• Samoylov

    special focus on the interaction of permafrost landscapes with recent climate warming and its consequences. Numerous long-term measuring stations for monitoring permafrost conditions, micrometeorology, the [...] largest nature reserves. This unique region is crucial for understanding the processes that influence permafrost in the Siberian Arctic. The station, operated by the Trofimuk Institute of Oil and Gas Geology [...] Marine Research, the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in St. Petersburg and the Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Siberian Department, Russian Academy of Sciences in Yakutsk. The aim of the fieldwork

  • Gallery

    Gallery Muostakh Island is a slender crescent of land in the Laptev Sea with ice-rich Yedoma permafrost. The sun has set over Muostakh Island in the central Laptev Sea. A driftwood fire on the beach provides [...] provides warmth at the end of the summer as we ready to return to civilization. Since permafrost begins to degrade as soon as it is submerged, for example as the coastline retreats, we often work close

  • AWIPEV Arctic Research Base

    Abromeit, Expedition Reporter for GEO Magazine, out at the Bayelva Permafrost Long-Term Observatory to collect data from the permafrost measuring instrument. Charlotte Havermans researcher from Alfred- [...] AWIPEV was formerly the Koldewey Station. Julia Boike, permafrost researcher, and Bill Cable, engineer, check instruments at the Bayelva long-term permafrost observatory. Bettina Haupt, station leader, launches [...] radiation and increasing ocean acidification. The geosciences, on the other hand, focus on changes in permafrost soils and glacier systems. Current Data AWI scientists carry out regular measurements. These are

  • 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
  • COPER

    Coastal permafrost erosion, organic carbon and nutrient release to the arctic nearshore zone (COPER) Permafrost Erosion Arctic permafrost coasts, which account for 34% of the coasts of the Earth, are extremely [...] change, because the frozen bluffs, upon contact with seawater, lose the cohesion provided by the permafrost matrix and are instantly washed away by incoming waves. With warming in the Arctic expected to [...] e the spatial variability of particulate and dissolved organic carbon and nutrient contents in permafrost sediments and ground ice as well their sediment characteristics through cross-shore sampling transects

  • AirMeth

    Methane Emissions from Arctic Wetlands (AirMeth) Fig.6: Polar5 flying at low lever over Arctic permafrost. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The atmospheric concentration of methane, a potent greenhouse [...] pattern is shown in Fig. 3. Starting from Barrow, long low level flight legs are flown over the permafrost wetland with ascents and descents interspersed for vertical soundings of the boundary layer structure [...] east to west during which the methane concentration accummulates in the boundary layer. Fig.1: Permafrost wetland of the Arctic Coastal Plain near Barrow (Alaska) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Fig.2:

  • AirMeth

    Methane Emissions from Arctic Wetlands (AirMeth) Fig.6: Polar5 flying at low lever over Arctic permafrost. (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) The atmospheric concentration of methane, a potent greenhouse [...] pattern is shown in Fig.3. Starting from Barrow, long low level flight legs are flown over the permafrost wetland with ascents and descents interspersed for vertical soundings of the boundary layer structure [...] east to west during which the methane concentration accummulates in the boundary layer. Fig.1: Permafrost wetland of the Arctic Coastal Plain near Barrow (Alaska) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Fig.2:

  • Remote Sensing

    order to identify and quantify potential risks for ecosystems and infrastructure emerging from permafrost degradation. Many landforms throughout the Arctic such as thermokarst lakes, thermoerosion gullies [...] the Arctic. In remote and vast Arctic areas satellite and aerial imagery provide insights into permafrost thaw processes on a regional scale which we would not gain from measurements at the surface. Remote [...] sensing component of the project, therefore, addresses the following research questions: 1. How do permafrost erosion features respond to changes in meteorological conditions? 2. What are the factors controlling

  • News

    further develop the CryoGrid permafrost model and apply it to thermokarst processes in ice-rich permafrost. He also deals with the question of the extent to which the permafrost region in the northern hemisphere [...] help provide a more realistic picture of permafrost thawing. AWI press release original press release Paper entitled "Sensitivity of ecosystem-protected permafrost under changing boreal forest structures [...] the workshop were the impacts of rapid permafrost degradation to the infrastructure and the results, potentials, objectives and plans on modelling of permafrost processes. Furthermore there were sessions

  • 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