorial: Yedoma permafrost landscapes as past archives, present and future change areas. Frontiers of Earth Science, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.929873

Murchie, T. J., Karpinski, E., Eaton, K., Duggan, A. T., Baleka, S., Zazula, G., MacPhee, R. D. E., Froese, D., & Poinar, H. N. (2022). Pleistocene mitogenomes reconstructed from the environmental DNA of permafrost sediments. Current Biology: CB. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.12.023

Monteath, A. J., Gaglioti, B. V., Edwards, M. E., & Froese, D. (2021). Late Pleistocene shrub expansion preceded megafauna turnover and extinctions in eastern Beringia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(52). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2107977118

Vershinina, A. O., Heintzman, P. D., Froese, D. G., Zazula, G., Cassatt-Johnstone, M., Dalén, L., Der Sarkissian, C., Dunn, S. G., Ermini, L., Gamba, C., Groves, P., Kapp, J. D., Mann, D. H., Seguin-Orlando, A., Southon, J., Stiller, M., Wooller, M. J., Baryshnikov, G., Gimranov, D., … Shapiro, B. (2021). Ancient horse genomes reveal the timing and extent of dispersals across the Bering Land Bridge. Molecular Ecology, 30(23), 6144–6161.

Strauss, J., Laboor, S., Schirrmeister, L., Fedorov, A. N., Fortier, D., Froese, D., Fuchs, M., Günther, F., Grigoriev, M., Harden, J., Hugelius, G., Jongejans, L. L., Kanevskiy, M., Kholodov, A., Kunitsky, V., Kraev, G., Lozhkin, A., Rivkina, E., Shur, Y., … Grosse, G. (2021). Circum-Arctic Map of the Yedoma Permafrost Domain. Frontiers of Earth Science, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.758360

MacDonald, E. N., Tank, S. E., Kokelj, S. V., Froese, D. G., & Hutchins, R. H. S. (2021). Permafrost-derived dissolved organic matter composition varies across permafrost end-members in the western Canadian Arctic. Environmental Research Letters: ERL [Web Site], 16(2), 024036.

Murchie, T. J., Kuch, M., Duggan, A. T., Ledger, M. L., Roche, K., Klunk, J., Karpinski, E., Hackenberger, D., Sadoway, T., MacPhee, R., Froese, D., & Poinar, H. (2021). Optimizing extraction and targeted capture of ancient environmental DNA for reconstructing past environments using the PalaeoChip Arctic-1.0 bait-set. Quaternary Research, 99, 305–328.

Bandara, S., Froese, D., Porter, T. J., & Calmels, F. (2020). Holocene pore‐ice δ 18 O and δ 2 H records from drained thermokarst lake basins in the Old Crow Flats, Yukon, Canada. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 31(4), 497–508.

Saidi-Mehrabad, A., Neuberger, P., Cavaco, M., Froese, D., & Lanoil, B. (2020). Optimization of subsampling, decontamination, and DNA extraction of difficult peat and silt permafrost samples. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 14295.

Saidi-Mehrabad, A., Neuberger, P., Hajihosseini, M., Froese, D., & Lanoil, B. D. (2020). Permafrost Microbial Community Structure Changes Across the Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary. Frontiers of Environmental Science, 8, 133.

Holland, K. M., Porter, T. J., Froese, D. G., Kokelj, S. V., & Buchanan, C. A. (2020). Ice‐Wedge Evidence of Holocene Winter Warming in the Canadian Arctic. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(12), 211.

Martinez De La Torre, H. A., Reyes, A. V., Zazula, G. D., Froese, D. G., Jensen, B. J. L., & Southon, J. R. (2019). Permafrost-preserved wood and bone: Radiocarbon blanks from Yukon and Alaska. Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section B, Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 455, 154–157.

Porter, T. J., Schoenemann, S. W., Davies, L. J., Steig, E. J., Bandara, S., & Froese, D. G. (2019). Recent summer warming in northwestern Canada exceeds the Holocene thermal maximum. Nature Communications, 10(1), 1631.

Bandara, S., Froese, D. G., St. Louis, V. L., Cooke, C. A., & Calmels, F. (2019). Postdepositional Mercury Mobility in a Permafrost Peatland from Central Yukon, Canada. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 3(5), 770–778.