Permafrost soil is possible source of abrupt rise in greenhouse gases at end of last ice age

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Permafrost researcher Hubberten honored for lifetime achievement

Award 2024 from the International Permafrost Association (IPA) to honor his outstanding lifelong commitment and accomplishments in permafrost research and for the permafrost research community.

Permafrost contains more nitrogen than previously assumed

New Study
As a result of global warming, permafrost regions around the world are thawing now. As they do, climate-relevant greenhouse gases containing carbon (carbon dioxide, methane) and nitrogen (nitrous [...] climate forecasts. Whereas substantial research has been conducted on the carbon reservoirs in permafrost, we still know comparatively little about nitrogen. A team of experts led by the Alfred Wegener

Permafrost comics awarded

AWI scientist Michael Fritz receives this year's Potsdam Prize for Science Communication for the project "Es taut!: Frozen Ground Cartoons". The comics were created in cooperation with artists.

Permafrost Thaw

Permafrost Thaw Action Group The Permafrost Thaw Action Group was part of the Terrestrial Multidisciplinary distributed Observatories for the Study of Arctic Connections (T-MOSAiC). Together with MOSAiC [...] d collection of field data for quantifying permafrost thaw. It addresses the need for integrated observations of multiple connected components of permafrost landscapes, including soils, snow, and vegetation [...] vegetation. Illustration of the standarized permafrost monitoring protocol. The five spheres (snow, water, permafrost, vegetation and soil) with the associated parameters, measurement modes, and observation

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 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

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 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