In the poster session for Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia Shamil Maksyutov presented results for mapping wetland and forest landscapes in Siberia with Landsat data in which the Page 21 site Yakutsk was featured.

 

Reginald Muskett demonstrated his findings on ICESat-Derived Elevation Changes on the Lena Delta and Laptev Sea which indicate that ICESat GLAS (Geoscience Laser Altimeter System) is capable of detection of tide fluxes of ice covered coastal rivers and with a small error range is suitable for investigations of active-layer and permafrost dynamics associated with seasonal freezing (heave) and thawing (subsidence) using repeat-location profiles.

 

Our APRI working group (head: Annett Bartsch) also presented some results of the COLD Yamal project showing the characterization of tundra lake margins with SAR-data.

 

(Photo: Barbara Widhalm) Shamil Maksyutov's poster presentationWe would also like to mention the open session on remote sensing applications in hydrology and climate studies led by Annett Bartsch, where Anna-Maria Trofaier kindly agreed to fill in and on short notice held a presentation on seasonal variability of lake extents.

 

 

Juri Palmtag presented the results of fieldwork conducted by him and the SU working group (Hugelius, Kuhry) in Zackenberg, Cherski and Taimyr - all sites with continuous permafrost. The topic was landscape-level soil profile inventories of soil organic matter, with emphasis on cryoturbation.

 

There were a number of short courses as well, which was optimal for Young Reaserchers: "Successful fieldwork - An APECS and PYRN panel discussion" took place on tuesday, "Workshop on methods and techniques to study permafrost in a climate change scenario" and "Short course on soil water measurements", were some of them.

 

 

Written by Barbara & Elín