• Why rivers in the far north are turning orange

    interview with the Financial Times: The brightly coloured waterways in the Arctic are a sign that permafrost is thawing, with potentially hazardous consequences.

  • Herschel Island

    Coastal Permafrost Prosion, Organic Carbon and Nutrient Release in the Arctic Nearshore Zone ), it’s the ideal field laboratory. Lantuit and his team want to determine how fast the permafrost is thawing

  • InnoLab for Arctic Research

    trace gases from thawing permafrost. The weather in Brandenburg also fluctuates due to long-range atmospheric effects from the Arctic. The north polar seas, coasts and permafrost regions contain unique habitats [...] modular components for cloud observation, analytical and data-based tools for remote sensing in permafrost regions and laboratory equipment for analyzing a wide range of sample series from the atmosphere [...] components of the InnoLab concentrate on the three research fields at the AWI Potsdam in relation to permafrost dynamics , the spatio-temporal variability of polar terrestrial environmental systems and the role

  • Alaska-2015-07

    shore of Teshekpuk lake Carson Baughman and Guido drilling a permafrost core in the Ikpikpuk river delta Small peaty and sandy layers in a permafrost core from the Ikpikpuk river delta Guido and Matthias returning [...] drained thaw lake basin View of Finger Rock, one of the many natural sights along the Dalton Highway Permafrost core from the Teshekpuk area

  • Geosciences

    g., on the composition and spreading of marine sediments, on the substance- and energy flow in permafrost regions, and on the structure and change in the earth's crust and polar ice caps. The necessary [...] personal Awards Our fields of expertise Geophysics Marine Geochemistry Glaciology Marine Geology Permafrost Research Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems

  • North-West Canada 2021

    Canada, near the communities of Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk. Our goal is to study the current state of permafrost as part of the MOSES (Modular Observation Solutions for Earth Systems) project. Our research in [...] “Lake 3” we conducted Electrical Resistivity Tomography surveys in an effort to map the depth to permafrost under the lake. As part of our outreach activities, some members of our team joined a summer camp

  • Arctic Pulse

    observations 2) Permafrost, snow dynamics, and coastal processes Monitor snow distribution, melt timing, and surface hydrology across tundra and coastal environments Quantify permafrost thaw, terrain subsidence [...] ed by airborne surveys using AWI’s Polar 5 and Polar 6 aircraft to observe sea-ice conditions, permafrost disturbances and greenhouse gas fluxes (REVISIT flight campaign). These efforts are combined with [...] Arctic are among the areas experiencing the fastest climate-driven changes worldwide. Thawing permafrost, accelerating coastal erosion, retreating glaciers, and increasing discharge from the Mackenzie

  • Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems

    (rechts) Die Permafrost_cci und REKLIM Datenkollektion bringt alle Daten nach dem 3 Layer Konzept für Permafrost Landschaften zusammen: 2 Schichten repräsentieren die Auftauschicht und den Permafrost und beide [...] Berlin – Remote Sensing Image Analysis Group: Prof. Dr. Begüm Demir (Projekt B) ESA CCI+ Permafrost ESA CCI+ Permafrost Im European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI+) Programm werden konsistente [...] er-Äquivalent angetrieben. AWI Potsdam ist verantwortlich für die Permafrost_cci Produkt-Validierung. Dafür stellen wir die Permafrost_cci und REKLIM Bodentemperatur-Kollektion aus Temperaturmessungen

  • CACOON

    perennially frozen carbon that may be released by further warming. Climate change already thaws permafrost, reduces sea-ice and increases riverine discharge over much of the pan-Arctic, triggering important [...] impact of shifting seasonality, fresher water, changing nutrient supply and greater proportions of permafrost-derived carbon on coastal waters CACOON Aims CACOON addresses this knowledge gap by investigating [...] watershed area. CACOON will quantify the effect of changing freshwater export and terrestrial permafrost thaw on the type and fate of river-borne organic matter delivered to Arctic coastal waters, and

  • SoboSiseBykovsky-2015-08

    ice-wedge ground-ice bodies constitute the 25 m high and more than kilometer long Yedoma cliff Permafrost thaw at the cliff edge Sunset with seagull Jacob's-ladder with bumblebee Forget-me-not (myosotis [...] coalesced alases surrounded by eroding yedoma uplands Sampling of peat horizons for reconstruction of permafrost thaw history Tundra walk with sledge, samples, shovel, and gas drill Active layer measurements