A recent paper, Dr. Vladimir Romanovsky is co-author, details seabed geoelectric field observations of ice-rich sea-bed permafrost and estimate of the degradation rate. Sea-bed permafrost like permafrost on land can hold substantial amounts of methane, a very potent greenhouse gas. Degradation of sea-bed permafrost on the shallow continental shelves of the coastal seas of the Arctic Ocean could 'ignite' a substantially positive feedback loop with the atmosphere-land-ocean systems in the Arctic with global impact. The paper is published in JGR - Earth Surface, v.
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On January 26 through 29, Reginald Muskett, Postdoctoral Fellow of the Geophysical Institute and Permafrost Laboratory attended the International Workshop for Greenhouse Gas Measurements from Space -6 and the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT) Principal Investigator Meeting in Kyoto, Japan. The workshop and meeting were held consecutively in the International Conference Center, site of the 1997 UN Kyoto Protocol meetings. Dr.
