The environmental and engineering implications of climate change are evident around the globe, but most notable in the polar and sub-polar regions where impact to local communities is direct and acute. Infrastructure designed for this environment requires mitigation to address dynamic surface and subsurface conditions including the thawing, flooding and erosion of permafrost. This session aims to promote novel and emerging near-surface geophysical technologies within the cryosphere at varying scales for addressing such problems as geo-hazard identification and sensitivity, permafrost mapping and siting for civil infrastructure, ice road integrity, stream crossings, earthen dam integrity, sub-arctic landfill contaminant mapping, geothermal energy development, and crevasse mapping for polar mobility. Geophysical technologies like electrical resistivity tomography (ERT), ground-penetrating radar (GPR), electromagnetic induction (EMI), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), seismic, distributed sensor networks, and fiber optic sensing offer the ability to inspect, image, and monitor the subsurface allowing unique insights for surmounting this ever-present problem.

• C - Cryosphere
• H - Hydrology

• EGU: European Geosciences Union -
• GSA: Geological Society of America -
• SEG: Society of Exploration Geophysicists -
• SSSA: Soil Science Society of America -