• MOMENT

    the collected soil samples. Project Information Contact www.moment-permafrost.uni-hamburg.de/en/kontakt.html Website www.moment-permafrost.uni-hamburg.de/en.html Project Duration November 2022 until October [...] MOMENT The project " Permafrost Research Towards Integrated Observation and Modelling of the Methane Budget of Ecosystems," abbreviated as MOMENT, aims to reduce uncertainties in future greenhouse gas [...] This requires a comprehensive qualitative and quantitative understanding of the methane cycle in permafrost regions. In the Blæsedalen Valley on Disko Island, West Greenland, various studies on the current

  • Hugues Lantuit

    Potsdam. Permafrost Arctic Coastal Processes Arctic Coastal Geochemistry The permafrost coasts of the Arctic make up 34 per cent of the world's coastline and represent a key interface for human-environmental [...] Thaw on the Arctic permafrost coasts Prof. Dr. Hugues Lantuit, head of the Arctic coastal erosion research group at the Alfred Wegener Institute and professor for polar coasts at the University of Potsdam [...] high biodiversity and productivity and support indigenous lifestyles. At the same time, Arctic permafrost coasts are a particularly heat-sensitive area. Rising air and water temperatures as well as increasing

  • UndercoverEisAgenten

    sea ice, thawing of permafrost is mostly taking place in the hidden depths of the ground. By causing profound ecological upheaval and destabilizing infrastructure, thawing permafrost has a direct impact [...] Landscapes is indicated by altering polygonal structures and permafrost thaw. Polygons in Northwest Canada indicating the presence and state of permafrost City of Aklavik in the Mackenzie Delta, September 2022 [...] Education and Research (BMBF) is gathering reliable and up-to-date data on the state and rate of permafrost thaw to provide better insights on landscape disturbances and the impact on people living in the

  • 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

  • Bykovsky-April-2017

    Expedition Bykovsky Peninsula 2017 Degradation of sub-aquatic permafrost can, impact offshore infrastructure, affect coastal erosion and release large quantities of methane, which may reach the atmosphere [...] injections into the sediment. The relative importance of these controls on the rate of sub-aquatic permafrost degradation, however, remains poorly understood. Therefore, the overarching science goal for the [...] the 2017 Bykovsky Spring Expedition was to evaluate the nature and distribution of subaquatic permafrost and taliks in multiple cryostratigraphic settings with drilling, sampling, near-surface geophysics

  • Alaska-2016-08

    Frozen organic matter in a permafrost core Validation flight over Kobuk river valley Sunset at Kotzebue, Alaska Sunset at Kotzebue, Alaska Ingmar on his way to the next permafrost coring location carriyng [...] features in the Kobuk Valley National Park Matthias and Guido sampling permafrost cores in the Kobuk Delta Jens describing a permafrost exposure on the Baldwin Peninsula while Bill from the U.S. Fish and [...] and Wildlife Service is taken care of the bear safety Ben Jones and Josefine coring permafrost with the SIPRE corer in the Noatak Delta Being around 12 years old, the Selawik Slump is already stabilized and

  • Coastlines’ contribution to climate change possibly underestimated

    Scientific Publication
    Permafrost coasts make up about one third of the Earth’s total coastline. As a result of accelerated climate change, whole sections of coastline rapidly thaw, and erode into the [...] now shows that large amounts of carbon dioxide are potentially being produced along these eroding permafrost coastlines in the Arctic.

  • Spitsbergen 2023

    Spitsbergen. We had two main goals: Firstly, we maintained the Bayelva permafrost observatory where multiple air, snow, soil, and permafrost parameters have been measured since 1998. And secondly, we measured [...] elevations using a high-accuracy GPS antenna to estimate surface subsidence resulting from thawing permafrost. In addition, we visited research sites of local and international partners and discussed scientific

  • ICOP 2016

    inventory of the yedoma permafrost region the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of the Eleventh ICOP Barbecue at the Barbecue Ingmar gives his great speech about monitoring of permafrost dynamics Guido - unstoppable [...] Jens and Dr. Valentin Spektor in front of the Yedoma-Map-Poster Matthias having his talk about permafrost soil carbon storage in the Lena-Delta Josefine in front of her poster Conference Banquet while

  • Coastal erosion in the Arctic intensifies global warming

    Nature Communications Study
    The loss of arctic permafrost deposits by coastal erosion could amplify climate warming via the greenhouse effect. A study using sediment samples from the Sea of Okhotsk [...] Okhotsk on the eastern coast of Russia led by AWI researchers revealed that the loss of Arctic permafrost at the end of the last glacial period led to repeated sudden increases in the carbon dioxide concentration