17.11
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- Written by Susanna Gartler, University of Vienna
Multidisciplinary group of Nunataryuk researchers headed to Ilulissat Greenland in September to conduct the long waited field work.
01.11
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- Written by Leena-Kaisa Viitanen
Permafrost will be highlly visible at the COP26 via the Cryosphere Pavilion. Events can be followed live via social media channels.
29.10
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- Written by Leena-Kaisa Viitanen
New study illustrates the impact of permafrost degradation on the physical environment, hunting and harvesting, housing, and the economy in Northwest Greenland.
28.10
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- Written by Leena-Kaisa Viitanen
New Report details how a combination of melting polar ice sheets, vanishing glaciers, and thawing permafrost will have rapid, irreversible, and disastrous effects on the Earth’s population.
26.10
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- Written by Leena-Kaisa Viitanen
Newly accepted paper introduces the first pan-arctic satellite-based record of expanding infrastructure and anthropogenic impacts along all permafrost affected coasts.
20.10
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- Written by Leena-Kaisa Viitanen
The European Commission and the European External Action Service unveiled the new EU policy for the Arctic.
14.10
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- Written by Michael Fritz, Alfred Wegener Institute
Our scientific work was actually already finished. And everyone just wanted to sleep. But then THE opportunity arose...
12.10
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- Written by Michael Fritz, Alfred Wegener Institute
Sixteen hours of daylight. This was the beginning of our trip. We have now arrived at about nine hours. As quickly as an arctic summer begins, it is also over again. However, this does not detract from the work on board.
29.09
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- Written by Michael Fritz, Alfred Wegener Institute
It took us seven days to reach our first station. We are interested in carbon, sediment and nutrient dynamics on the Beaufort Shelf. That’s why we needed to wait a bit until we finally went to where the Northwest Passage ends.
27.09
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- Written by Michael Fritz, Alfred Wegener Institute
Since 09 September we are at sea. A charter flight with about 35 crew members and the same number of scientists brought us from Québec City to Resolute Bay on Cornwallis Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
13.09
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- Written by Michael Fritz
It is not easy to tell you how many we are - I have not even tried to count. Since more than three years we work on this project and it will take even longer to work on all the data and samples we will bring back to our labs and offices and to our partners all over the world.
09.09
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- Written by Michael Fritz, Alfred Wegener Institute
After almost a 2-year hiatus from active research activities, our field campaigns are back on! This blog series will take you to the Canadian Arctic and onboard the CCGS Amundsen.
06.07
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- Written by Henrike Walther
A new study, led by a number of Nunataryuk researchers, shows that optical and radar remote sensing can be used to map ice frozen to the riverbed (bedfast ice) vs. ice, resting on top of the unfrozen water layer (floating or so-called serpentine ice) within the Arctic’s largest delta, the Lena River Delta.
05.07
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- Written by Henrike Walther
A first pan-Arctic assessment of dissolved organic carbon in lakes of the permafrost region is now published in Biogeosciences. Nunataryuk researcher and project coordination team member Michael Fritz from AWI in Potsdam contributed to this study with data from one of the Nunataryuk focal areas.
23.06
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- Written by Henrike Walther
Nunataryuk researcher and project coordination team member Michael Fritz from AWI in Potsdam just published this study on paleo-ecology of the eastern Lena Delta in NE-Siberia in Frontiers in Earth Science.
