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PAGE21 young researchers at EGU 2014
(Photo: Elin Högström) Barbara Widhalm, Anna-Maria Trofaier (TUW) and Leena-Kaisa Virtanen (AWI).The EGU conference started yesterday here in Vienna, Austria. EGU, the European Geosciences Union, is Europe's premier geosciences union, dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the geosciences and the planetary and space sciences for the benefit of humanity, worldwide.
There is the EGU blog itself (click here to access the blog), but we also want to write about the conference from a permafrost scientists perspective. More precisely, from a PAGE21 young researcher perspective.
Monday morning started with The Permafrost open session, where Julia Boike and Hugues Lantuit from PAGE21 were conveners.
(Photo: Jörg Schnecker) Poster session, APECS Austria opening Later the same morning, the session Assessing the effects of global warming on permafrost degradation - contributions from field studies, remote sensing and modelling, was also successfully lead by Annett Bartsch and Reginald Muskett.
Many of the PAGE21 sites had been investigated in the studies presented at this session. Among others, Bengxi Li gave a talk about small-scale collapse of shrub patches in Kytalik and John Connolly presented a study of permafrost thaw of peatland in the proximity of Abisko.
Apart from the EGU there was the opening of the APECS Austria this same week, offering a couple of opening talks, a late evening poster session and fieldwork photo exhibition, as well as snacks and drinks.
(Photo: Jörg Schnecker) Hugues Lantuit at the poster session of APECS Austria. We have been involved in and very busy with the preparations of this opening event, and of course our working group (Barbara Widhalm, Anna-Maria Trofaier, Elin Högström, head: Annett Bartsch) were represented here in the form of a poster entitled Land surface Remote Sensing.
Many and various curious scientists as well as non-scientists came to see what the young polar scientists work with in Austria and we barely had place enough to sit in the room where the talks were given.
Among the PAGE21 partners participating at this event, Hugues Lantuit was spontaneously invited to say a few words about his experience with the APECS and PYRN, which of course was a great success and certainly motivating for all of us.
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Written by Elin