Bethel scientist returns home to study climate change

Jasmine Gil, originally from Bethel, is studying the effects of wildfires on permafrost with the Polaris Project, 50 miles north of the Yukon-Kuskokwim hub. (Photo by Katie Basile/KYUK)
What happens after fire scorches the tundra, and what follows when carbon that’s been locked away for millennia gets released?
Currently, a group of scientists is camping 50 miles north of Bethel are attempting to answer these questions.
For one scientist the research is personal because it means coming hom