GC33G:
Permafrost Degradation and Its Interrelations with Physical, Socioecological, and Socioeconomical Processes II
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Session ID#: 15658
Session Description:
Permafrost dynamics have become a focal point of arctic research due to their wide-ranging impacts and feedback mechanisms within the Earth system. In addition to global climate regulation, ecosystem services performed by permafrost landscapes support subsistence practices (including human land-use), transportation corridors, and infrastructure that are of fundamental importance to northern communities. Thus, there is an urgent need to (1) enhance the understanding of permafrost resilience and degradation processes, and (2) combine physical, ecological, and social sciences in permafrost research.
This session highlights the impacts of permafrost dynamics and landscape change on northern environments and peoples. We invite studies about the implications of degrading permafrost for northern communities, infrastructure, wildlife, and the storage, vulnerability and release of carbon and nitrogen in permafrost. We welcome research based on field-process studies, monitoring programs, remote sensing and modeling approaches, as well as interdisciplinary efforts including traditional knowledge and local observations on this topic.
Primary Convener: Jens Strauss, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Permafrost Research Section, Potsdam, Germany
Conveners: Daniel Fortier, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, Gerald V Frost Jr, Alaska Biological Research, Inc., Fairbanks, AK, United States and Mathias Ulrich, University of Leipzig, Institute for Geography, Leipzig, Germany
Chairs: Daniel Fortier, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, Gerald V Frost Jr, Alaska Biological Research, Inc., Fairbanks, AK, United States, Jens Strauss, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Permafrost Research Section, Potsdam, Germany and Mathias Ulrich, University of Leipzig, Institute for Geography, Leipzig, Germany
OSPA Liaison: Jens Strauss, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Permafrost Research Section, Potsdam, Germany
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Donald A Walker1, Mikhail Z Kanevskiy2, Yuri Shur2, Martha K Raynolds1 and Marcel Buchhorn3, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)VITO, Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Mol, Belgium
Nicole Michelle Herman-Mercer1, Paul F Schuster2, Melinda J Laituri3, Kelly Elder4, Edda Andrea Mutter5, Maggie Massey5, Elli Matkin5 and Ryan Toohey6, (1)Geological Survey, Water Resources Mission Area, Lakewood, CO, United States, (2)USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (4)US Forest Service Fort Collins, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council, Anchorage, AK, United States, (6)USGS Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States
Melissa J Lafreniere1, Julien Fouche2, Jun-Jian Wang3, Myrna J Simpson3, Scott F Lamoureux1 and Meredith Galanter Hastings4, (1)Queen's University, Geography and Planning, Kingston, ON, Canada, (2)Université de Montréal, Département de géographie and Centre d’études nordiques, Montreal, QC, Canada, (3)University of Toronto, Environmental Chemistry, Toronto, ON, Canada, (4)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, and Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Providence, RI, United States
George Tanski1, Saskia Ruttor1, Hugues Lantuit2, Christian Knoblauch3, Jens Strauss4, Boris Radosavljevic1, Justine Lucille Ramage1 and Michael Fritz5, (1)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research, Permafrost Research Section, Potsdam, Germany, (3)University of Hamburg, Institute of Soil Science, Hamburg, Germany, (4)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Permafrost Research Section, Potsdam, Germany, (5)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany
Frank Günther, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, Guido Grosse, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany, Benjamin M Jones, USGS Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK, United States, Lutz Schirrmeister, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Periglacial Research Unit, Potsdam, Germany, Vladimir E Romanovsky, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Viktor Kunitsky, Melnikov Permafrost Institute SB RAS, Yakutsk, Russia
Louise Melanie Farquharson, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute Permafrost Laboratory, Fairbanks, United States, Vladimir E Romanovsky, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, William Cable, Alfred Wegener Institute, Potsdam, Germany and Donald A Walker, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States
William Cable, Alfred Wegener Institute, Potsdam, Germany, Vladimir E Romanovsky, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Robert Busey, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Anna K Liljedahl1, Julia Boike2, Ronald P Daanen3, Aleksandr N Fedorov4, Gerald V Frost Jr5, Guido Grosse6, Larry D Hinzman7, Yoshihiro Iijima8, Janet C Jorgenson9, Nadya Matveyeva10, Marius Necsoiu11, Martha K Raynolds12, Vladimir E Romanovsky13, Jörg Schulla14, Ken D Tape7, Donald A Walker12, Cathy Jean Wilson15, Hironori Yabuki16 and Donatella Zona17, (1)Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States, (2)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, (3)DGGS, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (4)Melnikov Permafrost Institute SB RAS, Yakutsk, Russia, (5)Alaska Biological Research, Inc., Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Permafrost Research Section, Potsdam, Germany, (7)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (8)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (9)Organization Not Listed, Alaska Ecoscience, Washington, DC, United States, (10)Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, (11)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (12)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (13)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (14)Self Employed, Zurich, Switzerland, (15)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (16)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama-city, Japan, (17)San Diego State University, Department of Biology, San Diego, United States
