The
Yamal peninsula, northwestern Siberia, is a landscape in transition. Permafrost
conditions are expected to change within this century due to climate warming. Human
activities have increased in Western Siberia during recent decades due to gas
and oil exploration. Land surface dynamics including e.g. landslides and wetlands
and their relation to the underlying permafrost are investigated within the
COLD Yamal project which is an Austrian-Russian joint research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, I1401-N29) and the Russian Foundation for
Basic Research (RFBR, 13-05-91001-AH8 a). The Earth Cryosphere Institute has been
involved in longterm permafrost monitoring in this region for more than 30 years
and has established a comprehensive geospatial database. Modern remote sensing
technologies specifically microwave remote sensing will be used to further
develop monitoring schemes in this region. Project leader Austria: Annett Bartsch Project leader Russia: Marina Leibman |
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Partners  Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik, Wien  Earth Cryosphere Institute, Russian Academy of Science  Department of Geoinformatics and Z-GIS, University of Salzburg Department of Geodesy and Geoinformatics, Vienna University of Technology | Further cooperation partners Department of Geographical and Historical Studies, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK |
