31 Papers
370 Citations
K. Bjella is an academic researcher from Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Permafrost & Thermokarst. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 27 publications. Previous affiliations of K. Bjella include Engineer Research and Development Center.
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Papers
Impacts of permafrost degradation on infrastructure
TL;DR: In this article , the authors explore the extent and costs of observed and predicted infrastructure damage associated with permafrost degradation, and the methods available to mitigate such adverse consequences, including convection embankments, thermosyphons and piling foundations.
Representative Sampling for Energetic Compounds at Military Training Ranges
Thomas F. Jenkins,Alan D. Hewitt,Marianne E. Walsh,Thomas A. Ranney,Charles A. Ramsey,Clarence L. Grant,K. Bjella +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed practical sampling strategies to reliably estimate mean concentrations of residues from munitions found in surface soil at various types of live-fire training ranges at three military installations within North America.
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Dissolution of Composition B Detonation Residuals
TL;DR: Two dissolution models, a published steady-flow model and a drop-impingement model developed here, provide good agreement with the data using RDX parameters for time scaling and should bracket the flow regimes for dissolution of detonation residuals on soils, but they require additional data to validate them across the range of particle sizes and rainfall rates of interest.
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Recent degradation of interior Alaska permafrost mapped with ground surveys, geophysics, deep drilling, and repeat airborne lidar
Thomas A. Douglas,Christopher A. Hiemstra,Christopher A. Hiemstra,John E. Anderson,Robyn A. Barbato,K. Bjella,Elias J. Deeb,A. Gelvin,Patricia E. Nelsen,Stephen D. Newman,Stephanie P. Saari,Anna M. Wagner +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a study was conducted from 2013 to 2020 along four 400 to 500'm long transects near Fairbanks, Alaska, using LIDAR and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) to measure top-down and bottom-up permafrost thaw and map thermokarst development.
Representative sampling for energetic compounds at an antitank firing range
Thomas F. Jenkins,Thomas A. Ranney,Alan D. Hewitt,Marianne E. Walsh,K. Bjella +4 more
- 01 Apr 2004
TL;DR: In this article, field sampling experiments were conducted at the CFB-Valcartier Arnhem antitank rocket range to investigate various sampling schemes that would yield representative soil samples at firing points and impact areas of antitank ranges.
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