PACES_Programme_Proposal_AWI_GKSS.pdf

from terrestrial permafrost to the atmosphere. • Quantification of gas hydrates occurring in shallow coastal and offshore permafrost and potential methane liberation due to permafrost degradation • Functional [...] WP 5 “The role of degrading permafrost and carbon turnover in the coastal, shelf and deep sea environment” focuses on effects of changes in specific Arctic areas on permafrost systems in terrestrial, coastal [...] system. Considerable amounts of methane are stored in permafrost and sediments of the Arctic coastal margin. Gas hydrates in landside and offshore permafrost as well as pockmarks, seeps, mud volcanoes or gas

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AWI-CentreReview-2011_final.pdf

between the AWI Potsdam permafrost research group and several Russian permafrost research groups and institutions is exemplary. One of the very important achievements of the permafrost research group is the [...] Overall, the quality of AWI’s ocean research is excellent. A significant fraction of research on permafrost is conducted at the Potsdam division of AWI, and the group is ranked as the first in Europe and [...] when it comes to research methods, for example in observing greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost. With a unique array of measurement platforms, high-resolution modelling capabilities, and a d

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Minutes_32nd_SAB_meeting.pdf

Physics Dr. Catherine Ritz (Grenoble / France) ice sheet modelling Permafrost Prof. Dr. Vladimir Romanovsky (Fairbanks, Alaska, US) permafrost 5 Experts in the respective field relevant for the evaluation and [...] Dr. Eva-Maria Pfeiffer Universität Hamburg, Institut für Bodenkunde soil science with focus on permafrost 2 Prof. Dr. Martin Claußen Direktor, Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie meteorology, coupled

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MAZ_20150211.pdf

Konzert- event mit Mehrwert für die Wissen- schaftslandschaft kommt. MEIN PROJEKT D as Abtauen von Permafrost- Böden steht eigentlich am Ende eines Prozesses, während dessen sich dauerhaft gefrorener Untergrund [...] in Kombi- nation mit Vor-Ort-Messungen bei Expeditionen Rückschlüsse auf die Anfälligkeit des Permafrosts gegenüber natürlichen Einflüssen oder menschlicher Aktivität auf das fragile Gleichgewicht mit [...] die Hoch- schule Zittau/Görlitz. Seit Dezember 2012 ist er Präsident der FH Potsdam. Prognose zum Permafrost Der gebürtige Berliner Hasso Plattner (Jahrgang 1944) gründete nach dem Studium der Nachrichtentechnik

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First UNEP Permafrost Report relies on expertise of the Alfred Wegener Institute

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Environmental Prize for Permafrost Researcher

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Rising permafrost temperatures raise emission of the climate gas methane

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International Honour for Permafrost Research in Potsdam - The International Permafrost Association elects Prof. Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten as its New President

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

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Surprising climate balance: In the long term lakes in permafrost areas have sequestered more greenhouse gas from the atmosphere than they released during their formation

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