• Micropaleontology Lab

    grains and aquatic organisms e.g. diatom valves and chironomids from lake sediment archives or permafrost deposits. Microfossil analyses are used to investigate spatial and temporal changes and environmental

  • Model development

    climates focusing on the open larch forest ecosystem in Arctic environments which are underlain by permafrost. It is now extended to simulate all representative boreal tree species in the Taiga-Tundra Ecotone

  • Remote Sensing Methods

    BMWi funding) and Validation : ESA CCI Permafrost Validation team for the Permafrost_cci Products circumarctic Ground Temperature, Active Layer Thickness, Permafrost Probability our main activities: qualitative

  • Permafrost Research

    multiproxy analyses of permafrost and lacustrine records. Our Permafrost Section staff has diverse expertise and uses a wide range of methods. Methods for studying past permafrost conditions and environmental [...] environments and dynamics of permafrost landscapes Methods for studying the current and future state of permafrost: Continuous measurements of hydroclimatic data and permafrost temperatures Study of water [...] Lantuit Assistant Melanie Reinhardt Website Sebastian Laboor Stations Permafrost Data Permafrost Long-term Observatories In Focus - Permafrost Publications Expedition Reports

  • Palaeogenetics Lab

    to analyse ancient sedimentary DNA (sedaDNA) from sediment cores (lakes or marine archives) or permafrost deposits. The lab is divided into two separate laboratory complexes handling modern and ancient [...] into pre-PCR and main rooms) Isolation of ancient DNA from ancient samples (e.g. lake sediment, permafrost) DNA library preparation of ancient DNA for shot-gun sequencing Lab equipment includes: Clean

  • Permafrost Region Greenhouse Gases

    Permafrost Region Greenhouse Gases Profile Climate change affects many northern ecosystems such as wetlands, peatlands and permafrost soils, which store a lot of carbon and nitrogen in organic matter. [...] peatlands, wetlands, and permafrost soils. Our projects focus on carbon and nitrogen interactions, cold-season biogeochemical processes, methane emissions from northern wetlands, and permafrost dynamics in northern [...] published a paper with the title: Predicted vulnerability of carbon in permafrost peatlands with future climate change and permafrost thaw in Western Canada doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005872 12 March

  • Themes

    nations. Find out more Ice Climate Arctic Permafrost The cold regions of our planet are home to massive areas in which the ground is permeated by frost: permafrost soil. However, climate change is steadily [...] steadily reducing the scope and scale of the permafrost – with a host of grave consequences. Find out more Sea Arctic Antarctic North Sea Marine plastic debris Even in the most remote parts of the ocean, like

  • Past Climate Change

    seasonal temperature and precipitation dynamics as key driver of permafrost changes in East Siberia. To this end, caves and permafrost exposure will be studied in East Siberia along a transect from the [...] different types of relict permafrost ice, (iii) Deduce changes in seasonality, moisture dynamics, and continentality based on results from objectives 1 and 2, and corresponding permafrost response to climate [...] Marent , engineer Mikaela Weiner (CTA) Projects, Cooperations, Networking Reconstructing Siberian permafrost dynamics using stable and clumped isotopes (IsoPerm) (2021-2025) This joint project with Northumbria

  • Stable Isotopes Lab

    seasonal temperature and precipitation dynamics as key driver of permafrost changes in East Siberia. To this end, caves and permafrost exposure will be studied in East Siberia along a transect from the [...] different types of relict permafrost ice, (iii) Deduce changes in seasonality, moisture dynamics, and continentality based on results from objectives 1 and 2, and corresponding permafrost response to climate [...] orientation of research projects include scientific applications of stable isotope methods in permafrost research, palaeoclimate studies, by also in the fields of limnology, hydrology, ecology and glaciology

  • Projects

    CCI+ Permafrost ESA CCI+ Permafrost The European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI+) provides consistent time series for climate-research related applications. Within CCI+ Permafrost (2018-2021) [...] derived from satellite data. AWI Potsdam is responsible for the Permafrost_cci permafrost product validation. We are assembling the Permafrost_cci und REKLIM data collection of shallow ground temperature [...] Northern hemisphere Permafrost_cci permafrost probability and in situ ground temperature + environmental data collection from a wide range of measurement programs. (right) This Permafrost-cci and REKLIM data