• 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 Change

    Project "Permafrost Change" For most people, permafrost is a distant phenomenon that seems to have little to do with their own lives, making it hard for them to relate to. With the help of the resources [...] people have the chance to see, hear, touch and smell permafrost, thanks to original archaeological artefacts from the Ice Age and hands-on permafrost experimentation boxes. More over visitors can use a [...] virtual permafrost world. Lastly, ‘before-and-after’ lenticular images, together with video and audio recordings from expeditions to the Arctic, will help illustrate the thawing of the permafrost, and the

  • 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 Archives

    stages were the long-range periods of permafrost aggradation. Interglacial periods were characterized by extensive permafrost degradation. Circum-arctic Permafrost dynamics and Quaternary environmental [...] Permafrost Archives Development, stability and degradation of permafrost have strongly been connected with natural climate fluctuations of cold and warm periods during the Quaternary earth history of the [...] for three decades. Characteristics of frozen sediments and ice structure therein inform how the permafrost deposits have been formed and transformed. Ice wedges can say something about the composition of

  • Submarine Permafrost

    Profile submarine permafrost (Foto: Volker Rachold /AWI) (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) What is submarine permafrost? Subsea permafrost in the Arctic is generally relict terrestrial permafrost, inundated after [...] Why is it important? Submarine permafrost is similar to its terrestrial counterpart, but lies beneath the coastal seas. And as with terrestrial permafrost, subsea permafrost is a substantial reservoir and/or [...] of submarine permafrost and the influence of future climate system changes on submarine permafrost. Key lines of inquiry include: seasonal and interannual variability of sea floor permafrost boundary conditions

  • Permafrost

    arctic tundra is an unglaciated, treeless landscape characterized by the presence of continuous permafrost. The tundra is vegetated by low vegetation such as grass and sedges, herbs, little bushes, lichens [...] opportunity to receive information about the state of the tundra in large areas near real time. Permafrost in Greenland Geocoded TerraSAR-X scene of Zackenberg valley (© DLR 2013) (Photo: Alfred Wegener

  • Permafrost Research

    multiproxy analyses of permafrost and lacustrine records. Our Permafrost Section staff has diverse expertise and uses a wide range of methods. Methods for studying past permafrost conditions and environmental [...] environments and dynamics of permafrost landscapes Methods for studying the current and future state of permafrost: Continuous measurements of hydroclimatic data and permafrost temperatures Study of water [...] Lantuit Assistant Melanie Reinhardt Website Sebastian Laboor Stations Permafrost Data Permafrost Long-term Observatories In Focus - Permafrost Publications Expedition Reports

  • EUCOP II 2005

    Isotope and Geochemistry of Permafrost Permafrost Monitoring and Modelling in the Context of Global Change Coastal and Offshore Permafrost PA WG on Coastal and Offshore Permafrost, IPA-IASC project Arctic [...] Themes Conference Theme Organized in association with Permafrost Records of Past Climate and Environments IPA Antarctic Permafrost WG Permafrost Affected Soils, Microbiology and Trace Gas Releases IPA [...] and Environment Permafrost as Analog for Extraterrestrial Systems Hydrology and Sediment Fluxes in Permafrost Regions ESF project SEDIFLUX Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Isotopes in Permafrost Research PA WG

  • Research Focus

    Submarine Permafrost and coastal interaction Coordination: Dr. Paul Overduin Find out more Simulating erosion processes in permafrost landscapes Coordination: Dr. Moritz Langer Find out more Permafrost archives [...] Permafrost Region Greenhouse Gases Coordination: Dr. Claire Treat Find out more Energy and Water Fluxes in Permafrost landscapes Coordination: Prof. Dr. Julia Boike Find out more Erosion of the coasts [...] Dr. Hugues Lantuit Find out more Permafrost Remote Sensing Coordination: Prof. Dr. Guido Grosse Find out more Characterisation of organic matter in changing permafrost landscapes Coordination: Dr. Jens