Research interests
Member of the Alaska Earthquake Center field team, maintaining equipment and stations across the State of Alaska
Specializes in non-seismic (weather, permafrost temperature, infrasound) data and instrumentation collected on the Alaska Geophysical Network
Permafrost organic carbon quality and biolability enthusiast
Recent publications
Beel, C.R.*, Heslop, J.K.*, Orwin, J.F. Pope, M.A., Schevers, A.J., Hung, J.K.Y., Lafrenière, M.J., and Lamoureux, S.F. “Emerging dominance of summer rainfall in driving High Arctic terrestrial-aquatic connectivity.” Nat. Commun., 2021, doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-21759-3
*Co-first authorship
Heslop, J.K., Hung, J.K.Y., Tong, H., Simpson, M.J., Chapman, F.M., Roulet, N., Lafrenière, M.J., and Lamoureux, S.F. “Varying pond dissolved organic matter characteristics yield similar CO2 flux potentials in a disturbed High Arctic landscape.” Environ. Res. Lett., 2020, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/abc913.
Heslop, J.K., Walter Anthony, K.M. Winkel, M., Sepulveda-Jauregui, A., Martinez-Cruz, K., Bondurant, A., Grosse, G., and Liebner, S. “A synthesis of methane dynamics in thermokarst lake environments.” Earth-Science Reviews, 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103365.
Heslop, J.K., M. Winkel, K. M. Walter Anthony, R. G. M. Spencer, D. C. Podgorski, P. Zito, A. Kholodov, M. Zhang, and S. Liebner. “Increasing organic carbon biolability with depth in yedoma permafrost: ramifications for future climate change.” JGR Biogeosciences, 2019, doi: 10.1029/2018JG004712.