Petroleum engineering students Tom Polasek, on knees, Justin Calkins, left, and Brett Martino build a permafrost simulation chamber in a Duckering Building lab. The project seeks to monitor the effects of heat from the wells and prevent the thawing of permafrost on Alaska's North Slope oil fields.

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