Blog Vorkuta/ Seida 2012: Setting up the Site

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Created on Monday, 09 July 2012 07:13

The latest entry from the field site Vorkuta/ Seida is online!

Field Season = Blog season! Reports from Russian + Canadian field sites

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Created on Monday, 02 July 2012 11:30

The field season started and the first two teams already began reporting from their expeditions!

Following the Vorkuta/Seida blog from the University of Finland Team here (or with clicking the Blog section at this page).

The German blog "Tundra Stories" (expedition from AWI to Samoylov in Russia) starts also today on Monday, July 2. The German newspaper DIE ZEIT published today a portrait "Für die Masterarbeit nach Sibirien" of the Master student Max Heikenfeld, who will be the main blogger from Samoylov. Max supports the reseachers in their field work and will collect data for his master thesis during the expedition.

Enjoy reading!

TICOP in Salekhard, Russia

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Created on Wednesday, 27 June 2012 11:39

The Tenth International Conference on Permafrost (TICOP) is taking place in Salekhard, Yamal-Nenets autonomous district in the Russian Federation 24 - 29 June. The conference started on Sunday, June 24, with a crossing the arctic circle ceremony and a welcome reception for all participants in the evening.

The project PAGE21 was presented by the project manager Melanie Dahms on Monday afternoon in the session "Permafrost and society".

The following PAGE21 partners are present at the conference:
From the coordinating institution the project coordinator Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten, Hugues Lantuit and Melanie Dahms from the Project Management Team as well as Moritz Langer (WP2 + WP4), Birgit Heim (WP5) and Kirsten Elger (WP8) from AWI. The partner TUW is presented by Annett Bartsch (WP 5 Leader),Hanne Christiansen from UNIS (WP2 leader) and the PhD students Stefanie Haertel and Jordan Mertes as well as the WP4 Leader Ko van Huissteden are there. From the side of the modeller Eleanor Burke (METO) participates and from Scientific Advisory Board Vlad Romanovsky from the University of Alaska Fairbanks is in Salekhard. A joint dinner on Thursday, June 28, is planned for the partners to get to know each other better and to discuss current project issues and upcoming events (such as the General Assembly in Hamburg).

Blogs from field sites

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Created on Wednesday, 27 June 2012 09:49

Summer is field season time as well as time for blogging from the sites.
We are very happy that there will be three blogs this summer coming from the fields sites Samoylov and Seida/Vorkuta in Russia as well as Herschel Island in Canada in connection with the PAGE21 project.

A research team from AWI will be from July 3 until September 5 at Samoylov in Russia and will report from the expedition in the "Tundra stories". The blog will be in German and starts on Monday July 2 at http://www.awi.de/de/go/Tundra-Stories.

The two other blogs will be in English. The PAGE21 PhD student Stefanie Weege from AWI will blog from Herschel Island in Canada, starting in mid of July.
A group of five reserachers from the University of Eastern Finland has already begun their expedition to Vorkuta/ Seida in North-West Russia on Tuesday, June 26 with their first blog entries.

You can follow the blogs here through our PAGE21 website - just click blog button here below.

The image here on the left is taken by Christina Biasi (University of eastern Finland). It is from the railway station in Kuopio in Finland, taken yesterday, when the UEF field group was getting ready for their journey to Seida/Vorkuta in Russia.

PAGE21 Data management mini workshop

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Created on Tuesday, 19 June 2012 15:03

Kirsten Elger from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Division of Geosciences and Periglacial Research is visiting the Arctic Portal in Akureyri to discuss PAGE21 data management objectives. 

Writing and following a data management plan is the principle pre-requisite for complying with current policy of PAGE21 Project. There is no one-fits-all recipe for a data management plan, says Jean-Pierre Lanckman, the Arctic Portal data manager who recently joined the team in Akureyri. It is important to strike the balance between putting a data at risk with too few controls and creating necessary administrative procedures. Within the payday loans delaware project a deliverable within WP 8 "Data mining, data management and data dissemination" needs to be created until October 2012.

It is important to understand the scope of data management, what the objectives are and what practices are required, to be able to easily plan and organize the relevant information.

Elger and Lanckman will spend next few days for defining those objectives for PAGE21. Despite hard work and long hours, they have managed to look around the North-East Iceland and visited among other places Goðafoss waterfall and Jarðböð, a Myvatn located nature baths.