• Teaching and Education

    and property of permafrost and can reflect as well as analyze them. Students will be able to describe the landscape development of permafrost regions and develop scenarios of how permafrost has changed in [...] how permafrost regions change in a rapidly warming Arctic and what the local to global feedbacks are. The students will learn about Arctic climate change, the cryosphere, and permafrost; Permafrost landscapes [...] into the formation, structure and change of permafrost landscapes. Basic knowledge of the material and substance turnover during thawing and freezing of permafrost soils is provided. The relationship between

  • Labs

    Upscaling of permafrost region field measurements with remote sensing Generating permafrost remote sensing datasets suitable for model parametrization and validation Making geospatial permafrost datasets available [...] and other permafrost-region disturbance dynamics Mapping periglacial geomorphology, land surface changes, and surface deformation Advancing machine learning and deep learning for permafrost region remote [...] Laboratories Sedimentology Aim: Study of transport and accumulation processes of permafrost-related deposits Classification of sediment sequences in general Parameters: Sediment structure description

  • ICOP 2016

    and develop new project ideas and collaborations in permafrost research and permafrost engineering. The theme of the conference was "Exploring Permafrost in a Future Earth". Konferenz Abstracts Konferenzbericht [...] 11th International Conference on Permafrost The 11th International Permafrost Conference (ICOP 2016) took place in Potsdam from 20-24 June 2016. 739 participants from more than 36 nations attended the

  • UndercoverEisAgenten

    sea ice, thawing of permafrost is mostly taking place in the hidden depths of the ground. By causing profound ecological upheaval and destabilizing infrastructure, thawing permafrost has a direct impact [...] Landscapes is indicated by altering polygonal structures and permafrost thaw. Polygons in Northwest Canada indicating the presence and state of permafrost City of Aklavik in the Mackenzie Delta, September 2022 [...] Education and Research (BMBF) is gathering reliable and up-to-date data on the state and rate of permafrost thaw to provide better insights on landscape disturbances and the impact on people living in the

  • 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 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

  • ICRSS

    of glaciers and ice sheets Floating Ice: sea, river, and lake ice Seasonal snow cover Changing permafrost Polar coastlines Oceanography of polar seas Hydrology of inland waters Polar land cover and land

  • Modelling

    needleleaf classes and permafrost extent after Kotlyakov and Khromova: Land Resources of Russia – Maps of Permafrost and Ground Ice, Version 1, NSIDC 2002) Boreal forests in permafrost regions make up around [...] vegetation – permafrost dynamics can have a potentially high impact on the numerous feedback mechanisms between the two ecosystem components. Increased soil carbon release from thawing permafrost through the [...] to understand how the interactions between the vegetation, permafrost and the atmosphere stabilize the forests and the underlying permafrost. A one-dimensional land surface model (CryoGrid) is adapted

  • Peta-Carb

    deep permafrost soil carbon pools to rapid thaw and resulting impacts. The three research topics were: (1) Systematic measurement of rapid permafrost thaw, (2) Characterization of deep permafrost SOC stocks [...] PETA-CARB wordle (Graphic: Alfred Wegener Institut) What is Permafrost? Carbon in Permafrost Arctic landscapes, especially those underlain by permafrost, are threatened by climate warming and may degrade in [...] Wegener Institut) Arctic permafrost deposits are estimated to freeze-lock as much carbon in the atmosphere, allowing a potentially significant climate warming feedback loop when permafrost thaws and carbon is

  • AWIPEV Arctic Research Base

    Abromeit, Expedition Reporter for GEO Magazine, out at the Bayelva Permafrost Long-Term Observatory to collect data from the permafrost measuring instrument. Charlotte Havermans researcher from Alfred- [...] AWIPEV was formerly the Koldewey Station. Julia Boike, permafrost researcher, and Bill Cable, engineer, check instruments at the Bayelva long-term permafrost observatory. Bettina Haupt, station leader, launches [...] radiation and increasing ocean acidification. The geosciences, on the other hand, focus on changes in permafrost soils and glacier systems. Current Data AWI scientists carry out regular measurements. These are