• German Arctic Office to act as consultant to politics and industry

      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

    • European Research Council (ERC) funds Potsdam AWI researcher

      emissions of the greenhouse gases methane and nitrogen so high outside the vegetation periods in permafrost regions? How do the carbon and nitrogen cycles and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions differ

    • Underestimated Heat Storage

      quantity of heat stored on land, showing the distribution of land heat among the continental ground, permafrost soils, and inland water bodies. The calculations, published in Earth System Dynamics , show that

    • Siberian larch forests are still linked to the ice age

      Climate and Vegetation
      The Siberian permafrost regions include those areas of the Earth, which heat up very quickly in the course of climate change. Nevertheless, biologists are currently observing

    • UN Climate Change Conference

      decision-makers about the current state of science on climate-relevant permafrost issues, such as the predicted emissions from thawing permafrost. “Around 15 per cent of the land area in the northern hemisphere [...] ng in various events to contribute scientific insights to the negotiations. Permafrost-Climate Feedbacks & How is Permafrost Mapped from… With Hugues Lantuit & Fabian Seemann | 14.11.25 | Talk | 3:30 p [...] is and why it is so important. Find out more Interactive permafrost map This map shows how certain characteristics of the climate and permafrost have developed since 1800. Find out more Our experts on COP30

    • FluxWIN

      emissions in this project is also important for understanding how now-frozen soils will respond to permafrost thaw as soils that are always frozen shift to becoming seasonally or perennially thawed with increased

    • COLDSPOT

      bridge group between the Alfred-Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research ( Permafrost Research Section ), and the University of Hamburg . Team Dr. Carolina Voigt (Group lead) Dr. Friederike

    • As trainee

      Geosciences in Bremerhaven: Geophysics: Mechita Schmidt-Aursch Glaciology: Constance Oberdieck Permafrost: Melanie Reinhardt Polar Terrestrial Environmental Systems: Kristina Brenner Marine Geochemistry:

    • Methods for Arctic Lake Research

      reach remote lake sites. In summer we use helicopters, because the absence of roads on thawing permafrost does not allow the use of cars. Yakutia 2016 Bykovsky 2017 Chukotka 2018 Polar Terrestrial Env

    • Junior Groups

      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