provision of natural resources. AWI focuses on understanding the rapid changes in Arctic-Boreal permafrost regions and their global impact. Topic 6: Marine and Polar Life How will global change impact marine

studies in the permafrost regions, which deal with the past and future fate of frozen ground, carbon cycling, coastal erosion, and changes in ecology (AWI Research Divisions: Permafrost Research and Polar [...] funding of 2.75 million euros for the operation of the Potsdam InnoLab for Arctic Research . Air, Permafrost, Vegetation and Climate of the Past These elements provide Potsdam's polar researchers with the

Contact Directorate's Office Dr Corinna Kanzog Helmholtz Junior Research Groups Observation of permafrost on Herschel Island (Photo: Boris Radosavljevic) With the Helmholtz Junior Research Groups, the

Contact Directorate's Office Dr Corinna Kanzog Helmholtz Junior Research Groups Observation of permafrost on Herschel Island (Photo: Boris Radosavljevic) With the Helmholtz Junior Research Groups, the

Industrial waste lurks in thousands of sites in the Arctic permafrost regions – some of it is highly toxic. If the permafrost thaws increasingly deeper due to the massive warming of the Arctic deeper and [...] is part of the joint project "ThinIce" (Thawing industrial legacies in the Arctic - a threat to permafrost ecosystems), which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research with 1.9

large-scale components of the Earth, like the ice sheets and ocean circulation, boreal forest and permafrost. We strive to increase our understanding of the relevant processes driving dynamics within these

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

Outreach Lesson Plan "Permafrost in the Arctic" The lesson plan “Permafrost in the Arctic” explores the subject of degrading permafrost and its effects on men and environment from different spatial and [...] 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 teaching material [...] investigate current permafrost research topics or explore the conflict of interests of different Arctic stakeholders. Lesson Plan Permafrost in the Arctic Living in the wild North The Permafrost Risk The Ocean

(Graphic: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Global warming and the thawing of permafrost not only lead to destabilization of the soil in the permafrost regions of the Arctic, but also to a tendency to increasingly delimit [...] risk assessment is therefore crucial from an economic as well as ecological point of view. The permafrost model CryoGrid, which has been further developed as part of PermaRisk, is intended to help predict

order to identify and quantify potential risks for ecosystems and infrastructure emerging from permafrost degradation. Many landforms throughout the Arctic such as thermokarst lakes, thermoerosion gullies [...] the Arctic. In remote and vast Arctic areas satellite and aerial imagery provide insights into permafrost thaw processes on a regional scale which we would not gain from measurements at the surface. Remote [...] sensing component of the project, therefore, addresses the following research questions: 1. How do permafrost erosion features respond to changes in meteorological conditions? 2. What are the factors controlling