ground surface conditions is crucial for monitoring the thermal state of permafrost and dynamics in active layer thickness. Permafrost degradation affects ecosystems, communities and industrial sites in large [...] the evolution of permafrost under these conditions is of great importance. Due to an often-prevailing harsh climate in these vast areas, observational data sets are sparse. Permafrost itself is a sub-surface [...] which seasonal snow cover has on the ground surface, strongly affects the permafrost’s thermal regime and active 1Permafrost is defined as any material beneath the ground surface that remains frozen for

20-25min): Permafrost Degradation and Infrastructure Modeling Permafrost Landscape Dynamics Housing and infrastructure related problems in Greenland Modeling Gravel and Ice Roads on Permafrost Lunch: 12:00 [...] Tundra Travel Detecting Permafrost Dynamics and Infrastructure from Space Permafrost Landscape Dynamics and Indigenous Land Use Modeling Biogeophysical Processes in Permafrost Environments Lunch: 12:00–12:30: [...] 12:00 – 12:30: Breakout Sessions 12:30 - 14:30: Modeling Permafrost - Infrastructure Interactions Permafrost Degradation Features Ground Ice and Hydrology Breakout Sessions Summary 14:30 – 15:00 Open Poster

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.

AWI scientist Michael Fritz receives this year's Potsdam Prize for Science Communication for the project "Es taut!: Frozen Ground Cartoons". The comics were created in cooperation with artists.

Coastal erosion in the Arctic
The thawing and erosion of Arctic permafrost coasts has dramatically increased in the past years and the sea is now consuming more than 20 meters of land per year at some

in the Arctic are no longer just the domain of scientists. The shrinking sea ice and collapsing permafrost coasts are now also becoming topics on the agenda of international politics and industry. To be

National Science and Technology Development Agency of Thailand NUNATARYUK EU-funded Project on permafrost and social impact, coordinated by AWI NUSAFE Nuclear Waste Management, Safety, and Radiation Research

Permafrost
The Arctic is warming more strongly than any other region on Earth, which leads to serious erosion of coasts where organic matter was frozen in the permafrost for thousands of years. Once

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

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