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Permafrost Young Researchers Workshop at the EUCOP 4 in Evora Portugal
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The PYRW participants. Photo: Michael Fritz.Permafrost Young Researchers Workshop (PYRW) was organized on Wednesday June 19, just prior to the 4th European Conference of Permafrost, which currently going on in Evora Portugal.
The organization of the workshop was a joint effort of Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN), Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) and the young researcher representatives of the two projects PAGE21 (Changing Permafrost in the Arctic and its Global Effects in the 21st Century) and ADAPT (Arctic Development and Adaptation to Permafrost in Transition).
The workshop organizers: Matthias Siewert, Elin Högström, Ylva Sjöberg, Julie Lepage, Frédéric Bouchard, Anne Morgernstern, Bethany Deshpande, Alexander Nieuwendam, Ashley Rudy, Michael Fritz, Michel Paquette and Marc Oliva. Stefanie Weege is missing from the picture. Photo: Leena-Kaisa Viitanen.The workshop preparation started already a year ago with 12 organizing young scientists from 6 different countries and and as financially supported by International Permafrost Association (IPA), Climate and Cryosphere (CliC), International Arctic Science Comittee (IASC) and Bolin Centre for Climate Research in Sweden.
Student support was provided by both PAGE21 and ADAPT projects, both of which have a very active young researcher body within the projects.
The main aim of the workshop was to build interdisciplinary knowledge on how the Arctic and Antarctic permafrost regions play a key role in the Earth System and to give each participant a more overarching view on the regions beyond disciplinary research questions.
The workshop had 17 invited mentors and guest scientists, 3 keynote presentations, 12 breakout sessions and an ICARP III - 3rd International Conference on Arctic Research Planning activity - in a World Café format in which the young researchers participated in formulating the most topical future permafrost research questions.
At the end of the workshop a PYRN assembly selected new PYRN Executive Committee, which will take on the planning of the permafrost YR activities, and especially the YR activities at the 11th ICOP in Potsdam, Germany in 2016 with a lot of enthusiasm.
