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Thawing permafrost can release nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas, a contributor to climate change that has been largely overlooked in the Arctic, a study from B. Eberling, H. H. Christiansen and B. U. Hansen showed in Nature Geoscience. The report in the journal Nature Geoscience indicated that emissions of the gas surged under certain conditions from thawing permafrost that underlies about 25 percent of land in the Northern Hemisphere.Emissions of the gas measured from thawing wetlands in Zack…

The International Permafrost Association is awarded a grant from the International Council for Science (ICSU) to launch its MicroPerm project.ICSU announced on March 15th, 2010 that the MicroPerm project, which stands for “circumpolar integration of permafrost microbiological studies” is the successful recipient of a 2010 ICSU grant. The project, led by Dr. Dirk Wagner, at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Potsdam, Germany, is the first of its kind, in that it will bring…

The latest issue of the International Permafrost Association yearly bulletin, Frozen Ground, is now available for download on the IPA website. This new issue focuses on country reports of research activities, Working Group reports and many other reports from partners and permafrost projected. You can now get it here. If you want to know what the permafrost research community is doing, this is the place!

You can now follow the most recent news from the International Permafrost Association on Facebook and Twitter. The most recent news items posted on the IPA website are automatically fed to the newly established IPA account and page on both Twitter and Facebook. Follow the tweets or register on the IPA Facebook page and get these news directly into your profile, into your mailbox, or on your cellphone. You can also use the RSS feeds of the IPA directly into your RSS feed reader or in your email software…

We are pleased to provide you with the latest update to the Third European Conference on Permafrost, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway, 13.-17. June 2010. The early registration deadline is fast approaching (15th February). Abstracts must be submitted by this date to be considered for a poster or paper. Please send abstracts to abstracts@eucop2010.no following the template format which is available on the EUCOP website.The conference will focus on both arctic and alpine permafrost research, and recent ach…

We are pleased to provide you with the latest update to the Third European Conference on Permafrost, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway, 13.-17. June 2010. The early registration deadline is fast approaching (15th February). Abstracts must be submitted by this date to be considered for a poster or paper. Please send abstracts to abstracts@eucop2010.no following the template format which is available on the EUCOP website.The conference will focus on both arctic and alpine permafrost research, and recent ach…

Submissions are invited for the 6th Canadian Conference on Permafrost (CanCOP6): The 6th Canadian Conference on Permafrost (CanCOP6)September 12-16, 2010Calgary, AlbertaThe Canadian National Committee for the International Permafrost Association (CNC-IPA) is organizing the 6th Canadian Conference on Permafrost in conjunction with the 63rd Canadian Geotechnical Conference from September 12-16, 2010 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.Permafrost sessions include: Mackenzie Delta and Coastal Dynamics Climate Chan…

Matt Nolan, from the University of Alaska Fairbanks has compiled some spectacular panoramic views from the permafrost tunnel in Fairbanks. You can have a look at those here: http://www.360cities.net/tour-preview/crrel-permafrost-tunnel-panoramic-tour. The United States Army maintains and operates the CRREL Permafrost Tunnelnear Fairbanks, Alaska. CRREL is short for the U.S. Army's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Developmen…

The International Permafrost Association is proud to introduce the “IPA Lifetime Achievement Award”. The goal of this award is to acknowledge the lifetime contribution of individuals for outstanding permafrost science and engineering research. and/or for exceptional contributions to the international permafrost research community.The first of these awards will be made during the European Conference on Permafrost (EUCOP III) in June 2010. The rules are that the award should not be given posthumously…

Dr. Larry Hinzman, director of the International Arctic Research Center in Fairbanks, Alaska will be giving the 2009 Nye Lecture on December 15 2009 at 5 pm at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco. Since the formation of AGU's Cryosphere Focus Group in 2002, Cryosphere has had an increasing presence at the Fall AGU meeting in San Francisco. One of the highlights of the Cryosphere Focus Group's program has been the Nye Lecture, traditionally held as close as possible to the Cryosphere Reception. It is …