Katey Walter Anthony (PI), Guido Grosse (Co-I), Franz Meyer (Co-I), Ian McDonald (Co-I), Oscar Garcia (Co-I), Melanie Engram (Research Technician), Prajna Regmi (PhD student)

Toward a Circumarctic Lakes Observation Network (CALON)--Multiscale observations of lacustrine systems

2011-2015

K. Hinkel, R. Beck, H. Liu, C. Kim, A. Townsend-Small, and W. Eisner (Univ of Cincinnati), C. Arp and G. Grosse (Univ of Alaska-Fairbanks), J. Lenters (Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln), K. Frey (Clark Univ), and B. Jones (Alaska Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey)

Broad-scale lake and permafrost dynamics in the Western Alaska LCC region

2011-2013

Guido Grosse, Vladimir Romanovsky, William Cable

Arctic Transportation Network

3 years

Michael Lilly (GWS), Horacio Toniolo (WERC), Yuri Shur (INE), Billy Connor (AUTC), Chien-Lu Ping (PRS), Vladimir Romanovsky (GI), Ronald Daanen (WERC), Tom Heinrichs (GINA), Gerald Sehlke (INL)

Thermokarst Lake Drainage - Vulnerability to Climate Change and Prediction of Future Lake Habitat Distribution on the North Slope

2010-2011

Guido Grosse, Benjamin Jones, Vladimir E. Romanovsky

IAPED - Investigation of Arctic Permafrost Degradation using ALOS data: A subproject to CIPEDIA

G. Grosse, V.E. Romanovsky (GI Permafrost Laboratory), Kenji Yoshikawa (WERC)

Lena River Delta - Various Project Activities

G. Grosse (GIPL UAF), L. Schirrmeister, A. Morgenstern, M. Ulrich, J. Boike, H. Lantuit, H.-W. Hubberten (AWI Potsdam)

Remote Sensing Baseline for Long-term Monitoring of the Arctic Circumpolar Coastal Observatory Network (ACCO-Net)

P.P. Overduin, H. Lantuit (AWI Potsdam), M. Allard (Université Laval), G. Grosse (GI Permafrost Laboratory), and the ACD steering committe

Modeling Non-sorted cicle ecosystems using the Water Ice and Temperature model (WIT)

Ronald Paul Daanen and Debasmita Misra

Application of Satellite SAR Imagery in Mapping the Active Layer of Arctic Permafrost

Shusun Li (GI, UAF), Tingjun Zhang (NSIDC, U of Colorado at Boulder), V.E. Romanovsky

Dynamics of Gas Hydrates and Permafrost in the Eurasian and North American Arctic Land-Shelf System

T. E. Osterkamp, N.N. Romanovskii (Moscow State University), V. E. Romanovsky, G. S. Tipenko, S. I. Pokrovsky

Arctic System Science Russian-American Initiative on Shelf-Land Environments in the Arctic (RAISE) Science Management Office

V.E. Romanovsky, P.A. Anderson, B. Severin

Transitions: A study of the spatial and temporal transitions of climate and ecosystems in the circumpolar Arctic.

V. E. Romanovsky, T. E. Osterkamp, and D.O.Sergueev, in collaboration with A.D.McGuire (Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit), F.S.Chapin (Institute of Arctic Biology, UAF), and Q.Zhuang (Department of Biology and Wildlife ).

Synthesis and Integration of Environmental Data Along the East Siberian Transect and Comparison of Active Layer and Permafrost Conditions with an Alaskan Transect.

V. E. Romanovsky, T. E. Osterkamp, T. S. Sazonova, G. S. Tipenko, D. O. Sergueev (UAF) as well as N. I. Shender, V. G. Rusakov, V. T. Balobaev (Yakutsk Permafrost Institute).

IPY: Understanding the Impacts of Icy Permafrost Degradation and Thermokarst-Lake Dynamics in the Arctic on Carbon Cycling, CO2 and CH4 emissions, and Feedbacks to Climate Change

2008-2012

K. Walter Anthony (INE), G. Grosse (GIPL), M. Edwards (UAF / University of Southampton, UK), L. Slater (Rutgers University), L. Plug (Dalhousie University, Canada)

Assessing the spatial and temporal dynamics of thermokarst, methane emissions, and related carbon cycling in Siberia and Alaska

2008-2012

G. Grosse (GIPL), K. Walter (INE), V.E. Romanovsky (GIPL)

Graduate students: Ben Jones (PhD), Melanie Engram (MS), Meghan Tillapaugh (MS), Prajna Regmi (PhD)
Involved postdocs: Miriam Jones (INE), Mark Kessler (Dalhousie/UAF)

Frozen Debris Lobes in the Brooks Range

Margaret Darrow (Geological Engineering), R.P. Daanen (AK-DNR DGGS) and G. Grosse (AWI)

Permafrost Dynamics within the Northern Eurasia Region and Related Impacts on Surface and Sub-Surface Hydrology

V. E. Romanovsky, C. Duguay (University of Waterloo, Canada), S. S. Marchenko, G. Grosse, R. Daanen, D. Nicolsky (GI Permafrost Laboratory)

Recent and future permafrost variability, retreat and degradation in Greenland and Alaska: An integrated approach

J. H. Christensen, M. Stendel (Danish Meteorological Institute), V. Romanovsky, J. Walsh (University of Alaska Fairbanks), K. H. Svendsen (Asiaq), Thomas Ingeman Nielsen, N. Foged (Byg-DTU)

CIPEDIA - Assesment of Climate-Induced Permafrost Degradation in the Arctic

G. Grosse, V.E. Romanovsky

Permafrost Models Comparison

V. Romanovsky, S. Marchenko, D. Nicolsky (GI Permafrost Laboratory); N.Shiklomanov, F. Nelson, O. Anisimov (University of Delaware); Tingjun Zhang, R. Barry (NSIDC, University of Colorado at Boulder)

Influence of Climate and Environmental Factors on the Thermal and Moisture Regimes of the Active Layer and Permafrost

V.E. Romanovsky, T.E. Osterkamp, G.S. Tipenko, D.O. Sergueev (GI Permafrost Laboratory)

Permafrost Research - Cooperations with the International Arctic Research Center (IARC)

T.E. Osterkamp, V.E. Romanovsky, S. Gogineni (Univ. of Kansas), and K. Yoshikawa (Water and Environmental Research Center, UAF, Alaska)

Biocomplexity associated with biogeochemical cycles in arctic frost-boil ecosystems

D.A. Walker (Institute of Arctic Biology, UAF), H.E. Epstein (Department of Environmental Science, U of Virginia), William A. Gould (International Institut of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service), William B. Krantz (Department of Chemical Engineering, U of Cincinnati) G.S. Tipenko, Chien-Lu Ping, (Palmer Research Center, UAF), V.E. Romanovsky, M.D. Walker (Cooperative Forestry Research Unit, UAF)

Interaction of multiple disturbances with climate in Alaskan boreal forests

T.E. Osterkamp, V.E. Romanovsky

Developing a thermo-mechanical model of soil freezing

D. J. Nikolsky, V.E. Romanovsky G. S. Tipenko

Establishing a Permafrost Observatory at the Gakona HAARP Site

V. E. Romanovsky, Yu. Shur (Departament of Civil and Environmental Engineering UAF, Alaska), K. Yoshikawa (Water and Environmental Research Center, UAF, Alaska), G. S. Tipenko

Permafrost Observatory at Barrow

V. E. Romanovsky, K. Yoshikawa (Water and Environmental Research Center, UAF, Alaska), J. Brown (International Permafrost Association), G. S. Tipenko

Winter C-Flux In Arctic Ecosystems Under Changing Climate: Effects Of Soil Carbon And Active Layer Dynamics.

Chien-Lu Ping, G. Michaelson, Xiao-Yan Dai (Palmer Research Station UAF), V. E. Romanovsky, D.O. Sergueev. (UAF)

Process Studies: Permafrost Observation, Analysis, and Interpretation

V. E. Romanovsky, K. Yoshikawa (Water and Environmental Research Center, UAF, Alaska), S. S. Marchenko, G. S. Tipenko, A.D. McGuire (Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, UAF), Nicole Mölders, Igor Semiletov, Natalia Shakhova (IARC, UAF, Alaska)