• Beavers gnawing away at the permafrost

    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

  • Why permafrost might thaw sooner than expected

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    Experts from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) and the University of Oslo have determined that much [...] much of the permafrost that is currently still very cold might disappear by the end of the century. What’s new about their simulations: the inclusion of thermokarst processes. The outcomes of the study

  • 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

  • Coastlines’ contribution to climate change possibly underestimated

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    Permafrost coasts make up about one third of the Earth’s total coastline. As a result of accelerated climate change, whole sections of coastline rapidly thaw, and erode into the [...] now shows that large amounts of carbon dioxide are potentially being produced along these eroding permafrost coastlines in the Arctic.

  • Siberia’s permafrost erosion has been worsening for years

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    The Arctic is warming faster than any other region on the planet. As a result, permafrost that is thousands of years old is now being lost to erosion. As measurements gathered on the Lena [...] every year, roughly 15 metres of the riverbanks crumble away. In addition, the carbon stored in the permafrost could worsen the greenhouse effect.

  • New method for gauging methane release from Arctic lakes

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    Lakes in the northernmost latitudes are widely considered to be a significant source of the greenhouse gas methane. In order to improve currently available climate-change projection models

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    Guido Grosse Arctic permafrost landscape dynamics and Earth System feedbacks Permafrost coring in the Fish Creek Delta, North Alaska (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Arctic permafrost landscapes change rapidly [...] of rapid permafrost thaw processes. I am also overseeing the establishment of the new Arctic Permafrost Geospatial Center (APGC) that is planned as a focus point for distribution of permafrost-related [...] Geo-informatics, land-surface dynamics, permafrost Dr. Josefine Lenz Working title of PhD project: Permafrost and landscape dynamics in Central Beringia Permafrost landscapes are very dynamic and influenced

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    Expedition Sobo-Sise and Peninsula Bykovsky 2014 description of a permafrost core field camp on Sobo-Sise inspection of a possible sampling site romantic midnight atmosphere on the shore of the river Lena [...] team on Bykovsky drilling of a hole for temperature measurement Pingo on Bykovsky drilling in permafrost on Bykovsky ice sample

  • Cooperations

    Networks Permafrost Carbon Network: www.permafrostcarbon.org IPA Action Group Yedoma Carbon: ipa.arcticportal.org/images/stories/AG_reports/AG4_for_website.pdf PYRN (Permafrost Young Researchers [...] Institute of Earth Sciences Russia Northeast Science Station, Cherskii Dr. Sergei Zimov Mel'nikov Permafrost Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Yakutsk Dr. Alexandr Fedorov, Dr. Pavel