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Connecting science, people and policy for Arctic justice and global climate. A project led by Woodwell Climate Research Center. https://permafrost.woodwellclimate.org/
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🎤 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.

⛰️ We're thrilled that Brooke Woods, Alaska Native fishing rights advocate and Climate Adaptation Specialist at @woodwellclimate.bsky.social, is speaking at #Mountainfilm Festival tomorrow! 🐟 Learn more about Woods, her work advocating for Alaska Native-led salmon fisheries, and the esteemed panel:

We are sending huge congratulations to @gfiske.bsky.social whose maps highlighting Arctic change will be displayed in an iconic mural location in Telluride, CO for an entire year. Here's a peek at the mural unveiled at Mountainfilm this week. (📸 : Stash Wislocki)

🔥The @arcticcouncil.bsky.social released the new issue of Pathways Magazine last week, featuring @gwandaii.bsky.social's work highlighting the impacts of increased #wildfires in the #Arctic. 📖Read the new issue: arctic-council.org/resources/pa...

Thank you @permafrostpathways.bsky.social ! I am very excited that this special issue is out there with articles from RedFire, Community Wildfire Protection Plans from AVF, articles on the Wildland Fire Initiative, the upcoming Expert Group, just a ton of great contributors here.

Congratulations to Edward Alexander @gwandaii.bsky.social for developing this special Arctic issue of #Wildfire magazine in partnership with the #ArcticCouncil and the International Association of Wildland Fire. Sue Natali and Brendan Rogers also authored an article on wildfire and #permafrost thaw.

Excited to be the Mountainfilm 2025 mural artist in Telluride! My mural, "Cartographies of Arctic Change" (a massive 26.5' x 36'!), visualizes our Arctic research. It's going up now on Telco Coffee, a wall previously graced by JR, Gregg Deal, Banksy, and more. Come see it in Telluride!

“Let’s be ambitious enough to work together on wildland fire outside of the initiative in a real way.” Congratulations, Edward Alexander, whose term as Head of Delegation for Gwich'in Council International to the Arctic Council concludes this week. Read his remarks: www.linkedin.com/posts/dinjii...

Ice broke on the Kuskokwim River at Bethel at 410pm AKDT Monday. This is five days earlier than the average break-up date over the past 50 years. The typical break-up nowadays is 8 days earlier than it was in the 1920s. #akwx #Spring2025 @markspringer.bsky.social @egw-b12.bsky.social

Effective immediately, the PGC is no longer accepting new NSF-supported requests due to a lack of renewal funding. Current work is wrapping up. Please contact your NSF program officer if impacted. We’re grateful to have supported your polar research. Read our full statement at www.pgc.umn.edu

"The risks Arctic fires pose on local ecosystems and the communities that depend on them, as well as the destabilizing effect they can have on the global climate, require a rethinking of how fires will be managed in the future." Powerful StoryMap from @gwandaii.bsky.social @gridarendal.bsky.social

🧪 🌊 🌍 🌎 🌏 #geosky

I just briefed an international group of military officials on the importance of permafrost thaw to national and international security. We cannot talk about resilience of climate, food, infrastructure, energy, or governance without thinking about permafrost. Thaw is often rapid and irreversible.

Not every Alaska wildfire season is big, but the frequency of multi-million acre seasons is now about twice compared to 1950-2000. The wildfire season is short with most burning late May to early August. As snowmelt proceeds and the ground dries, the 2025 season will soon be upon us. #akwx #wildfire

Many of Alaska’s coastal villages are experiencing the threat posed by human-caused climate change more acutely than almost anywhere on the planet. That struggle is captured in a new documentary from the PBS program “Frontline,” out Tuesday for Earth Day.

Researchers have found that parts of Alaska are warming at up to four times the rate of most of the world. The shift has left residents of some Alaska Native villages fighting for survival. Read more and watch a video from “Alaska’s Vanishing Native Villages,” premiering tonight on PBS and online:

A look inside Alaska Native villages fighting for survival against climate change. With the Howard Center at ASU, FRONTLINE examines why communities are relocating and why they’re struggling to preserve their traditions. Premieres Tuesday, April 22 on PBS and online.

New publication alert: Co-lead Brendan Rogers edited this new issue from @royalsocietypublishing.org #PhilTransB on changing wildfire regimes. 🔥 One of the global hotspots of fire regime change? The Arctic and boreal regions. Full issue available here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

🎉 This month, Permafrost Pathways is celebrating three years of co-creating equitable solutions to permafrost thaw! ⬇️ Read more about our exciting progress and ongoing work: permafrost.woodwellclimate.org/how-do-we-cr...

Riverbank stabilization, lead and asbestos contamination are just some of the projects tribes planned to address before the Trump administration froze funds.

Congratulations to Zoë Dietrich @woodwellclimate.bsky.social on receiving an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! 🙌 Read about how Zoë came to design and test floating methane chambers in her own words. Great depiction of the collaboration that powers science: www.woodwellclimate.org/zoe-dietrich...

Very cool!! 🎙️

📨 This week’s publication by Lynn Heller: “Thawing Grounds, Rising Stakes: The Importance of Including #Permafrost Emissions in #Climate Policy” 🌱 🔗 Find the full #article, that is part of TAI’s Planetary Series 2025, below! ⤵️ www.thearcticinstitute.org/thawing-grou...

Nice video summary of the more than 10 years of the #Permafrost Carbon Network (PCN), an international researcher network, and some important insights of why permafrost carbon matters in the climate system.

📹 Learn about the synthesis #science the Permafrost Carbon Network is doing to connect data from individual experiments to help answer questions about change across the #Arctic. @schaedelc.bsky.social explains: youtu.be/23kR6QPi6HI?...

🧵 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

Exciting news: Alaska’s Changing Wildfire Environment 2.0 from the Alaska Fire Science Consortium is now online. The report is full of updated information on many aspects of wildfire and wildfire management in Alaska. Available online and as a pdf. #akwx #Alaska #wildfire www.frames.gov/afsc/ACWE

Don't forget to come support the NNA undergraduate research students tomorrow, March 28, if you're still at the ICARP Summit!

New paper alert! Zombie fires overwinter, going underground to smolder through winter before reemerging. Until recently, we knew these fires occurred but knew little of their ecological or carbon impacts. Along with my amazing coauthors, we set out to change this. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The FLUXNET Early Career Network (FLUXNET-ECN) is excited to announce “Bridging the Gap: Flux Data Meets Land Surface Models”, a three-day in-person workshop August 6-8th, 2025 focused on integrating flux data for validating and parameterizing land surface models.

📈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

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

Great to hear multiple shout-outs at the ICARP-IV opening panel for Dr. Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq's guide to Equitable #Arctic Research. You can learn more and access the guide at @arcus-arctic.bsky.social: www.arcus.org/arctic-info/... #ASSW2025

Overwintering ‘zombie fires’ aren’t doing what we thought they’d do A major new study of NWT wildfires that smoulder through the winter surprised the scientists involved and has some lessons for the territory's firefighters.

Make a difference this summer -- Join @cmshintani.bsky.social and me for an internship at @woodwellclimate.bsky.social and contribute to critical research on climate change. Apply now: bit.ly/4l5D93W