Scientific Personnel V. E. Romanovsky, S. S. Marchenko, R.R. Muskett Partner Organizations: Alaska Ecoscience, USA Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany Centre d'etudes Nordiques, Department de Geog
Samoylov Island is centrally located within the Lena River Delta at 72° N, 126° E and lies within the Siberian zone of continuous permafrost. The landscape on Samoylov Island consists mainly of late H
Prins Karls Foreland is a small and elongated island on the western flank of the Svalbard archipelago. It belongs to the system of complex host and graben structures of the...
Permafrost dynamics are highly dependent on soil properties, like soil texture, soil moisture and soil depth. Modelers need to time and time again parametrize their study sites with this type of data.
In June of 1971, the Wickersham fire burned 6313 ha in an open black spruce forest underlain with permafrost and provided an opportunity to study fire and fireline effects on the rate and patterns of