The PAGE21 project has now been officially closed. The four years of research came to an end on October 31 2015, leaving only...
PAGE21 project was featured in a plenary session "Permafrost in the 21st century" at the 2015 Arctic Circle conference in Reykjavik,...
Time-lapse video from lake bank in Kytalyk in Russia
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The video is taken at a thaw (thermokarst) lake slightly west of the Kytalyk research site near Chokurdagh, in the Indigirka lowlands in northeastern Siberia in the summer 2012.
It is taken from a plateau of about 15 - 20 meters high, underlain by very ice-rich Pleistocene permafrost (70-90% volume of ice). This is eroded by wave action at the lake bank. The lake expands into the ridge in this way by melting of the permafrost. The steep slope at the bank causes material to slide in the lake.
What you see is blocks of tundra soil and mud sliding into the lake. The mud is created by melting of the permafrost. In particular at the top of the slopen, permafrost ice is exposed t the sun and releases lots of water by melting. This acts as a lubricating agent over which the blocks of soil slide downslope into the lake. To geomorphologists, this process is known as an active layer slide.
The pictures of the movie are taken every hour and the entire movie spans several weeks. It starts in mid-June, when the lake was still ice-covered. At the end the camera is toppling over into the mud. The clip video is prepared by Angela Gallagher and Ko van Huisteden from the Vrije Universitet in Amsterdam.
Images from the General Assembly 2012
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Collection of pictures from the Hamburg 2012 General Assembly can now be found in the PAGE21 Photo Gallery here on the website.
PAGE21 well presented in the German media during the General Assembly
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We are very happy to announce that the invitation of the PAGE21 coordination team to the German media in Hamburg was well taken and a group of local media representatives attended the open part of the PAGE21 2012 General Assembly on Wednesday, November 14.
A collection of press items from the General Assembly can be found at the project Press Centre. This section also stores previous press coverage.
PAGE21 signs Memorandum of Understanding with the Canadian ADAPT and Japanese GRENE TEA projects
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The PAGE21 Consortium was honoured with two external visits in this years General Assembly. Professor Dr. Warwick Vincent from University of Laval in Canada and leader of the Arctic Development and Adaptation to Permafrost in Transition - ADAPT project, and Dr. Atsuko Sugimoto from University of Hokkaido in Japan and Principal Investigator of the GRENE Arctic Climate Change Research project: Change in the terrestrial ecosystems of the pan-Arctic and effects on climate presented their research projects to 67 PAGE21 consortium members convened at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) campus in Hamburg last week.
The Arctic Development and Adaptation to Permafrost in Transition - ADAPT project aims to produce an 'Integrated Permafrost Systems Science' framework that will be used to help generate sustainable development and adaptation strategies for the North in the context of rapid socio-economic and climate change. It will generate a new Canadian vision of permafrost, by advancing fundamental new insights into permafrost as a coupled physical-biotic-human system as well as new conceptual understanding and quantitative models of permafrost as a biogeochemically reactive part of the planetary system. In addition it will create new mechanistic models of permafrost geophysical dynamics that can be used to improve Northern development and adaptation strategies.
The GRENE-TEA Change in the terrestrial ecosystems of the pan-Arctic and effects on climate project aims to clarify the role and function of the Arctic terrestrial system in the climate system and assess the influence of changes in the Arctic on a global scale. The project will conduct field observations on frozen soil, vegetation, production of ecosystems, carbon storage, snow cover and albedo as well as methane emission along with other measurements to develop terrestrial system models that can reproduce realistic changes in the thawing of frozen soil, vegetation, and greenhouse gas emissions
Following the presentations, Memorandums of Understanding were signed between the PAGE21 project and the Japanese and Canadian project respectifully to enhance synergies within climate change and especially permafrost research.
PAGE21 General Assembly 2012 closing up
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The PAGE21 General Assembly 2012 is closing up today at noon after very intensive and productive discussions within work package meetings and breakout sessions.
One of the issues very much on everybodys lips is the access to data and the overall data management within the project itself as well as across projects and continents.
Other issue very much emphasized in the PAGE21 project is the close cooperation of the "field scientists" collecting and anaysing the permafrost and the climate modelling scientists to develop and enhance the global climate models.
Overall, the project is on a very good path to fulfill its objectives and the consortium is determined to continue the good work.
Next PAGE21 General Assembly will be held in Abisko in Northern Sweden from 23. - 27. September 2013 in conjunction with the FP7 funded INTERACT project. International media representatives as well as Young Researchers will be especially invited to this meeting.