Interview: PAGE21 project

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Created on Thursday, 24 May 2012 11:00

Prof. Dr. Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten, explicates in this sincere video interview the role and expected impacts of the PAGE21 project on global climate research. 

Prof. Dr. Hubberten from Alfred Wegener Institute of Marine and Polar Science is the coordinator of the PAGE21 project.

He is a Professor for Isotope Geology at the Potsdam University and head of the AWI Research Unit Potsdam with the Section of Periglacial Research. He built up a permafrost research team at AWI Potsdam, which is today held in internationally high esteem. 

He is also the president of the International Permafrost Association (IPA).

 

Interview: What is Permafrost?

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Created on Thursday, 24 May 2012 10:26

Though permafrost is not new phenomenon in global geology, it is just now starting to gain impetus within climate change research. In this interview Dr. Hugues Lantuit explains what permafrost is and how it is impacted by the warming climate. The interview was recorded at the IPY 2012 Montreal Conference.

 

Postdoctoral position on high latitude permafrost modeling in Earth System model

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Created on Friday, 04 May 2012 10:31

University of Exeter in UK is looking to fill a postdoctoral position to work within the EU/FP7  PAGE21 project on high latitude permafrost modelling in Earth System model.

The objective is to understand and quantify the vulnerability of permafrost environments to a changing global climate, and to investigate the feedback mechanisms associated with increasing greenhouse gas emissions from permafrost zones. The work will be done in close collaboration with the MetOffice group as well as with project partners (MPI, Germany and CNRS, France).

More information is available on the University of Exeter website: https://jobs.exeter.ac.uk/

Job reference R11127

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Permafrost research in forefront at the IPY 2012

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Created on Thursday, 03 May 2012 21:02

Stuttgarter Zeitung - The Nenets, reindeer herders in Siberia, have to find new trails and pastures, as the ground thaws and wets and pipelines break, because they no longer stand on solid ground as the permafrost in the Arctic thaws releasing climate damaging greenhouse gases. "This development has significant implications in many areas," says Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten, the president of the International Permafrost Association and head of periglacial research at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). 

Just a few years ago, the interest in the developments occurring in the permafrost regions was low. The International Polar Year 2007-2008, however, markerd a change as the permafrost research was one of the subject matters in focus. At the "International Polar Year 2012"conference, taking place in Montreal, the auditoriums hosting permafrost presentations were crowded. "We have succeeded in pointing out the importance the permafrost has," says Hubberten. "We had never been on an international conference with such a strong interest in permafrost," says his colleague AWI-Hugues Lantuit. "Spectacular changes"

To read the whole article, published in Stuttgarter Zeitung 26 April 2012, please follow this link 

Permafrost drilling to start in Svalbard

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Created on Monday, 26 March 2012 13:35

A large PAGE21 permafrost drilling campaign is starting today, 26 March, in Adventdalen, led by the University Centre in Svalbard. "During 10 days we aim to collect between 60 and 100 m of permafrost cores from ice-wedge polygons, pingos and solifluction sheets in Adventdalen. In Svalbard, we have so far only been able to obtain hand drilled permafrost cores down typically 2 m into the permafrost top. However, with the combination of funding from PAGE21 and from a collaboration project with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, called SVALASKA, we have been able to buy a specially designed hydraulic drill rig, which is able to collect cores from the permafrost in both sediments and bedrock down to potentially 50 m depth.", says Hanne Christiansen, Professor in physical geography and leader of the UNIS PAGE21 project.

To read the article at the UNIS webpage, please click HERE