Dr. Guido Grosse

Research Assistant Professor

Permafrost Laboratory
Geophysical Institute
University of Alaska Fairbanks
903 Koyukuk Drive
Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA

Phone:(+1)-907-474-7548
Fax: (+1)-907-474-7290
Email: ffgg1@uaf.edu

Research Interests
Causes, impacts and feedbacks of permafrost degradation; remote sensing of periglacial landscapes; spatial analysis of periglacial geomorphology; permafrost and palaeo-environmental reconstruction; Martian permafrost

Current projects

• NASA: Assessing the spatial and temporal dynamics of thermokarst, methane emissions, and related carbon cycling in Siberia and Alaska
• NSF Office of Polar Programs: 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
• Climate induced permafrost degradation in the Arctic (CIPEDIA)
• SPOT Planet Action: Detecting thermokarst lake change in Siberia using SPOT imagery

Previous research

• Permafrost degradation on Mars (PeDoM)
• Lena River Delta - Various projects
• Characterisation of periglacial surfaces, land cover mapping and change detection in the Lena River Delta, Northeast Siberia using hyperspectral Chris Proba imagery

Successful proposals for remote sensing data acquisitions

Recent Publications

• Ulrich M, Grosse G, Schirrmeister L, Chabrillat S (2009): Spectral characterization of periglacial surfaces and geomorphological units in the Arctic Lena Delta using field spectrometry and remote sensing. Remote Sensing of Environment, 113: 1220-1235. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2009.02.009
• Schneider J, Grosse G, Wagner D (2009): Land cover classification of tundra environments in the Arctic Lena Delta based on Landsat 7 ETM+ data and its application for upscaling of methane emissions. Remote Sensing of Environment, 113: 380-391. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.10.013
• Edwards M, Walter K, Grosse G, Plug L, Slater L, Valdes P (2009): Arctic thermokarst lakes and the carbon cycle. PAGES News, 17(1): 16-18.
• Andreev AA, Grosse G, Schirrmeister L, Kuznetsova TV, Kuzmina SA, Bobrov AA, Tarasov PE, Novenko EYu, Meyer H, Derevyagin AYu, Kienast F, Bryantseva A, Kunitsky VV (2009): Weichselian and Holocene palaeoenvironmental history of the Bol'shoy Lyakhovsky Island, New Siberian Archipelago, Arctic Siberia. Boreas, 38(1): 72-110. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3885.2008.00039.x
• Schirrmeister L, Grosse G, Kunitsky V, Magens D, Meyer H, Derivyagin A, Kuznetsova T, Andreev A, Kienast F, Grigoriev M, Preusser F (2008): Periglacial landscape evolution and environmental changes of Arctic lowland areas during the Late Quaternary (Western Laptev Sea coast, Cape Mamontov Klyk). Polar Research, 27: 249-272. doi:10.1111/j.1751-8369.2008.00067.x
• Grosse G, Romanovsky V, Walter K, Morgenstern A, Lantuit H, Zimov S (2008): Distribution of Thermokarst Lakes and Ponds at Three Yedoma Sites in Siberia. In: 'Ninth International Conference on Permafrost', Kane DL & Hinkel KM (eds), Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks, pp. 551-556.
• Schirrmeister L, Grosse G, Kunitsky V, Magens D, Meyer H, Derivyagin A, Kuznetsova T, Andreev A, Kienast F, Grigoriev M, Preusser F (2008): Periglacial landscape evolution and environmental changes of Arctic lowland areas during the Late Quaternary (Western Laptev Sea coast, Cape Mamontov Klyk). Polar Research, 27(2): 249 - 272.
• Walter KM, Edwards M, Grosse G, Chapin III FS, Zimov SA (2007): Thermokarst lakes as a source of atmospheric CH4 during the last deglaciation. Science, 318: 633-636.
• Morgenstern A, Hauber E, Reiss D, van Gasselt S, Grosse G, Schirrmeister L (2007): Deposition and degradation of a volatile-rich layer in Utopia Planitia, and implications for climate history on Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets 112, E06010. (pdf 0.7 MB)
• Grosse G, Schirrmeister L, Siegert Ch, Kunitsky VV, Slagoda EA, Andreev AA, Dereviagyn AYu (2007): Geological and geomorphological evolution of a sedimentary periglacial landscape in Northeast Siberia during the Late Quaternary. Geomorphology, 86(1-2): 25-51. (pdf 4.1 MB)
• Grosse G, Schirrmeister L, Malthus TJ (2006): Application of Landsat-7 satellite data and a DEM for the quantification of thermokarst-affected terrain types in the periglacial Lena-Anabar coastal lowland, Polar Research, 25(1): 51-67. (pdf 0.9 MB)
• Grosse G, Schirrmeister L, Kunitsky VV, Hubberten H-W (2005): The use of CORONA images in remote sensing of periglacial geomorphology: An illustration from the NE-Siberian coast. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 16: 163-172. (pdf 6.8 MB)

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Appointments

Education

Professional Memberships
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
United States Permafrost Association (USPA)
Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN)
Arctic Institute of North America (AINA)

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