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  • PAGE21 General Assembly has started

    PAGE21 General Assembly has started

    Participants of PAGE21 General Assembly gathered in Abisko, northern Sweden

    Today, Monday the 23rd of September, participants of PAGE21 General Assembly have been officially welcomed in Abisko Research Station.

    The opening session was held by Margarieta Johansson who described general features of conference venue.

    Financial management, reporting, communication and outreach strategies have been presented by Leena – Kaisa Viitanen, representative from Alfred Wagener Institute in Germany and Magdalena Tomasik from project´s Icelandic partner – Arctic Portal.

    Jean – Pierre Lanckman and Boris Biskaborn presented principles of earth system science and permafrost database that will be launched in March 2014.

    Permafrost scientists and administrative representatives will cooperate on development of the project during the next two days.

  • PAGE21 researchers meet in Abisko

    PAGE21 researchers meet in Abisko

    PAGE21 young researchers meet in Abisko, northern Sweden

    Today, Sunday the 22nd of September, permafrost young researchers gathered in Abisko during the 2nd Page21 General Assembly Young Researchers workshop.

    Scientists are being part of PAGE21 project which is is a Large-scale integrating collaborative project under the ENV call topic “Vulnerability of Arctic permafrost to climate change and implications for global GHG emissions and future climate” (ENV.2011.1.1.3-1) coordinated by Professor Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten from AWI.

    Young researchers discussed several topics to include protocols and data management, general challenges in permafrost research as well as cooperation with Page21´s Canadian partner – ADAPT.

    Presentation on project´s communication and outreach strategies was given to inform about great success of this summer´s blogs that were written by young researchers during their work in the Arctic field sites.

    Blog have received over 10 000 entries during few months and the number is still growing.
    Arctic Portal who is hosting PAGE21 website and administrating Work Package 1: ´´Communication and Outreach´´ decided to keep on with blogs project to bring even more awareness to important permafrost research.

    At the beginning of next month both partners will also start new series of Young Researchers Profiles in order to bring more recognition to scientists committed to the project.

    After indoor part of the workshop, group of scientists attended field exercises.

    Young scientists will attend PAGE21 General Assembly that starts tomorrow and lasts until Tuesday.

  • PAGE21 General Assembly decided

    PAGE21 General Assembly decided

    Abisko scientific research station

    The PAGE21 General Assembly date and venue has been decided. The 2nd PAGE21 General Assembly will take place 23 – 24 September 2013 at the Abisko Scientific Research Station in Sweden. In addition to the General Assembly, a joint Media Event with the FP7 project INTERACTwill be organized on 25 September 2013.

    A WP4 workshop as well as a Young Researcher workshop for PAGE21 and ADAPT PhD students and Post Doctorates are planned on 21 and 22 September respectively.

    PAGE21 Project aims to understand and quantify the vulnerability of permafrost environments to a changing global climate, and to investigate the feedback mechanisms associated with increasing greenhouse gas emissions from permafrost zones.

    This research will make use of a unique set of Arctic permafrost investigations performed at stations that span the full range of Arctic bioclimatic zones. The project will bring together the best European permafrost researchers and eminent scientists from Canada, Russia, the USA, and Japan.

    The PAGE21 is a Large-scale integrating collaborative project under the ENV call topic “Vulnerability of Arctic permafrost to climate change and implications for global GHG emissions and future climate” (ENV.2011.1.1.3-1) coordinated by Professor Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten from AWI.

    Click here to read more about the project.

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