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Kenneth M. Hinkel is affiliated with Michigan Technological University in the United States, focusing on research primarily in the Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Oceanography, and Media Technology.

The scientist's research topics concentrate heavily on cryospheric studies and observations, climate change and permafrost, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, geology and paleoclimatology research, landslides and related hazards, geophysics and gravity measurements, and advanced image fusion techniques.

Kenneth M. Hinkel has contributed to various academic publications. Notable recent papers include:

  • Lake and drained lake basin systems in lowland permafrost regions, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Analysis of Sentinel-3 SAR altimetry waveform retracking algorithms for deriving temporally consistent water levels over ice-covered lakes, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Identifying historical and future potential lake drainage events on the western Arctic coastal plain of Alaska, 2020, Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
  • Geophysical Observations of Taliks Below Drained Lake Basins on the Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • Spatio-temporal Cokriging method for assimilating and downscaling multi-scale remote sensing data, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment

Frequent publication venues for Kenneth M. Hinkel include:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • The Cryosphere
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

Collaboration plays a significant role in their research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Benjamin Jones
  • A. Parsekian
  • Rodrigo Corrêa Rangel
  • Mikhail Kanevskiy
  • N. Ohara

Best Publications

  • The circumpolar active layer monitoring (calm) program: Research designs and initial results 1

    J. Brown;K. M. Hinkel;F. E. Nelson

  • The transient layer: implications for geocryology and climate‐change science

    Yuri Shur;Kenneth M. Hinkel;Frederick E. Nelson

  • Increase in the rate and uniformity of coastline erosion in Arctic Alaska

    Benjamin M. Jones;C.D. Arp;M.T. Jorgenson;Kenneth M. Hinkel

  • Non-conductive heat transfer associated with frozen soils

    Douglas L Kane;Kenneth M Hinkel;Douglas J Goering;Larry D Hinzman

  • Patterns of soil temperature and moisture in the active layer and upper permafrost at Barrow, Alaska: 1993 1999

    K.M. Hinkel;F. Paetzold;F.E. Nelson;J.G. Bockheim

  • The zero-curtain effect: Heat and mass transfer across an isothermal region in freezing soil

    Samuel I. Outcalt;Frederick E. Nelson;Kenneth M. Hinkel

  • Spatial Extent, Age, and Carbon Stocks in Drained Thaw Lake Basins on the Barrow Peninsula, Alaska

    Kenneth M. Hinkel;Wendy R. Eisner;James G. Bockheim;Frederick E. Nelson

  • Estimating active-layer thickness over a large region: Kuparuk River Basin, Alaska, U.S.A

    F.E. Nelson;N.I. Shiklomanov;G.R. Mueller;K.M. Hinkel

  • Spatial and temporal patterns of active layer thickness at Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring (CALM) sites in northern Alaska, 1995–2000

    K. M. Hinkel;F. E. Nelson

  • Morphometric and spatial analysis of thaw lakes and drained thaw lake basins in the western Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska

    K. M. Hinkel;R. C. Frohn;F. E. Nelson;W. R. Eisner

  • The urban heat island in winter at Barrow, Alaska

    Kenneth M. Hinkel;Frederick E. Nelson;Anna E. Klene;Julianne H. Bell

  • Detection of subsurface permafrost features with ground‐penetrating radar, Barrow, Alaska

    K. M. Hinkel;J. A. Doolittle;J. G. Bockheim;F. E. Nelson

  • The N-factor in Natural Landscapes: Variability of Air and Soil-Surface Temperatures, Kuparuk River Basin, Alaska, U.S.A.

    Anna E. Klene;Frederick E. Nelson;Nikolay I. Shiklomanov;Kenneth M. Hinkel

  • Methods to assess natural and anthropogenic thaw lake drainage on the western Arctic coastal plain of northern Alaska

    Kenneth M. Hinkel;Benjamin M. Jones;Wendy R. Eisner;Chris J. Cuomo

  • Satellite remote sensing classification of thaw lakes and drained thaw lake basins on the North Slope of Alaska

    Robert C. Frohn;Kenneth M. Hinkel;Wendy R. Eisner

  • Soil organic carbon storage and distribution in Arctic Tundra, Barrow, Alaska

    J. G. Bockheim;L. R. Everett;K. M. Hinkel;F. E. Nelson

  • Lake and drained lake basin systems in lowland permafrost regions

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  • Active‐layer thickness in north central Alaska: Systematic sampling, scale, and spatial autocorrelation

    F. E. Nelson;K. M. Hinkel;N. I. Shiklomanov;G. R. Mueller

  • Polygonal tundra geomorphological change in response to warming alters future CO2 and CH4 flux on the Barrow Peninsula.

    Mark J. Lara;A. David McGuire;Eugenie S. Euskirchen;Craig E. Tweedie

  • Large amounts of labile organic carbon in permafrost soils of northern Alaska

    Carsten W. Mueller;Janet Rethemeyer;Jenny Kao-Kniffin;Sebastian Löppmann;Sebastian Löppmann

  • Identification of heat‐transfer processes during soil cooling, freezing, and thaw in central alaska

    Kenneth M. Hinkel;Samuel I. Outcalt

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederick E. Nelson
Frederick E. Nelson University of Delaware
Hongxing Liu
Hongxing Liu University of Alabama
Benjamin M. Jones
Benjamin M. Jones University of Alaska Fairbanks
James G. Bockheim
James G. Bockheim University of Wisconsin–Madison
Christopher D. Arp
Christopher D. Arp University of Alaska Fairbanks
Bailang Yu
Bailang Yu East China Normal University
Guido Grosse
Guido Grosse Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
John D. Lenters
John D. Lenters University of Wisconsin–Madison
Vladimir E. Romanovsky
Vladimir E. Romanovsky University of Alaska Fairbanks
Carsten W. Mueller
Carsten W. Mueller University of Copenhagen

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