• DACH Permafrost Conference

    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 21–24 January 2026 | HVHS am Seddiner See, near Potsdam, Germany We are pleased to invite you to the 16th DACH Permafrost Conference , taking place from 21 to 24 January [...] researchers to senior scientists. Conference Background The DACH Permafrost Conference began 17 years ago as a meeting for German-speaking permafrost researchers and has since evolved into a fully international

  • Putting permafrost in the classroom

    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

  • Permafrost

    the permafrost – with a host of grave consequences. Typical permafrost landscape in Yukon, Canada (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) What does permafrost look like? Some landscapes in the permafrost regions [...] Can permafrost only be found on land? How deep does the permafrost go? To what depth does it thaw in summer? Why is thawing permafrost important for the climate? How much carbon does the permafrost contain [...] How fast is the permafrost thawing? Why are permafrost coasts increasingly collapsing? How is the thawing permafrost affecting people living in these regions? How is the thawing permafrost affecting economies

  • Lesson_Plan_Permafrost_in_the_Arctic_Nov2020.pdf

    Forever frozen? Permafrost in the Arctic In story 1 students receive basic knowledge about permafrost and the consequences of climate change for permafrost. The importance of permafrost research is explained [...] changed in the Arctic over the last decades? What is permafrost? How does thawing permafrost affect the Arctic environment? How does thawing permafrost affect Arctic infrastructure? The main goal of this [...] and learn about permafrost in the Arctic and the effect of degrading permafrost on the Arctic environment. The focus lies on the complex interactions between men, nature and permafrost and resulting conflicts

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  • Permafrost Long-term Observatories

    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

  • Permafrost Resources

    the subject of permafrost tell stories about living and working on and with permafrost. This series of videos with comics and animations explains what permafrost is what effect permafrost thaw has on the [...] science and wrote a eulogy for permafrost for the year 2322, in which she looks back at how we treated or rather neglected permafrost over the past 300 years. CT scan of a permafrost core Analysis Videos The [...] Brandenburg. Degradation of cold ice-rich permafrost: How do ice-rich permafrost respond to a warming climate? Online Presentation This presentation is part of the Permafrost Collaboration Team of the IARPC and

  • Permafrost Region Greenhouse Gases

    Permafrost Region Greenhouse Gases Profile Climate change affects many northern ecosystems such as wetlands, peatlands and permafrost soils, which store a lot of carbon and nitrogen in organic matter. [...] peatlands, wetlands, and permafrost soils. Our projects focus on carbon and nitrogen interactions, cold-season biogeochemical processes, methane emissions from northern wetlands, and permafrost dynamics in northern [...] published a paper with the title: Predicted vulnerability of carbon in permafrost peatlands with future climate change and permafrost thaw in Western Canada doi.org/10.1029/2020JG005872 12 March

  • Permafrost Outreach

    making permafrost visible. Permafrost Change What are the effects of a warmer climate on permafrost? Find out more The sound of data Art and Science, an enhancing connection. Find out more Permafrost Resources [...] Why does permafrost matter? illustration of permafrost thaw and climate change during the Long Night of Sciences (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Currently we see glaciers melting and observe how sea ice [...] mostly unrecognized. Creating awareness for the processes of permafrost thaw, is our motivation. We want to show what happens, when permafrost thaws - what it means to ecosystems and people living in the

  • Permafrost Remote Sensing

    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

  • Permafrost Coasts

    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