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Active Projects

These projects are ongoing projects either lead by researchers of the GI Permafrost Laboratory or with at least substantial contribution of Permafrost laboratory staff.

Project I: Process Studies: Permafrost Observation, Analysis, and Interpretation

NSF Grant OPP 0327664

Scientific personnel: 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).

Project II: Permafrost Observatory at Barrow

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

Project III: Establishing a Permafrost Observatory at the HAARP Site

ONR Grant N 00014-13-1-0991:Scientific personnel - 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

Project IV: Interaction of multiple disturbances with climate in Alaskan boreal forests

NSF Grant OPP: Scientific personnel - T.E. Osterkamp, V.E. Romanovsky.

Project V: Developing a thermo-mechanical model of soil freezing (PDF-file)

Scientific personnel - D. J. Nikolsky, V.E. Romanovsky G. S. Tipenko.

Project VI: Biocomplexity associated with biogeochemical cycles in arctic frost-boil ecosystems

NSF Grant OPP: Scientific personnel - 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)

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

NSF Grant OPP: Scientific personnel - T.E. Osterkamp, V.E. Romanovsky, S. Gogineni (Univ. of Kansas), and K. Yoshikawa (Water and Environmental Research Center, UAF, Alaska),

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

NSF Grant OPP-9870635: Scientific personnel - V.E. Romanovsky, T.E. Osterkamp, G.S. Tipenko, D.O. Sergueev.

Project IX: Permafrost Models Comparison

NSF Grant OPP: Scientific personnel - V. Romanovsky S. Marchenko, D. Nicolsky; N.Shiklomanov, F. Nelson, O. Anisimov (University of Delaware); Tingjun Zhang , R. Barry (NSIDC, University of Colorado at Boulder)

Project X: Climate Induced Permafrost Degradation in the Arctic (CIPEDIA)

UA Grant IPY Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship: Scientific personnel - G. Grosse, V.E. Romanovsky

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

NSF Grant ARC 0612533 Scientific personel J. H. Christensen, M. Stendel (Danish Meteorological Institute), V. Romanovsky, J. Walsh (University of Alaska Fairbanks), K. H. Svendsen (Asiaq), N. Foged (Byg-DTU)

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

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

Project XIII: Flow slides in the Brooks Range

EPSCoR Grant: Scientific personnel - R.P. Daanen and G. Grosse

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

NASA Carbon Cycle Sciences Grant: Scientific personnel - G. Grosse (GIPL), K. Walter (INE), V. Romanovsky (GIPL)

Project XV: 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

NSF OPP IPY Grant: Scientific personnel - K. Walter (INE), G. Grosse (GIPL), M. Edwards (UAF / University of Southampton, UK), L. Slater (Rutgers University), L. Plug (Dalhousie University, Canada)

   
   

 

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