EP006
Changing Permafrost Landscapes
Changing Permafrost Landscapes
Session ID#: 256837
Session Description:
Permafrost underlies a large portion of Earth’s surface in high latitude and high altitude landscapes. Landscape change in these regions has significant implications for terrestrial and nearshore marine environments, infrastructure, communities, and possibly Earth’s climate. Permafrost exerts a strong control on landscape dynamics, various geomorphic processes, and a variety of physical feedback mechanisms across a range of spatial and temporal scales. However, the details of how permafrost specifically influences geomorphic processes from the local to landscape scale are not well constrained. Furthermore, the effects of changing environmental drivers on permafrost, landscapes, and coupled future trajectories are difficult to predict. This session aims to bring together researchers focusing on changing permafrost landscapes to understand how permafrost, landscapes, and the feedbacks that shape them are responding to a changing climate. We welcome contributions studying permafrost landscapes via field observations, remote sensing, experimental, and modeling techniques.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- C - Cryosphere
- GC - Global Environmental Change
- H - Hydrology
- SY - Science and Society
Index Terms:
0702 Permafrost [CRYOSPHERE]
1823 Frozen ground [HYDROLOGY]
1824 Geomorphology: general [HYDROLOGY]
1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener: Anastasia Piliouras, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, University Park, PA, United States
Conveners: Anastasia Piliouras, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, University Park, PA, United States and Marisa Nicole Repasch, University of New Mexico, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Albuquerque, United States
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