Department
Mining and Geological Engineering
Organization
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Email
mmdarrow@alaska.edu
Phone
907-474-7303
Address
PO Box 755800
Fairbanks , Alaska 99775United StatesBioDr. Margaret Darrow is a geological engineer currently working as an associate professor in Mining & Geological Engineering at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and a registered Civil (Geotechnical) Engineer in the State of Alaska. Her experience includes five years in geotechnical engineering at the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, where she conducted geotechnical investigations of highways and material sites. Her education background includes degrees in geology, geological engineering, and Arctic engineering. Her research centers on frozen ground engineering, with projects investigating unfrozen water content in frozen soils, deep-seated landslides in permafrost, thermal modeling of infrastructure over permafrost, and the performance of geotechnical instrumentation in frozen ground.

Science Specialties

Geological and Frozen Ground Engineering

Current Research

Behavior of unfrozen water in frozen soils, Frost heaving, Soil physics, Slope stability in frozen ground, Thermal analysis of engineered structures over frozen ground

Websites

http://ine.uaf.edu/people/margaret-darrow/
http://fdlalaska.org