Prize for AWI scientist Ingmar Nitze: As part of this years Publication Award of the Leibniz Kolleg in Potsdam, the permafrost expert has been announced as a laureate. The yearly confered promotion supports young scientists of mathematics and natural sciences.

February 1st, 2025, Carolina Voigt and her junior researcher group COLDSPOT will be established in the Permafrost section. The junior researcher group deals with CH4 and N2O www.uni-potsdam.de/de/umwe

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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.

their new homes, creating a host of new water bodies. This could accelerate the thawing of the permafrost soils, and therefore intensify climate change, as an International American-German research team

like what we now see in eastern Siberia. Today’s Arctic, with ice-covered Greenland, Siberian permafrost and sea ice at the North Pole, is a holdover of that glacial world. But for how much longer? As

investigation into the rapidly changing permafrost regions in the northern hemisphere. The project seeks to answer pressing questions about the role of permafrost thaw in the global climate system, and [...] the people living in these regions. The culmination of this ambitious endeavour is the "Arctic Permafrost Atlas," a ground-breaking publication set to launch during the Arctic Circle Assembly on October

Climate change and the Southern Ocean Climate change and the North Sea Climate change and the ocean Permafrost Information on Governance The collaborative framework of AWI’s Antarctic research Marine Protected

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The fate of permafrost - soil that is frozen for 2 or more years - is of huge importance for the global climate because of the large amounts of organic carbon stored in it, which can be released

Expedition Bykovsky Peninsula 2017 Degradation of sub-aquatic permafrost can, impact offshore infrastructure, affect coastal erosion and release large quantities of methane, which may reach the atmosphere [...] injections into the sediment. The relative importance of these controls on the rate of sub-aquatic permafrost degradation, however, remains poorly understood. Therefore, the overarching science goal for the [...] the 2017 Bykovsky Spring Expedition was to evaluate the nature and distribution of subaquatic permafrost and taliks in multiple cryostratigraphic settings with drilling, sampling, near-surface geophysics

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