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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

💡 The study reveals how federal and state systems often fail to recognize the urgency of gradual, compounding environmental threats, and how this failure leaves Tribal communities to bear the disproportionate impacts from climate change.

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

➡ Learn more about our partnership with Sámi reindeer herders and ICR at the link in our bio. 🗳️If you’re at the Esri UC right now, you can help us raise awareness by voting for “Navigating the new Arctic” here: mapgallery.esri.com/submission-d...

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

🦌 For many Indigenous reindeer herding communities, the loss and fragmentation of pastures not only threaten their economic livelihoods but also their cultural heritage and traditional knowledge passed down through generations.

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

❄️ Across the Arctic, nomadic reindeer herders find themselves on the frontlines of a rapidly changing world. Their traditional way of life, deeply intertwined with the seasonal migrations of their reindeer herds, faces significant threats from changing land use and the impacts of climate change.

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

🗺 This week, our team is raising awareness about Arctic change at #EsriUC2025 in San Diego. Today, @cmshintani.bsky.social's “Navigating the new Arctic"—co-produced with Sámi partners at the International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry —is featured in the Map Gallery.

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

🎥 Stay tuned for recorded sessions and learn more about the panel and #MR2025 at: adaptation.climate.columbia.edu

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

💬 Thank you to everyone who attended our session and asked such thoughtful questions! We’re so grateful to be in community with so many passionate and creative people working on climate adaptation, and we were thrilled to bump into other Arctic friends from Tuktoyaktuk!

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

🎤 Moderated by Dr. Sue Natali, our panel session convened Morris Alexie and Melissa Shapiro from @woodwellclimate.bsky.social, Karen Pletnikoff (Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association), and Max Neale (ANTHC) to discuss challenges, innovations, and policy recs for climate adaptation in Alaska.

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

🏙️ This week, our team brought lessons in climate adaptation from Alaska to New York City during the Climate Mobility and Resilience Conference #MR2025 at @climate.columbia.edu, the ancestral and traditional homeland of the Lenni-Lenape and Wappinger people.

Cover slide of panel session on blue and green background.

List of panelists: Morris Alexie, Karen Pletnikoff, Melissa Shapiro, Max Neale, and Sue Natali (moderator)

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Our boreal fire team @woodwellclimate.bsky.social is in D.C. this week to discuss responses+solutions to address the severe northern #wildfires impacting people, animals, and ecosystems. We'll be adding to this resource 🧵, so please let us know what you'd like to see. (🗺️ by @cmshintani.bsky.social)

Black, blue, gray and yellow stereographic map depicts permafrost extent and the boreal forest ecoregion in the circumpolar north. Text: Data: Gruber, S, 2012. Ecoregions 2017 Resolve

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🎬The festival will also be screening “This is a Story About Salmon,” a powerful short documentary film by @princessdaazhraii.bsky.social (Neets’aii Gwich’in), featuring Woods and other Alaska Native women advocating to save salmon and the future of their communities.

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🎤 Brooke Woods has taken the stage at #Mountainfilm with other Indigenous leaders—including former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and climate policy expert @jadebegay.bsky.social—to discuss how Indigenous Knowledge, voices, and expertise are crucial in land and water management.

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

📸: the first article in the new issue of #Wildfire magazine on cultural burning, written by Edward Alexander. Morten Høglund, Chair of the Senior Arctic Officials during Norway’s chairship of the #ArcticCouncil, and Solveig Rossebø, Senior Arctic Official for #Norway, hold copies of the new issue.

"Wildfire in the Arctic" digital magazine pages 4 and 5 display a photo of a cultural burn in Fort Yukon, Alaska. The title of the article is Cultural Burning: The important role of traditional practices in the modern Arctic. Photo and essay by Edward Alexander, who developed the new issue of the magazine.

person wearing dark blazer and glasses holds the Arctic issue of Wildfire magazine up and smiles.

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

❄️ Together with our partners and collaborators, we continue to publish advances in permafrost science, influence critical Arctic policy, and support climate justice and adaptation efforts in Alaska and across the Arctic.

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Postdoctoral researcher Kelcy Kent shared flux data that show need for year-round monitoring, and co-lead Brendan Rogers shared a poster on Permafrost Pathways and reported out as part of the ICARP IV Research Priority Team 2 on Arctic observing and modeling needs. bsky.app/profile/perm... #ASSW2025

Two researchers smile standing before poster titled "The NASA Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment." The poster includes several maps, including sink-source data from Virkkala et al, 2025.

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Christina Schädel @schaedelc.bsky.social shared work on updating models to include permafrost emissions. Preliminary results show just how important getting permafrost into the picture is for global carbon budgets. This budget 'blindspot' will grow the longer it takes us to bend the emissions curve.

In classroom, presenter in blazer and lanyard gestures at projector screen, which shows a bar graph titled "Permafrost emissions decrease our carbon budget."

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

We co-hosted a workshop with the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme to identify opportunities and steps toward a pan-Arctic coupled monitoring hub. Such a unified 'network of networks' would help to generate current, policy-relevant insights into fluxes and ecosystem change across the Arctic

In a classroom, a researcher wearing black speaks into microphone as attendees listen and respond.

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

🧵 Our team had a great Arctic Science Summit Week in Boulder, which is located on the traditional territories and ancestral homelands of the Cheyenne, Arapahoe, and Ute, and other Native American nations. Thank you to everyone who joined the conversations about improving Arctic research! #ASSW2025

People sit in semi-circle listening to a speaker wearing red at the Indigenous Pavilion on the campus of CU Boulder, which sits on the traditional territories of the Cheyenne, Arapahoe, and Ute Native American nations. The Flatiron mountains stand in the background.

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

📈Winter carbon emissions from a carbon monitoring tower near Council, Alaska offset the C sink in growing season, and even exceeded summer uptake in some recent years. Analysis and poster led by Kelcy Kent of our carbon monitoring team! #ASSW2025

Scientist in gray and black and lanyard stands next to their poster titled ‘Spatiotemporal variability of carbon fluxes and responses to climatic factors at a tussock tundra site near Council, Alaska’

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

If you're at Arctic Science Summit Week today, please join @woodwellclimate.bsky.social's Christina Schädel @schaedelc.bsky.social at 1:30 PM for an update on how her team is refining emissions projections and addressing limitations in #permafrost carbon modeling. #ASSW2025

1.1. Emerging Arctic ecosystems and their potential for carbon sequestration

26 March 2025 | 13:30 - 15:30 (MDT)

ICARP IV
Open Session - HYBRID

Room: UMC Third Floor - 382

Organisers: Claudia Elena Schmidt (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon); Helmuth Thomas (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon); Sarina Niedzwiedz (University of Bremen)

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

‘Climate change is happening so rapidly in the Arctic it’s now outpacing our reports,’ says Rolf Rødven, executive secretary of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, highlighting the need for more frequent policy-relevant updates. #ASSW2025

Standing Room only in conference room. Projector reads ‘Key Findings from the AMAP Arctic Climate Change Update 2024’

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

We’re at the Alaska Forum on the Environment this week on Dena’ina lands in Anchorage — come find us at booth #20 on the third floor of the convention center and enter our raffle! #AlaskaForum2025

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Collaborative synthesis #science like this is crucial to understanding climate trends and advancing pan-Arctic monitoring efforts. Congratulations @annvirkk.bsky.social @woodwellclimate.bsky.social & all co-authors, incl. @roseatmos.bsky.social @thissideofthearctic.org! 🗺️ by @gfiske.bsky.social

Black, white, orange and blue stereographic map of the Arctic showing average terrestrial CO2 balance from 2001-2020 based on a synthesis of field measurements and machine learning models and including wildfire emissions. Legend reads: Terrestrial CO2 balance Source --- Sink (gC/m2/y)
Data sources: Virkkala et al. 2025
van Wees et al. 2022

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

🧊🔥 New paper @natclimchange.bsky.social: After millennia as a carbon deep-freezer for the planet, a third of the Arctic-boreal zone is now a CO2 source to the atmosphere. The int’l research team was led by @annvirkk.bsky.social ⬇️ Learn more: permafrost.woodwellclimate.org/after-millen...

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

New paper in @agu.org Geophysical Research Letters: Detecting #Arctic hotspots using satellite and temp records shows extreme warming, drying and browning in Siberian forests and other areas of high ecosystem #climate stress in northern #Alaska & Northwest Territories of #Canada. #AGUPubs #GIS a 🧵:

Map of areas that experienced ecosystem climate stress in the Arctic-boreal region between 1997-2020 as detected by multiple variables including satellite data and long-term temperature records. Watts et al., 2025, Geophysical Research Letters

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

🗓️ Next week, Permafrost Pathways Project Lead and Senior Scientist Dr. Sue Natali from @woodwellclimate.bsky.social will be joining #NOAA and fellow co-authors for a virtual briefing about the #2024ArcticReportCard on Wed 1/15 @ 4 PM ET/1 PM PT. ⬇️ Register: register.gotowebinar.com/register/390...

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

🗻Created in 2024, each tells a story about the immense beauty of the high north, the dramatic changes unfolding due to Arctic warming, and the equitable solutions being developed to address #climate impacts. #GIS #dataviz #maps

On black background, white, red, and blue map of circumpolar region depicts average carbon fluxes in the Arctic on scale of source to sink. White text reads "Pan-Arctic carbon sources and sinks" Map by Greg Fiske / Woodwell Climate Research Center

On black background, black red and blue map depicts change in the number of dangerous wildfire days 2001-2020 vs 1981-2000 and shows a legend of the change from -10 to greater than or equal to 20 days. A gray box depicts color that represents "little to no biomass"
White text reads "Map by Christina Shintani / Woodwell Climate Research Center"

Blue and black stylized graphic that reads "That's a map wrap!"
permafrost.woodwellclimate.org/2024-in-arctic-maps/

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

❄️ Explore Arctic maps by award-winning @woodwellclimate.bsky.social cartographers @gfiske.bsky.social and @cmshintani.bsky.social 🗺️: permafrost.woodwellclimate.org/2024-in-arct... #GIS #dataviz #maps #academicsky

Blue and black diamond shaped graphic overlaid with white text: 2024 Arctic maps wrapped. Capturing a year of Arctic beauty and change. permafrost.woodwellclimate.org

in the style of 'spotify wrapped,' blue and black graphic featuring map of the Yukon river in Alaska reads: "Cartographers: 1 Greg Fiske 2 Christina Shintani"
"Top themes: 1 Permafrost 2 Wildfire
Featured maps: 15"
small text: 2024 Arctic Maps Wrapped

Gray blue and white square map of circumpolar region featuring hexagons. White text reads: "abrupt permafrost thaw across the Arctic"
Map by Greg Fiske/Woodwell Climate Research Center

On black background, blue, teal, and white map of Alaska appears depicting permafrost extent on a scale from sporadic to continuous. White text reads: "Permafrost extent in Alaska"
Map by Christina Shintani / Woodwell Climate Research Center

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Thanks for a wonderful #AGU24 and props to our whole crew from @woodwellclimate.bsky.social and everyone who connected with our team at talks and posters. On to NOLA next year!

Researcher stands before a science poster on gray poster board and smiles. She wears black and a floral vest with yellow boots. The poster is titled: "ABCFluxv2: A synthesis of Arctic-boreal carbon fluxes for improved carbon budget estimates" and contains a large circumpolar map of flux sites included in the database.

Six researchers wearing backpacks and different color jackets smiling at camera stand before decorated fir tree and poinsettias at AGU24 in Washington Convention Center.

Researcher wearing black stands behind lectern labeled AGU24 before audience members. Three others sit at a table to their right. On a projector, a slide depicts estimated annual methane fluxes from Arctic-boreal region.

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

📢 Come join our Permafrost Pathways team at @woodwellclimate.bsky.social! We have an open position for: ⛰️ Arctic Adaptation Manager (Alaska) 📍Remote, Alaska-based. 🗓️ Application review will begin on Monday, December 16, 2024. Learn more: bit.ly/3ZxKa3h

Blue graphic of snowy landscape with white text that reads: "We're hiring Arctic Adaptation Manager. Woodwell Arctic Permafrost Pathways

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

📍Kelcy Kent on Spatiotemporal Variability of Carbon Fluxes Climatic Factors at a Tussock Tundra Site near Council, Alaska (B43G-1643) #AGU24

Photo of flux monitoring (Eddy covariance) tower on tussock tundra with low cloud ceiling near Council, AK. A brown plank boardwalk leads to the tower in the middle distance.

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

📍Patrick Murphy on late season carbon fluxes from two new high Arctic sites (B43G-1635) #AGU24

In foreground, flux monitoring (eddy covariance) tower and in background, a solar panel in the fog. The tower was installed in 2024 in the polar desert near Qausuittuq (Resolute Bay), Nunavut

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

📍Dani Trangmoe @dtrangmoe.bsky.social on a year-round analysis of carbon dynamics from a tower site in Churchill, Manitoba (B43G-1622) #AGU24

Close up of researcher in pink rain jacket and gray toque wiring an array of thermocouples at flux monitoring (eddy covariance) tower in Alaska

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Our #AGU24 Day Two: ✔️shared results from our modeling and field observations ✔️received shoutout at #Ameriflux town hall for adding network's northernmost tower site ✔️fielded great reporter questions at launch of NOAA #Arctic Report Card ✔️crushed BioGeoBingo at the #biogeochemistry mixer 🧪

Researcher Christina Minions wearing black and a pattern face mask stands beside poster and gestures with hands. The poster is labeled: “The Role of Landcover on CO2 and CH4 Emissions on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska"

Twelve smiling Woodwell Climate scientists pose for photo in conference room before round table containing multiple "biogeobingo" cards, a candle, a yellow and green soda can, and a chair that holds tempura.

Researcher Chu-Chun Chang of the Permafrost Pathways modeling team wears black and smiles as she stands before her poster titled: "Advanced Arctic Terrestrial Data Assimilation: Integrating DVM-DOS-TEM with NCAR DART for Enhanced Ecological Modeling"

Five panelists sit at a long table before an audience. To the left, a moderator stands at a lectern between panel and projector that reads "Press conference: NOAA 2024 Arctic Report Card" in white text on blue background

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

️‍🔥This new pan-Arctic assessment—the first to incorporate wildfire emissions—provides a holistic review of the climate drivers impacting carbon storage and emissions across the #Arctic region, including thawing #permafrost and wildfires. #AGU24 #NOAA

Graphical figure that reads "burned area and carbon emissions in the permafrost region" overlaid on a gif of boreal fire

Image of burning boreal forest overlaid with white text that reads "In recent years, we've seen how increasing fire activity from climate change threatens both communities and the carbon stored in permafrost, but now we're beginning to be able to measure the cumulative impact to the atmosphere, and it's significant." Dr. Brendan Rogers, Project co-lead, Permafrost Pathways, Associate Scientist, Woodwell Climate Research Center

Graph of "burned area in Canada and Alaska," showing burned area in hectares between 1960-2023 in orange and red. A visible spike in Canada fires in 2023 labeled as "over 14 million hectares burned in 2023"

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

🏔️ Permafrost Pathways researchers @woodwellclimate.bsky.social led the Arctic Terrestrial Carbon Cycling chapter of #NOAA #2024ArcticReportCard, which found that the tundra is now a net carbon source. #AGU24 🧪 ⬇️ Read more about the chapter's key findings: www.woodwellclimate.org/2024-arctic-...

Photo of tree on permafrost at edge of cliff overlaid with text "Permafrost Pathways researchers at Woodwell Climate led the Arctic Terrestrial Carbon Cycling chapter of NOAA's 2024 Arctic Report Card.
Tundra is now a net carbon source to the atmosphere"

Image of brown and blue landscape in area of thawing permafrost overlaid with text "This report represents a critical step toward quantifying these emissions at scale, which is critical for understanding their impacts on global climate and informing equitable mitigation and adaptation strategies." Dr Sue Natali, Project lead, Permafrost Pathways, Senior Scientist, Woodwell Climate Research Center

Grey, red and brown map depicting "Cumulative burned area of the Arctic Boreal Zone 2004-2024"

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Christina Schädel of @permafrostpathways.bsky.social @woodwellclimate.bsky.social talks about how the Permafrost Carbon Network, which she co-led, uses existing data to develop regional and pan-Arctic summaries of permafrost carbon. #AGU2024🧪 Watch the full doc here: www.permafrostcarbon-aware.org

Image of permafrost researcher Christina Schädel wearing maroon shirt on a projector before audience members. Christina, a co-PI of the Permafrost Carbon Network for more than a decade, was interviewed as part of a documentary on the international researcher network.

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Great to be back at the Permafrost Carbon Network meeting today with collaborators and colleagues ahead of #AGU2024!

five panelists sit on stage, the one in the center holding a microphone, and a moderator stands behind a lectern. These early career scientists are leading synthesis efforts to better understand permafrost carbon and Arctic change

A researcher stands at a lectern and discusses a slide on a projector. The screen reads: "Increase in Net Carbon Emissions in the Arctic-Boreal Zone Due to Disturbances: an Expert Assessment. Heidi Rodenhizer et al, presented by Brendan Rogers 2024 PCN Meeting at AGU. In the foreground, a table holds pens, paper, water bottles, coffee cups and hand sanitizer.

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

🗺️ Permafrost Pathways at @woodwellclimate.bsky.social is building GIS capacity w/ Alaska Native community partners w/ support from #Esri + leveraging co-produced maps for Arctic policy change. @deepseadawn.bsky.social @gfiske.bsky.social ⬇️ Read more: permafrost.woodwellclimate.org/arctic-indig...

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

"The Arctic is not only unwell, it's on fire." Thanks to Elchin Jafarov, Jennifer Watts, Edward Alexander, Gustaf Hugelius, Pam Pearson and our many friends who joined us on Permafrost Day and shared why it's so important to phase out fossil fuels to help keep frozen ground and ice frozen.🌏

Presenter in black blazer before three audience members looks at TV screen which shows a permafrost thaw wetland and reads "How Do We Actually Detect & Avoid a CH4 time bomb?" The background behind screen reads "Cryosphere Pavilion"

Photo of presenter wearing traditional Gwich'in vest behind lectern looking at screen that reads "The Arctic is not only unwell, it's on fire." Behind screen, a white backdrop reads CRYOSPHERE PAVILION

Photo of presenter in black blazer and white shirt behind lectern and before audience members. Next to him a screen shows a slide labeled "DVM-DOS-TEM," and a circumpolar map of Arctic vegetation. Backdrop reads "CRYOSPHERE PAVILION"

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This year, our team added towers in the Canadian High Arctic at Qausuittuq (Resolute Bay) and Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet) Nunavut and helped extend the long-term data record being collected near Council, Alaska.

Four people work on a green-brown tundra to install solar panels and a small wind turbine to help power a flux monitoring tower. Various equipment and storage cases are arrayed around them.

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

🧪The carbon budgets being discussed at #COP29 these next 2 weeks may seem abstract at times, so we wanted to share part of our role in that math: it features very not-abstract towers like this! Flux monitoring towers track the exchange of gases between land and atmosphere -- how Earth is breathing

A white and silver eddy co-variance tower with weather station stands at the end of a brown boardwalk in the tussock tundra under low-ceiling clouds near Council, Alaska

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Permafrost Pathways @permafrostpathways.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Great discussion about addressing #Arctic climate impacts collectively and equitably with #Indigenous peoples at the table as part of the latest Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program update with our model team lead Elchin Jafarov and Edward Alexander, co-chair of Gwich'in Council International.

Two panelists sit before a white backdrop that reads "Climate Change and Cryosphere" as audience members look on at COP29.

Man in blazer and white shirt stands behind podium and before posters that read "Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme" and "Adaptation at Altitude" at COP29

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