The Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN)

The Permafrost Young Researchers Network is the main resource for young researchers involved in permafrost research. It is an international collaborative effort from students and researchers.

The Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN) was founded as a small initiative by Hugues Lantuit in 2005 at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam, Germany. PYRN rapidly grew tomore than 300 international members - students and early carreer scientists in the field of permafrost research - from more than 30 countries. It is now the largest young researchers network in the cryospheric sciences and continues to grow. PYRN is endorsed by the International Permafrost Association (IPA), and it is an IPY certified (IPY ID 1111) project in the Education and Outreach section.

Get involved in PYRN and receive information about jobs, fellowships, events, publications related to permafrost. Take part in the strengthening of a growing research community

PYRN-Bib: International bibliographical database on student theses in the field of permafrost research

One effort in PYRN is the compilation of a comprehensive bibiography of student theses in the field of permafrost research: PYRN-Bib. We encourage all PYRN members as well as permafrost senior scientists to contribute to PYRN-Bib by submitting their own theses as well as existing compilations of permafrost theses at their institutions. PYRN-Bib is managed by Guido Grosse (GIPL UAF) and Hugues Lantuit (AWI Potsdam). A current and repeatedly updated version of the PYRN-Bib bibliographic database is downloadable in various data formats for everyone interested at the PYRN website.

With this initiative we aim to provide a unique bibliographical source for students as well as for established researchers in the permafrost community. This bibliography will cover a largely unused source of information, which otherwise would be difficult to access and often remain hidden in local libraries. We include degree-earning theses (e.g. Diploma thesis, Ph.D. thesis, Master thesis, etc.), coming from any country and any of the major scientific fields like biology, geology, geography, etc., under the single condition that the thesis is related to research on permafrost or periglacial processes. So far, more than 200 entries have been made into the database mainly by PYRN members and some individual efforts.
Even small contributions count!
The bibliography PYRN-Bib is made available online as a literature list (currently, the bibliography is offered in three different file formats: PDF, tab-delimited txt, Endnote-library).
There are several ways to contribute information to PYRN-Bib:

• Submit your thesis online via the form on the website www.pyrn.org
• Simply complete the data fields in the Excel-file provided at our website with your citation information  and send us the completed file via email
• Use the provided Endnote-file for sending us citation information according to the fields in the file via email

If you have a larger amount of citation information, please contact us so we can figure out the best way to convert the data (if conversion is necessary).
For more questions regarding

• PYRN, please contact Hugues Lantuit: hlantuit@awi-potsdam.de
• PYRN-Bib, please contact Guido Grosse: ggrosse@gi.alaska.edu

With best regards,
Guido Grosse & Hugues Lantuit

Links:

• Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN)
• International Permafrost Association (IPA)
• International Polar Year 2007 / 2008 (IPY)

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