(atmosphere, ocean, ice and land), Coastal and Shelf Sea Systems, Terrestrial Arctic Ecosystems and Permafrost, Marine and Polar Life, Aquaculture, Bionics. The projects are designed to support AWIs contribution

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

Permafrost
The permafrost regions of the Arctic, often referred to as nature’s iceboxes, contain tremendous amounts of carbon, mainly in the form of animal and vegetable matter accumulated in frozen [...] considered in permafrost emission estimates so far. As they report in the journal Nature Geoscience, abrupt thaw processes, which are possible in ca. five percent of all Arctic permafrost landscapes, could

(Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Global warming and the thawing of permafrost not only lead to destabilization of the soil in the permafrost regions of the Arctic, but also to a tendency to increasingly delimit [...] risk assessment is therefore crucial from an economic as well as ecological point of view. The permafrost model CryoGrid, which has been further developed as part of PermaRisk, is intended to help predict

2016]. Methodology The study area close to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska lies within the zone of continuous permafrost and is char- acterized by high ground ice contents. The landscape displays vast natural and hu [...] Westermann, J. Boike, G. Kirillin, G. Grosse, S. Peng & G. Krinner [2016]: Rapid de- gradation of permafrost underneath waterbodies in tundra landscapes – Toward a representation of thermokarst in land surface

of glaciers and ice sheets Floating Ice: sea, river, and lake ice Seasonal snow cover Changing permafrost Polar coastlines Oceanography of polar seas Hydrology of inland waters Polar land cover and land

and develop new project ideas and collaborations in permafrost research and permafrost engineering. The theme of the conference was "Exploring Permafrost in a Future Earth". Konferenz Abstracts Konferenzbericht [...] 11th International Conference on Permafrost The 11th International Permafrost Conference (ICOP 2016) took place in Potsdam from 20-24 June 2016. 739 participants from more than 36 nations attended the

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

AWI EXPERT Ph ot o: Ja n Pa ul s / A lf re d W eg en er In st it ut e Hugues Lantuit is a permafrost researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and [...] and the AWI research group Arctic Coastal Erosion, which he leads, mainly study the erosion of permafrost coasts and its impact on the environment as well as on local coastal communities. The team regularly [...] Hugues Lantuit is the co-founder of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) and the Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN). Both organizations are now over ten years old and bring together

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