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Brief communication: Reanalyses underperform in cold regions, raising concerns for climate services and research
The climate-driven changes in cold regions have an outsized importance for local resilient communiti…
GeoManitoba 2025
This Fall NSERC PermafrostNet attended GeoManitoba2025 at the RBC Convention Centre in Winnipeg, wit…
Glossary of Permafrost Science and Engineering
With accelerated climatic warming and announcements of important investments in northern infrastruct…
Parameter optimization for global soil carbon simulations: Not a simple problem
A recent study by Charles Gauthier used Bayesian optimization techniques and global sensitivity anal…
Beyond MAGT: learning more from permafrost thermal monitoring data with additional metrics.
PermafrostNet’s data scientist, Nicholas Brown, has conducted an investigation into the metric…
Modelling the temporal dynamics of subarctic surface temperature inversions from atmospheric reanalysis for producing point-scale multi-decade meteorological time series in mountains
Relying on observational data is not possible in most places due to sparse weather stations. A recen…
Seminar – POSTPONED – Tundra Firescape: Vegetation Succession and Perceptions.
POSTPONED – Due to unforeseen circumstances today’s seminar has been postponed. We will let you know…
Seminar – 16 July – Characterizing carbon and water fluxes in the arctic boreal forest using plant hydraulics parameterization in the presence and absence of permafrost.
Muhammad Umair will be presenting Characterizing carbon and water fluxes in the arctic boreal forest…
Seminar -2 July – Flood Susceptibility Assessment of the Hudson Bay Railway.
Adeleh Moqadam will be presenting Flood Susceptibility Assessment of the Hudson Bay Railway. Date: 2…
Seminar -18 June – Beyond Frozen Ground: Seeing Ground Ice and Terrain Through a Different Lens.
Niek Jesse Speetjens will be presenting Beyond Frozen Ground: Seeing Ground Ice and Terrain Through …
Seminar -11 June – A terrain-based method for snow depth prediction applied in Svalbard, Norway.
Lucas Fuertes will be presenting A terrain-based method for snow depth prediction applied in Svalbar…
Seminar – 21 May – Probabilistic Assessment of Thaw Settlement in Permafrost Terrain Under Climate Change.
Khatereh Roghangar will be presenting Probabilistic Assessment of Thaw Settlement in Permafrost Terr…
Detecting ground ice in warm permafrost with the dielectric relaxation time from SIP observations.
Detecting ground ice in permafrost is crucial for climate research and infrastructure, but tradition…
Seminar – 14 May – A model of temperature inversions to correct bias in reanalysis data.
Victor Pozsgay will be presenting A model of temperature inversions to correct bias in reanalysis da…
Seminar – 4 June – Proglacial Retrogressive Thaw Slumping, Svalbard.
Liam Carson will be presenting Proglacial Retrogressive Thaw Slumping, Svalbard. Date: 4 June&n…
Seminar – 23 April – Assessing Thaw Settlement Vulnerability of the Hudson Bay Railway in the Face of Climate Change.
Zhina Rezvani will be presenting Assessing Thaw Settlement Vulnerability of the Hudson Bay Railway i…
Seminar – 16 April – Exploring Traditional Knowledge of Permafrost Change in the Gwich’in Settlement Area and Inuvialuit Settlement Region.
Emma Street will be presenting Exploring Traditional Knowledge of Permafrost Change in the Gwich’in …
UPDATED DATE – Seminar – 7 May – How can we learn more about permafrost thaw in Canada from borehole temperature observations?
Olivia Meier-Legault will be presenting How can we learn more about permafrost thaw in Canada from b…
Seminar – 2 April – Ground Ice Detection with Spectral Induced Polarization.
Hosein Fereydooni will be presenting Ground Ice Detection with Spectral Induced Polarization. Date: …
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- Brief communication: Reanalyses underperform in cold regions, raising concerns for climate services and research
- GeoManitoba 2025
- Glossary of Permafrost Science and Engineering
- Parameter optimization for global soil carbon simulations: Not a simple problem
- Beyond MAGT: learning more from permafrost thermal monitoring data with additional metrics.
- Modelling the temporal dynamics of subarctic surface temperature inversions from atmospheric reanalysis for producing point-scale multi-decade meteorological time series in mountains
- Seminar – POSTPONED – Tundra Firescape: Vegetation Succession and Perceptions.
- Seminar – 16 July – Characterizing carbon and water fluxes in the arctic boreal forest using plant hydraulics parameterization in the presence and absence of permafrost.
- Seminar -2 July – Flood Susceptibility Assessment of the Hudson Bay Railway.
- Seminar -18 June – Beyond Frozen Ground: Seeing Ground Ice and Terrain Through a Different Lens.
- Seminar -11 June – A terrain-based method for snow depth prediction applied in Svalbard, Norway.
- Seminar – 21 May – Probabilistic Assessment of Thaw Settlement in Permafrost Terrain Under Climate Change.
- Detecting ground ice in warm permafrost with the dielectric relaxation time from SIP observations.
- Seminar – 14 May – A model of temperature inversions to correct bias in reanalysis data.
- Seminar – 4 June – Proglacial Retrogressive Thaw Slumping, Svalbard.
- Seminar – 23 April – Assessing Thaw Settlement Vulnerability of the Hudson Bay Railway in the Face of Climate Change.
- Seminar – 16 April – Exploring Traditional Knowledge of Permafrost Change in the Gwich’in Settlement Area and Inuvialuit Settlement Region.
- UPDATED DATE – Seminar – 7 May – How can we learn more about permafrost thaw in Canada from borehole temperature observations?
- Top 10 most cited article “Best practices for using electrical resistivity tomography to investigate permafrost”.
- Seminar – 2 April – Ground Ice Detection with Spectral Induced Polarization.
- Seminar – 5 March – Improving predictions of permafrost conditions by using data from climate models that centres the impacts of permafrost thaw.
- Seminar – 12 February – Post-Drainage Evolution of Wolverine Lake, Old Crow Flats, Yukon.
- Seminar – 29 January – Understanding Frost Jacking Effects on Transportation Infrastructure in Permafrost Regions.
- Seminar – 22 January – Permafrost Terrain Disturbance Susceptibility in the Nacho Nyäk Tagé (Stewart River) Watershed, Yukon.
- Seminar – 15 January – Characterizing the setting and dynamics of permafrost mass wasting in the central Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories.
- Victor Pozsgay wins CU-PSAC Postdoctoral Fellow Research Award
- Seminar – 18 December – Measuring Active Layer Dynamics with InSAR.
- Seminar – 4 December – A framework for evaluating thaw settlement.
- Seminar – 13 November – Modelling the nitrogen cycle of mosses across the boreal forest.
- Seminar – 16 October – Performance of Drilling Waste Sumps, Western Arctic Canada.
- Seminar – 18 September – Development and demonstration of a statistical ranking framework for ground temperature models, tailored towards permafrost environments.
- Seminar Videos – Ice-Wedges of the Hudson Bay Lowlands and Precise Change Detection with Airborne InSAR & Optical Photogrammetry in Active Permafrost Regions.
- Investigating the controls of ice-wedge initiation and growth using XFEM
- Field work training at Foret Montmorency
- POSTPONED Seminar – 29 May – Performance of Drilling Waste Sumps, Western Arctic Canada.
- Seminar – 22 May – Precise Change Detection with Airborne Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) & Optical Photogrammetry Data and its application to Active Permafrost Regions.
- A prototype field-to-publication data system for a multi-variable permafrost observation network.
- Seminar – 15 May – Ice-Wedge Volume, Distribution, and Development in the Barrens of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Northern Manitoba.
- Recording and AI summary of the 2023 Canadian Science Policy Conference
- Seminar – 8 May – The Effects of Environmental Controls on Epigenetic Ice-Wedge Cracking.
- Seminar – 1 May – Advancing Arctic coastal erosion measurement and monitoring through UAV-SfM and object-based image analysis.
- Le secret des tourbières par Radio-Canada
- Ottawa-Carleton Northern Research Symposium
- Seminar – 17 April – Climate change induced increases in maintenance costs for Yukon highways, 1994–2022.
- Winter Newsletter 2024
- A study of thermal modeling parameters and their impact on modelled permafrost responses to climate warming
- Report on the 2023 NSERC PermafrostNet AGM
- Non-destructive multi-sensor core logging allows for rapid imaging and estimation of frozen bulk density and volumetric ice content in permafrost cores.
- NSERC CREATE LEAP
- Performance of climate projections for Yukon and adjacent Northwest Territories.
- Seminar video – Characterizing the response of Arctic streams and rivers to permafrost thaw.
- Seminar video – SIKU: the Indigenous Knowledge Social Network as a tool for Indigenous-led research and meaningful research engagement with Indigenous communities.
- Northern Research Leadership and Equity: The Expert Panel on the Future of Arctic and Northern Research in Canada
- Transferring Cryosphere Knowledge between Mountains Globally: A Case Study of Western Canadian Mountains, the European Alps and the Scandes
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- Best practices for using electrical resistivity tomography to investigate permafrost.
- The Northwest Territories Thermokarst Mapping Collective: a northern-driven mapping collaborative toward understanding the effects of permafrost thaw
- 6th European Conference on Permafrost (EUCOP 2023)
- New seminar videos – Variation in the morphology of permafrost peatlands and Compacting snowbanks to lower ground temperatures.
- Seminar – 31 May – Field experiments investigating snowpack compaction as a method of lowering ground temperatures.
- Seminar – 19 April – Variation in the morphology of permafrost peatlands across the transition from continuous to discontinuous permafrost, central Mackenzie Valley.
- Seminar – 5 April – Rock walls of western Canada: Evaluating the relationships between permafrost, topography and climate.
- International intern
- 2023 International Day of Permafrost
- Seminar – Exploring the interactions between permafrost, ground ice and soil organic carbon.
- Seminar – Permafrost and mercury: revisiting a global hazard assessment at the regional scale in the Hudson Bay Lowlands.
- Seminar – Application of the industrial computed tomography scanning in the characterization of permafrost and non-permafrost cores.
- Seminar – Optimizing CLASSIC’s Soil Carbon Parameters using Bayesian Optimisation and Observational Datasets.
- NSERC PermafrostNet and ArcticNet sign MoU
- Seminar – Effective data sharing: Achievements and challenges creating the Canadian Permafrost Electrical Resistivity Survey Database.
- Fieldwork reports: Charles Gauthier, Rose Lefebvre, Lyna Mansouri and Oliver Sonnentag
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- Formats and variables – making permafrost data more useful
- The changing landscape of permafrost data
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- RCOP 2021 Data Systems Workshop Final Report
- Fieldwork report: Galina Jonat, Hannah Macdonell, Emilie Stewart-Jones and Stephan Gruber
- Compendium of Permafrost Reports: Northern Transportation Adaptation Initiative (NTAI) 2011-2021.
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- New publication: Ground subsidence and heave over permafrost.
- COVID-19: NSERC PermafrostNet response and resources
- New team member – Emma Stockton
- Land Claims Agreement Coalition Conference 2020
- Third Canadian Polar Data Workshop
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- Northern Lights 2020
- Theme 1 and Database Development Workshop
- NSERC PermafrostNet Inaugural Annual General meeting