In addition to introduce the specific research each of the young researchers are working on, the 20 PAGE21 PhD students and Post-Doctoral researchers are working on illustrations covering a wide range of issues relevant for permafrost research. Images on coring, modeling as well as different processes are been drafted and will be fully worked during next few months to illustrate the work being done within the project. These illustrations will be widely used for dissemination purposes within the project.

PAGE21 Postdoctoral researcher Gustaf Hugelius from Stockholm University is visiting Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) for the next two weeks. His research focus is the study of how much organic carbon is stored in permafrost soils. "To better understand the interactions between carbon cycling and permafrost thaw, we need to have a good idea of how much carbon is currently frozen in permafrost and where in the landscape it is stored." says Gustav. "I am working with large databases covering the whole circumarctic, but also with high-resolution local scale studies from different Arctic regions."

He is visiting Alfred Wegener Institute to learn more about research activities there, to discuss and plan future cooperation and to make plans for coming field campaigns in Russia within the PAGE21 project.

Gustaf started working as a Researcher within the PAGE21 project in November 2011 and is involved in Work package 3 "Carbon and nitrogen pools in permafrost terrain; potential mobilization and feedback mechanisms following permafrost thawing and collapse".

He will talk about his research on Wednesday, October 17 at 10.30 at AWI Potsdam, A43 in the lecture room. The topic of his presentation will be "Quantity of soil organic matter in permafrost terrain: perspectives on upscaling and comparisons across scales".