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  • Ten students – one goal

    Ten students – one goal

    Musk ox grazing in the morning fog.

    The Arctic Portal, together with Page21 project is happy to promote another outreach product on permafrost research.

    The video presents the Ph.D course that took place in Zackenberg, North – East Greenland.
    The movie shows the fieldwork of ten young permafrost researchers from four Nordic Universities who set out to remote Zackenberg valley at 74 ° N in NE-Greenland.

    The students participate in a PhD course entitled AG 833 “High-Arctic Permafrost landscape dynamics in Svalbard and NE-Greenland”.

    Goal of this course is to better understand the landscape history and to link present and future periglacial processes with carbon and nitrogen dynamics at two high-Arctic sites: Zackenberg valley in NE-Greenland and Svalbard.

    AG 833 is organized by the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), Norway, and the Center for Permafrost (CENPERM) at the University of Copenhagen, financially supported by Perma-Nordnet of NORDEN, a project as part of the “Nordic Ministerial Council” Arctic collaboration program in Norway.

  • New series of PAGE21 live blogs

    New series of PAGE21 live blogs

    Stefanie and Young Sound Fjord in the background Kjersti Gisnås

    PAGE21 young researchers have just started their fall season of permafrost investigation in remote areas, located in the northern hemisphere. So far we have received interesting writings from Samoylov and Zackenberg, located in North – East Greenland.

    While collecting data on permafrost temperature, CO2 and CH4 fluxes, delegates from all the research stations, explain the particularity of the research done at each site. What is more they describe adventures, dangers and exciting daily life in remote Arctic locations.

    PAGE21 Blogs are available for the public and can be accessed here.

    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.

    Sources

    PAGE21