• A glance into the future of the Arctic

    Permafrost
    Throughout the Arctic, ice wedges are thawing at a rapid pace. Changes to these structures, which are very common in permafrost landscapes, have a massive impact on the hydrology of the tundra

  • ILLUQ

    ILLUQ Permafrost underlies 22% of the Northern Hemisphere's exposed land surface and is thawing at an alarming rate as a direct consequence of climate change. When thawing, permafrost releases large quantities [...] quantities of organic matter and contaminants into the environment. In addition, permafrost thaw dramatically impacts infrastructure in local communities with wide-ranging consequences for health, economy [...] participatory research with local stake- and rightsholders, it will provide the first holistic look at permafrost thaw, pollution and human and environmental well-being in the Arctic and deliver information on

  • Energy and Waterfluxes

    fluxes at the plot and landscape scales in different permafrost affected ecosystems; Developing a process-oriented model for the typical Arctic permafrost system to predict subsurface processes (soil water [...] working on the following projects: MOMENT MOSES SIOS HEIBRiDS Climate and Permafrost Sonification Citizen Science Projekt Permafrost Thaw We cooperate with scientists around the world, including: Wilfrid [...] Laura Becker Moritz Rath Sofia Bauriedl Publications Projects BMBF MOSES Permafrost Thaw Action Group Common Grounds – Permafrost Sonification HEIBRiDS FLO CHAR PERMANOR EU PAGE21 PermaSAR

  • Labs

    Upscaling of permafrost region field measurements with remote sensing Generating permafrost remote sensing datasets suitable for model parametrization and validation Making geospatial permafrost datasets available [...] and other permafrost-region disturbance dynamics Mapping periglacial geomorphology, land surface changes, and surface deformation Advancing machine learning and deep learning for permafrost region remote [...] Laboratories Sedimentology Aim: Study of transport and accumulation processes of permafrost-related deposits Classification of sediment sequences in general Parameters: Sediment structure description

  • Outstanding Dissertation on Climate Change

    for his doctoral thesis, which represents a valuable contribution toward refining simulations of permafrost development: in it, he demonstrates the importance of small-scale landscape characteristics, since [...] a result of thawing. In the future, his findings could help provide a more realistic picture of permafrost thawing.

  • Watching the Arctic Thaw in Fast-forward

    Permafrost
    The frozen permafrost in the Arctic is thawing on an alarming scale. By analysing an annual record of satellite images, researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute have now confirmed these

  • Beavers are changing the face of the Arctic

    Permafrost
    Beavers are highly effective ecosystem engineers: if a given landscape isn’t quite to their liking, they simply rearrange the terrain. And that’s what they’ve been doing for millennia in [...] to their findings, the animals could change entire ecosystems and contribute to the thawing of permafrost soils, as they report in the journal Global Change Biology.

  • SoboSiseBykovsky-2014-08

    Expedition Sobo-Sise and Peninsula Bykovsky 2014 description of a permafrost core field camp on Sobo-Sise inspection of a possible sampling site romantic midnight atmosphere on the shore of the river Lena [...] team on Bykovsky drilling of a hole for temperature measurement Pingo on Bykovsky drilling in permafrost on Bykovsky ice sample Team Ergebnisse Aktuelles Fernerkundung Kohlenstoff Expeditionen PETA-CARB

  • Arctic coasts in transition

    Permafrost
    Arctic coasts are characterized by sea ice, permafrost and ground ice. This makes them particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, which is already accelerating rapid coastal

  • Researchers measure record erosion on Alaskan riverbank

    Permafrost
    According to estimates, Alaska's thawing permafrost soils cost the USA several 100 million dollars every decade – primarily because airports, roads, pipelines and settlements require relocation