Featured on Eos: "Source or Sink? A Review of Permafrost’s Role in the Carbon Cycle"

CBA members Frans-Jan Parmentier and Sebastian Westermann collaborated on a review paper which was highlighted by Eos, the science news magazine published by the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The paper reviews permafrost's role in the carbon cycle and climate change.

Photo of exposed permafrost from Eos.org article

From Eos article: "Exposed permafrost sediments and ice wedges in spring at a bluff near the Itkillik River, northern Alaska. These frozen permafrost sediments contain 50% more carbon than found in the atmosphere but can decompose if they warm and thaw." Photo: Jens Strauss, Alfred Wegener Institute

The entire highlight article (Derouin, S., 2024) can be read on Eos.org.

The original review paper can be found at the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.

Treat, C.C., Virkkala, A.-M., Burke, E., Bruhwiler, L., Chatterjee, A., Fisher, J.B., Hashemi, J., Parmentier, F.-J.W. Rogers, B.M., Westermann, S., Watts, J.D., Blanc-Betes, E., Fuchs, M., Kruse, S., Malhotra, A., Miner, K., Strauss, J., Armstrong, A., Epstein, H.E., Gay, B., Goeckede, M., Kalhori, A., Kou, D., Miller, C.E., Natali, S.M., Oh, Y., Shakil, S., Sonnentag, O., Varner, R.K., Zolkos, S., Schuur, E.A.G., Hugeliuset, G., 2024. Permafrost carbon: Progress on understanding stocks and fluxes across northern terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences,129, e2023JG007638. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JG007638

Published Mar. 18, 2024 1:06 PM - Last modified Mar. 18, 2024 1:06 PM