FluxWIN

emissions in this project is also important for understanding how now-frozen soils will respond to permafrost thaw as soils that are always frozen shift to becoming seasonally or perennially thawed with increased

First UNEP Permafrost Report relies on expertise of the Alfred Wegener Institute

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Finnigan-MAT Delta-S Mass Spectrometer

Stable Isotopes at AWI Potsdam and tackles various scientific reseach questions in the fields of permafrost research, hydrology, limnology, marine geochemistry and glaciology. The AWI Potsdam Laboratory

FLO CHAR

water and sediment samples. Correlations between permafrost distribution and sediment characteristics will help determine the role of subsea permafrost in ecosystem dynamics. Furthermore, the project will [...] this project is to determine the impact of changing land-ocean matter fluxes and coastal subsea permafrost on nearshore ecosystems and biodiversity in the Beaufort Sea. This project will build on recent [...] zone, focusing on how it is impacted by climate change. Investigate the role of recently submerged permafrost in sediment-water gas exchange. In this project, we plan to conduct two campaigns in the spring

Expeditions

), MPI Yakutsk (Melnikov Permafrost Institute), and NEFU (North-Eastern Federal University Yakutsk). Duration: Four Weeks. Goals: Exposed to subaquatic conditions, permafrost thaw occurs exponentially [...] Melnikov Permafrost Institute Yakutsk and ERC PETA-CARB in the eastern Lena Delta (Sobo Sise Island) and on Bykovsky Peninsula. Transport: Helicopter. Duration: Three Weeks. Goals: Sampling of permafrost soils [...] reconstructions, geodetic surveys of subsidence caused by permafrost thaw, bathymetric surveys, installation of temperature sensors in permafrost boreholes and lakes. PETA-CARB participants: Guido Grosse

European Research Council (ERC) funds Potsdam AWI researcher

emissions of the greenhouse gases methane and nitrogen so high outside the vegetation periods in permafrost regions? How do the carbon and nitrogen cycles and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions differ

Environmental Prize for Permafrost Researcher

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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

Earth System Complexity

large-scale components of the Earth, like the ice sheets and ocean circulation, boreal forest and permafrost. We strive to increase our understanding of the relevant processes driving dynamics within these

Earth Observing Systems

the working group Wolfgang Dierking Website Stefanie Linow Topics Sea ice drift and deformation Permafrost Polynias Ice shelf and icebergs Snow accumulation What is remote sensing? Typical for remote sensing [...] research? In our group we focus on the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, on sea ice, and on permafrost regions. Typical questions are: Which sea ice types can be separated in radar images? How do polynyas [...] and deformation? Which sensor combinations are optimal for classification of land cover units in permafrost regions? How can we retrieve snow accumulation rates from satellite data? The results of our analyses