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Ken Tape
University of Alaska Fairbanks
PO Box 80425
Fairbanks, Alaska 99708
E-mail: fnkdt@uaf.edu

Ken Tape is a PhD candidate at the University of Alaska Fairbanks studying climate warming and consequent landscape changes in the Arctic. He primarily uses repeat photography to document expanding shrubs, migrating tree-line, shrinking glaciers, and deteriorating permafrost in the Arctic. Ken is also studying the changes occurring along margins and the implications of these shifts for the broader Arctic.

Ken has written for technical and popular journals, and is currently writing a book about climate change for the general public called "Climate Warming and the Changing Landscape of Northern Alaska: repeat photography of shrubs, trees, glaciers, and permafrost." The book will contain interviews from individuals involved in the initial photography (taken in the 1940's) used in his research.

Ken enjoys science that is readily interpretable, and the Arctic Visiting Speaker Program is a great opportunity to synthesize and share the remarkable photographic evidence documenting terrestrial changes in the Arctic. The repeated photographs used to assess change have been published widely, and Ken is excited to share the results with non-science people. Repeated photographs can be interpreted by anyone, thus removing the complicated layer of interpretation that is associated with most measurements of terrestrial change.

Representative lecture titles include:

• Climate warming and landscape change in northern Alaska: repeat photography of shrubs, trees, glaciers, and permafrost.