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The International Permafrost Association´s annual publication, Frozen Ground, is now available. It describes a selection of the activities of the International Permafrost Association over the past year. The Country Reports give additional details concerning the great variety of permafrost science and engineering initiatives underway around the globe. We hope that you will enjoy reading about these activities. We also ask you to update your IPA membership. If you are not already a member, consider join…

Project Overview The Arctic Coastal Dynamics (ACD) project began in 1999 as an initiative of the IPA and IASC and quickly developed a vibrant international scientific community. ACD provided significant contributions to International Conferences on Arctic Research Planning, to the International Polar Year, Arctic Observing (SAON, AOS), and the recent transdisciplinary summary of changes in the arctic coastal zone published in 2012 (The State of the Arctic Coast). Since then, the Circumpolar Arctic Coas…

WANTED – Comics artists (comic strips) Context «A Frozen-Ground Cartoon» is a scientific outreach project that aims at presenting and promoting international permafrost research via a series of comic strips and illustrated media products. The project is officially supported by the International Permafrost Association as a targeted ‘Action Group’ (http://ipa.arcticportal.org/activities/action-groups) and will run from February 2016 to January 2018. The scientific aspects will be coordinated by a…

Dear permafrost enthusiasts, thank you for submitting abstracts for the 11th International Conference on Permafrost. We were overwhelmed by the response of the permafrost community.You submitted 979 abstracts in the conference registration system, which will give proper headaches to the international scientific committee to organize. We are already working on organizing the sessions and will get back to the session conveners after this to get the program organized. By 1 February 2016, authors will be i…

Dear Permafrost Community, The Circle is a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) quarterly magazine focusing on specific Arctic-related topics. The current issue is devoted to the theme of thawing permafrost and may be accessed by clicking on the link below. This issue also includes a circumpolar status report. http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/arctic/publications/the_circle/?255730/The-Circle-0415

Dear Young Permafrost Researchers, here is the perfect opportunity for you to become internationally engaged as Young National Correspondent in the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (http://gtnp.arcticportal.org/). For more information click here! Your PYRN team

www.icop2016.org The 11th International Conference on Permafrost (ICOP 2016) will be held in Potsdam, Germany, 20-24 June 2016. The conference aims at covering all relevant aspects of permafrost research, engineering and outreach on a global and regional level. Check out the conference trailer here: http://www.icop2016.org/index.php/medias/videos. We hereby open the call 1 December 2015 via the external conference registration system ConfTool (https://www.conftool.pro/icop2016/). For this system you ha…

The Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P) held its Second GTN-P National Correspondents Workshop in Quebec, Canada, September 19-20. Dmitry Streletsky (George Washington University, Washington DC, USA) was elected as the new Chair of the Steering Committee for the coming four years. Boris Biskaborn (AWI, Germany) was appointed as the Director of the Secretariat. The workshop was attended by 33 permafrost scientists acting as National Correspondents (NC) for 25 Countries involved in GTN-P. D…

This Saturday (19/09/2015) at the GeoQuébec 2015 conference in Quebec, Canada the first online data portal on global permafrost will be presented. In the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P) researchers first collect all the existing permafrost temperature and active thickness layer data from Arctic, Antarctic and mountain permafrost regions and then make it freely available for download. This new portal can serve as an early warning system for researchers and decision-makers around the g…

Dear Permafrost enthusiasts, The ICOP is also the place to organize business meetings. These can be related to ongoing programs, international committees or upcoming projects. The ICOP organizers have reserved rooms for these business meetings on the 17, 18, 19 and 25 of June 2016. No business meeting will be allowed during the week (20-24 June) to avoid conflict with scientific sessions and social events. The ICOP organizers will provide a room and projection material. Lunch or coffee can be arranged …