WeThaw project timeline

The WeThaw team is at the EUCOP5 conference in Chamonix

Elisabeth, Catherine and Sophie present results from the WeThaw project at the 5th European Conference on Permafrost in the French Alps

WeThaw is at the Polar2018 conference in Davos

Sophie gives a Keynote at the Polar2018 conference in Switzerland in the session “Biogeochemical cycling in the Polar Regions: Terrestrial and Ocean interactions”

WeThaw in Louvain[s]

The satellite from Louvain[s] mentions the WeThaw fieldwork in Alaska

The WeThaw team sampling permafrost in Alaska

The WeThaw team has reached the field site at Eight Mile Lake, Alaska

On May 1st, the WeThaw team currently in Alaska has reached the field site at Eight Mile Lake. This early in the season, the lake is still frozen and covered in snow. The thaw season is about to start, and the team is ready to sample this important change in

The WeThaw team is going to Alaska

Three members of the WeThaw team are departing for Alaska this Sunday 29th April to sample the permafrost region of Eight Mile Lake in Interior Alaska, just at the limit between the continuous and the discontinuous permafrost, a place particularly sensitive to permafrost degradation upon thawing.

Preparation for fieldwork with Mr Bottle

The WeThaw team is getting ready to take off for Alaska. Fieldwork preparation involves a lot of help including the one from Mr Bottle.

March 2018 – Symposium coupling Earth system function to climatic change

Presentation of the first results of WeThaw at the Earth System Symposium in Bordeaux, 7-9 March 2018

1 March 2018 – A new member in our team

Welcome to Elisabeth Mauclet, our new team member starting a PhD thesis

Mid February – Characterizing permafrost samples from the thawing experiment

Water is collected prior to the characterization of the soil