You left us too early: a eulogy to permafrost
published in EGU Cryosphere Blog:
https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/cr/2022/03/04/you-left-us-too-early-a-eulogy-to-permafrost/
Loeka Jongejans likes to combine art and science and wrote a eulogy for permafrost for the year 2322, in which she looks back at how we treated or rather neglected permafrost over the past 300 years.
Analysis Videos
The videos are grouped into a playlist:
Visualization of a permafrost core composition
The Master’s thesis and visualization was done by Damir Gadylyeav, supervised by Julia Boike and Jan Nitzbon.
A CT (Computed Tomography) scan is similar to an x-ray used in hospitals when you have a broken bone; we can see “inside” the frozen permafrost without destroying it. The obtained images show different colors based on density differences of the material (raw images). Lighter grey indicate higher densities (for example, mineral grains in white), darker grey lower density (for example, gas in black). We constructed 3D models based on the classified images into the categories “excess ice”, “air”, and two sediment types “A” and “B”.
These videos made by Bill Cable show a MOSES permafrost thaw campaign in the Mackenzie Delta, NWT, Canada between 9-30 September 2021. The expedition was led by AWI Potsdam, in collaboration with the German Research Centre for Geosciences and Canadian partners from the Geological Survey of Canada and Wilfrid Laurier University. The videos were edited by Franz Waldmann.
Interview, Podcast
Lennart Reimers' podcast appeared April 19, 2021 in Deep Dive Podcast on Anchor (Spotify).
Ingmar Nitze talks about permafrost & climate change, tipping point thermocast, climate predictions, beavers as climate sinners, mammoths as climate saviors and much more.
Interview, Video (German)
The interview was published in December 2020 in the program Welt Berufscheck.
Hugues Lantuit, permafrost coastal researcher at AWI and geomorphology professor at the University of Potsdam, gives an overview of the daily research routine of a polar researcher. Whether in the Potsdam office or in the Canadian Arctic, the tasks are diverse and varied. Hugues talks about encounters with bears, what you have to pay attention to when acquiring data in the Arctic, and how he came to his profession.
Artikel (German)
The great melt
Glaciers are shrinking, permafrost is thawing, the Arctic could soon be temporarily ice-free: can we still save the Earth's ice?
A breathtaking journey from the North to the South Pole.
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The effects of global warming on the most remote regions of our planet is visualized in the Spiegel article "Die große Schmelze": From melting sea ice at the North Pole to thawing permafrost in Siberia and North America, and from the loss of glaciers on Greenland and in high mountain ranges, to the increase in Antarctic sea ice. Impressive images illustrate the journey from the North to the South Pole.
Article (German)
The article, that provides insights into permafrost research and a warming Arctic, was published in the magazine Mare in 2020.
The research station on the island Samoylov, located in the middle of the Lena Delta, is an important basis for German-Russian permafrost research in Siberia. Günter Stoof was a station technician for many years until his retirement in 2018. He tells about his experiences and what it means to spend the summer in the Arctic tundra and keep a research station running.
Video (Digital Art)
The results of the project were presented live on the "re:publica Campus" in Berlin in 2020.
Credit: Michael Schmitz for Helmholtz/HIDA (https://www.helmholtz-hida.de/en/)
In her research, Tabea Rettelbach examines massive ice bodies in the ground, so called ice wedges. They form interesting structures on the surface. Her data on ice wedge polygons were included in an art project from the Helmholtz Information and Data Science Academy (HIDA), which was made by the digital artist Michael Schmitz (NEOANALOG) (from minute 6:56).
Video
This video made by Bennet Juhls shows a MOSES Campaign on the Stechlin Lake from 17-20 August 2020. In addition to the LakeLab facilities of the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), participants from Employees from AWI Potsdam, AWI Helgoland, German Research Centre for Geosciences and the University of Applied Science Brandenburg (THB) were involved.
How do we prepare for fieldwork in Siberia? By extensively testing the instruments, devices and the team in the vicinity of Brandenburg.
Online Presentation
This presentation is part of the Permafrost Collaboration Team of the IARPC and was held on 13 August 2020.
Jan Nitzbon speaks about the rapid changes of ice-rich permafrost in Siberia as a result of a warming climate. His results are based on numerical modelling of thaw processes and their projections in the future.
Online Presentation (German)
This presentation is created in collaboration with the project Permafrost Change and AWI4Future and was held in “Wissenschaft fürs Wohnzimmer” (Science at home) on 23 July 2020.
Ingmar Nitze and Matthias Fuchs speak about permafrost landscapes and how they change across space and time. With a bird’s eye view, remote sensing methods are used to research permafrost thaw.
Online Presentation (German)
This presentation is created in collaboration with the project Permafrost Change and AWI4Future and was held in “Wissenschaft fürs Wohnzimmer” (Science at home) on 16 July 2020.
Matthias Fuchs and Josefine Lenz speak about permafrost and its relevance for global carbon storage. Following thaw of the frozen ground, plant remains can become available for microbial decomposition and set free greenhouse gases.
Online Story
The webreport “Life in the Canadian Arctic” is a project of the research group PermaRisk, which is led by Moritz Langer, and was published in 2020.
Digital stories invite you to travel to the Canadian Arctic. Visual impressions and conversations with Arctic inhabitants and scientists allow you to experience life on permafrost and the consequences of permafrost thaw.
Video
The video was created by AWI’s Communication and Media Department in June 2020.
On the occasion of 25-year German-Russian cooperation of the AWI Permafrost Research Section, a video was created that impressively documents the expeditions and work in Siberia.
Map
The map was created 2020 as part of the EU Project Nunataryuk under the direction of Hugues Lantuit in a collaboration with GRID Arendal.
This new permafrost map combines the modelling results of permafrost on land and under the sea.
The Permafrost map in various languages and a folding map can be found here.
Comic
The comics were created by 12 young scientists and 2 artists as part of an IPA Action Group, 2015-2017. From this project, more products such as videos, animations and a board game were established. The translation of the comics into a variety of languages is in progress.
Michael Fritz is one of the involved scientists and the contact person for the printed versions.
These comics on the subject of permafrost tell stories about living and working on and with permafrost.
This series of videos with comics and animations explains
See also: https://frozengroundcartoon.com/videos/
These videos are follow-up projects of the Permafrost Comics and were created as part of the EU Project Nunataryuk.
Presentation
The presentations were created as part of the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative and were broadcasted on livestream on 5 December 2019.
During the negotiations of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP25) in December 2019 in Madrid, Guido Grosse and other international experts spoke in the Cryosphere Pavilion about the role of permafrost in the climate system. The background is the IPCC Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere (SROCC), which was published in 2019.
Presentation
This presentation was held by Hugues Lantuit as part of the Helmholtz Horizons Symposium on 6 November 2019.
This short video presents the global and local impact of eroding permafrost shorelines and the collaboration with Arctic communities.
Video
The video is a joint initiative from AWI, DEKRA Hochschule für Medien (Media Academy) and the Helmholtz Climate Initiative REKLIM.
This video summarizes the 11th International Conference on Permafrost that was held in Potsdam in June 2016. The conference was co-organized by the AWI Section Permafrost Research.
Explanation video
The video was created by AWI’s Communication and Media department in March 2016.
This video introduces the topic permafrost and what happens when it thaws.
Fact Sheet
This fact sheet is part of a series of fact sheets and was published by AWI experts in November 2015.
The important facts and information about permafrost are summarized on these four pages.
Presentation
This presentation was held at the Arctic Circle Conference in October 2015.
Julia Boike talks about the background, methods and challenges of permafrost research.
Presentation
This presentation was held at the Arctic Circle Conference in October 2015.
Hugues Lantuit talks about the effect of permafrost thaw on infrastructure and coastal settlements.
