Work On The Shared Arctic Variable On Permafrost – Living On Frozen Ground Continues
Ilkka Matero from Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System (SIOS) presented Arctic PASSION’s progress on co-development of the Shared Arctic Variable (SAV) on permafrost in the workshop on “Longyearbyen permafrost activities” in March 15-16, 2023. Discussions in this workshop helped to identify new perspectives to gathering permafrost-related knowledge from different communities in Svalbard, and to initiate…
Read MorePreliminary Tool To Explore Changing Arctic Permafrost Regions
Introducing the first preliminary tool to explore Arctic permafrost region disturbances and landcover changes at 30 m resolution developed within CCI Permafrost, Permafrost Discovery Gateway, and Arctic PASSION. You can access the permafrost tool via this link. After entering the portal, you will see that the tool uses the time period between 2000 and 2019.…
Read MoreDr. Josefine Lenz Awarded For Science Communication On Permafrost
Dr. Josefine Lenz from the Alfred Wegener Institute – Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam has won the WISPoP – Potsdam Prize for Science Communication for the project “Permafrost in Transition”. The 1500 euro prize was awarded by the proWissen Potsdam association and the Potsdam Research Network Foundation. Josefine leads the Permafrost in Transition project, an outreach project aiming to…
Read MoreNew Gtn-P Strategy And Implementation Plan Published
The Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P) Secretariat at Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) proudly released their GTN-P Strategy and Implementation Plan for the years 2021 to 2024 this week. Image credit: Streletskiy, D., Noetzli, J., Smith, S.L., Vieira, G., Schoeneich, P., Hrbacek, F. and A.M. Irrgang (2021): Measurement Standards…
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