Webinar Available
Permafrost Collaboration Team
Interagency Ar
ctic Research Policy Committee
2:00 p.m. EDT
This inaugural webinar for the Inte ragency Arctic Research Policy Committee's (IARPC) new Permafrost Collabora tion Team (PCT) will feature a presentation by Torre Jorgenson from Alaska Ecoscience titled "Progress toward understanding t he response of permafrost to climate change in Alaska."
To j oin this webinar attendees must request an account on the IARPC collaborati ons website at: ht tp://www.iarpccollaborations.org/events/7687.
The PCT is a new te am created as part of Arctic Research Plan 2017-2021. The team's scope of a ctivities will include implementation of research objectives and performanc e elements including, improving understanding of how climate, physiography, terrain conditions, vegetation, and patterns of disturbance interact to co ntrol permafrost dynamics; improving and expanding understanding of how war ming and thawing of permafrost influence the vulnerability of soil carbon, including the potential release of carbon dioxide and methane to the atmosp here; continuing to improve integration of empirically measured permafrost processes into models that predict how climate change, hydrology, ecosystem shifts, and disturbances interact within terrestrial and freshwater aquati c systems to impact permafrost evolution, degradation, and feedbacks from l ocal landscapes to the circum-Arctic; and determining how warming and thawi ng permafrost impacts infrastructure and human health.
For more infor mation about the PCT, go to: http://www.iarpccollaborations.org/teams/Permafrost.
For more information about IARPC Collaboration Teams, go to: http://www.iarpccollaboration s.org/index.html.
For questions, contact: Andrew Balser
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