Speaking: Ed Yarmak and Anna Wagner
The U.S. Permafrost Association (USPA) is pleased to announce the USPA Technical Training Webinar Series. The webinars are offered on Zoom. Each webinar is 1 hour long, including a 50-min lecture and 10-min Q&A. Certificate of Professional Development Hours (PDH) will be provided to participants who request it after each webinar. The webinars are free for USPA members and all students. For non-USPA members who are not students, the registration fee is $20 for each webinar.
Registration link: https://uspa.memberclicks.net/webinar4
Date and Time: Wednesday, March 27, 2024. 2:00 to 3:00pm ET (10:00 to 11:00am AKT)
Instructors: Ed Yarmak, P.E. (Arctic Foundations, Inc., Anchorage, AK); and Dr. Anna Wagner (Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), Fairbanks, AK)
Content of Webinar: Introduction to the use of two-phase thermosyphons to maintain or augment permafrost in a variety of applications. Operation and deployment history of various thermosyphon design milestones will be presented. Several configurations of thermosyphons will be discussed as well as good practices for design. Current research and projections for the future will be presented.
Brief Introduction of Instructors:
Ed Yarmak, PE is the President of Arctic Foundations, Inc. and has 43 years of passive and active ground freezing experience. He has managed deployment of hundreds of projects using thermosyphon cooling systems in and out of Alaska. He is a past president of the US Permafrost Association, a past chair of ASCE’s Cold Region Engineering Division, and is currently on the Executive Committee of the International Permafrost Association.
Dr. Anna Wagner is an environmental engineer at CRREL and works across a broad spectrum of science and engineering projects primarily focused on Alaska and cold regions studies. She has worked on thermosyphon research projects including several installations in Fairbanks, AK. She was the USPA President in 2023.
Format: The webinar is offered on Zoom. The webinar will be moderated. The seminar will be recorded and uploaded on the USPA website.