M. Torre Jorgenson

M. Torre Jorgenson is owner Alaska Ecoscience, a small business in Fairbanks, Alaska, dedicated to research on Alaska’s changing landscapes. He also is affiliate faculty with Departments of Biology and Wildlife, Geology and Geophysics, and Civil Engineering, and is a past president of the U.S Permafrost Association. Previously, he was a Senior Scientist with ABR, Inc. for 24 years. He has worked on ecology and geomorphology studies throughout Alaska for over thirty years, focusing on vegetation-soil-permafrost interactions and ecological impacts of human activities. A primary focus has been ecological land classification and terrain mapping, coastal studies, ecological restoration, and soil carbon/permafrost dynamics throughout Alaska. He was a steering committee member for the Arctic Coastal Dynamics project, is the US lead for the Circumboreal Vegetation Mapping project, and served on the US National Research Council committee for assessing remote sensing of permafrost. He has co-authored 326 reports and publications. Recent projects include characterizing and mapping permafrost in northern Alaska, mapping permafrost and soil carbon in the Yukon River Basin, quantifying changes in hydrology and soil carbon after permafrost thaw in central Alaska, assessing effects of climate change on permafrost and landscapes on military lands, assessing effects of glacial thermokarst in northern Alaska, modeling changes in habitats from climate warming in northwest Alaska, and monitoring long-term ecological changes on the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta.