Putting permafrost in the classroom The Arctic’s permanently frozen soils are increasingly thawing – with far-reaching consequences for the climate and for people living in the region. Together with partner [...] schoolchildren from Aklavik, Canada are helping the Alfred Wegener Institute gather valuable data on permafrost. By doing so, they’re improving the joint understanding of the changes at work on their doorstep [...] has consequences for the day-to-day lives of the roughly five million people who live atop the permafrost. Entire sections of coastline are washed away by the sea, while elsewhere the ground collapses

Common Grounds – Permafrost Sonification The circumpolar region of the arctic is the fastest warming place on earth. While finally acknowledged by the public, and already felt as more frequent extreme [...] Halperin-Kaddari of the Sono-Choreographic Collective in collaboration with Tobias Grewenig and the Permafrost research group led by Julia Boike at Alfred-Wegener-Institut Potsdam. Common Grounds ATD Documentation [...] Participants (extern) Kerstin Ergenzinger, Bnaya Halperin-Kaddari, Tobias Grewenig Section (AWI) Permafrost Research

Permafrost Thaw Action Group The Permafrost Thaw Action Group was part of the Terrestrial Multidisciplinary distributed Observatories for the Study of Arctic Connections (T-MOSAiC). Together with MOSAiC [...] d collection of field data for quantifying permafrost thaw. It addresses the need for integrated observations of multiple connected components of permafrost landscapes, including soils, snow, and vegetation [...] vegetation. Illustration of the standarized permafrost monitoring protocol. The five spheres (snow, water, permafrost, vegetation and soil) with the associated parameters, measurement modes, and observation

Yedoma Permafrost Landscapes as Past Archives, Present and Future Change Areas The Research Topic „Yedoma permafrost landscapes as past archives, present and future change areas” was published in Frontiers [...] this Yedoma Research Topic represent a broad view on current know-ledge in permafrost research with respect to Yedoma permafrost landscapes. Since about 150 years research was undertaken to highlight the [...] Frontiers in Earth Science in July 2022. Ice-rich permafrost deposits of late Pleistocene age (Yedoma Ice Complex) covered several million km² of the Arctic main land between the Taymyr Peninsula and the Yukon

Permafrost Long-term Observatories Our long-term observatories collect weather, soil and permafrost data at various measuring stations in Siberia (Lena river delta, Samoylov), Canada (Trail Valley Creek [...] indicates the significance of the slope (MannKendall test). Data, publications and information from the Permafrost LTO's. LTO Samoylov LTO-Trendviewer LTO Bayelva

available here: Overview Agenda 16th DACH Permafrost Conference (Graphic: D-A-CH Permafrost Union) Detailed Agenda 16th DACH Permafrost Conference (Graphic: D-A-CH Permafrost Union) Map HVHS Seddiner See (Graphic: [...] connected with several international networks: International Permafrost Association (IPA) Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P) Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN) Association of Polar Early [...] 16th DACH Permafrost Conference The 16th DACH Permafrost Conference was held from 21–24 January 2026 at the HVHS am Seddiner See near Potsdam, Germany. The conference is the central scientific meeting

Permafrost Modelling Profile Why do we need Permafrost Models? Permafrost models are important tools to investigate the role and the sensitivity of frozen ground under very complex environmental and climatic [...] Since permafrost is usually not visible at the earth’s surface and only few measurement sites exist, models are also important to investigate the current state of permafrost. Furthermore, permafrost models [...] the elements that we are able to simulate with our permafrost-land surface model. (Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) What are Permafrost Models? Permafrost models provide information on ground temperatures

Permafrost Remote Sensing Profile Permafrost landscape dynamics are intensifying in rapidly warming Arctic-Boreal high northern latitude regions. Relying on field studies we observed and understand a wide [...] continuous time series data of land cover change, permafrost landscape change, or other environmental dynamics. We particularly focus on permafrost region landscape characteristics, land cover change [...] Friedrich Röseler Annabeth McCall Carl Stadie Guest: Kathrin Maier Projects FLO CHAR ESA Permafrost CCI ESA GlobPermafrost ERC PETA-CARB (2013-2018) IPA Action Group - The Yedoma Region

Coastal Permafrost Profile About 34% of the world's coasts are affected by Arctic permafrost and are particularly sensitive to climate change. The frozen cliffs lose their cohesion, which is ensured by [...] ble to quantify the amount of eroded sediment and organic material more accurately. The group "Permafrost Coasts" investigates the velocity and character of sediment and organic matter transport into the [...] echosounder bathymetry: to quantify the content of particulate and dissolved organic material in permafrost sediments and their bottom ice and to characterize its spatial variability; to quantify the velocity

inducing more permafrost thaw and carbon release. To assess the concern of a permafrost-climate feedback and to develop a better understanding of future permafrost-carbon dynamics, the Permafrost Biogeochemistry [...] drastic changes in Arctic permafrost landscapes, such as active layer deepening, thermal erosion and development of rapid thaw features. Organic matter stored frozen in permafrost deposits for thousands of [...] Characterizing the past, present and future changes of permafrost organic matter under warming climate and changing land use. Mission Statement: The Permafrost Biogeochemistry Working Group focuses its efforts