• Gesine_Mollenhauer_AWI-Expert_UK.pdf

    Texel, the Netherlands. Mollenhauer has taken part in numerous expe- ditions at sea and to the permafrost regions of the Arctic. Since 2006, she is head of a research group at the Alfred Wegener Institute

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  • Gesine Mollenhauer

    and Professor at the University of Bremen. Radiocarbon dating Paleoceanography Sediment transport Permafrost The seafloor is a gigantic repository. Every particle that is not consumed by marine animals, including [...] not only to reconstruct the Arctic’s climate history, but also to understand the role of thawing permafrost in past climate changes. Based on this knowledge, they can make more accurate predictions about

  • PETA-CARB in the Media

    of permafrost on the occasion of the start of the ESA GlobPermafrost-Projekt. 2016-01-26 The dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur released an article about Jens co-authored paper on an eroding permafrost cliff [...] thawing permafrost close to the settlement of Batagay in Yakutia (Russia). The article has been also featured in DIE WELT . 2017-02-03 Jens published a comprehensive article titled "Permafrost: Pandoras [...] long-term permafrost thaw" 2015-11-02 A new paper co-authored by Guido and published in Scientific Reports on using LiDAR elevation data to quantify the impacts of tundra fires on destabilising permafrost and

  • News

    "Carbon in Deep Permafrost" at the 2 nd Asian Conference on Permafrost (ACOP2017), held in Sapporo, Japan. 5.-8. June 2017 Guido, Frank and Anne participated in the Pushchino Permafrost Conference «Earth's [...] change and permafrost degradation in the Arctic at the Klimawerkstatt Spandau . 30. November - 1. December 2018 Loeka, Clara and Josefine take part in the 10th meeting of the working group permafrost oft he [...] embarked on a long and successful journey to better understand and quantify the role of permafrost carbon and rapid permafrost thaw for the carbon cycle. We thank all who contributed to this effort! Many important

  • Results

    including these highly dynamic permafrost environments in future permafrost carbon estimations. Link to journal Carbon and nitrogen pools in thermokarst-affected permafrost landscapes in Arctic Siberia Top: [...] order to account for high variability of permafrost and thermokarst environments in pan-permafrost soil C and N pool estimates. Link to journal Deep Yedoma permafrost: A synthesis of depositional characteristics [...] observed in permafrost regions of Eurasia and North America. Link to journal Tundra fires destabilize permafrost Comparison between the two airborne LiDAR datasets showing clear permafrost terrain subsidence

  • Guido_Grosse_AWI-Expert_UK.pdf

    in 2016, assumed leadership of the Permafrost Research Division at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam. His research currently focuses on the role of permafrost in the Earth system and the effects [...] Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), and has been investigating permafrost-related topics in the Arctic for over 20 years. He studied Geology at the Technische Universität [...] there, focusing on remote sensing of the landscape dynamics, hydrology and carbon cycle in Arctic permafrost regions (2006-2013). Having been awarded a prestigious Starting Grant from the European Research

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  • Matthias Fuchs

    inundation of coastal permafrost areas and their role in the permafrost carbon climate feedback.


    Personal Information Position PostDoc Project P2C2 Research interests Permafrost, coastal wetlands, Arctic
  • methods

    Beck, I. et al. (2015): Assessing Permafrost Degradation and Land Cover Changes (1986 - 2009) using Remote Sensing Data over Umiujaq, Sub-Arctic, Québec, Permafrost and Periglacial Processes , 26 (2) [...] pp. 129 -141. Boike, J. , et al. (2013): Baseline characteristics of climate, permafrost and land cover from a new permafrost observatory in the Lena River Delta, Siberia (1998-2011), Biogeosciences, 10 [...] al. (2012): Using ground data from the Global Terrestrial Network of Permafrost (GTN-P) for the Evaluation of the ESA DUE Permafrost remote sensing derived Products Land Surface Temperature and ASCAT Surface

  • Lars_Kaleschke_AWI-Expert_UK2.pdf

    Cluster of Excellence for climate research. There he headed the research topic Arctic Regions and Permafrost. He coordinated various research projects and was involved in developing and testing a system for

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  • How Much Carbon Will Peatlands Lose as Permafrost Thaws?

    A process-based model reveals that how much carbon peatlands may lose—or accumulate—in the future varies from place to place.