HEAL - Healy, NEON Terrestrial Field Site | Alaska
Channel: NEON Science
Date: 2020-08-11

Suggested citation for this video: National Ecological Observatory Network. August 4th, 2020. HEAL - Healy, NEON Terrestrial Field Site [Video file]. Courtesy: Battelle. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/1EezQVtHR1Q.

Healy (HEAL) is a terrestrial field site located 100 miles southwest of Fairbanks by Denali National Park and Preserve. This NEON field site covers a little more than 45.2 square kilometers and is part of the largest boreal forests biome on earth, covering 17 million square kilometers. It features a 26 foot tall flux tower with a customized boardwalk for dogsled crossing. It also features defined plots for vegetation, soil, bird, mammal and insect sampling and observations. Healy is experiencing widespread permafrost thawing, making it a valuable resource of information to understand how other permafrost systems in Alaska will experience and react to thawing in the future.