Permafrost and Climate Change in the Antarctic Peninsula | PERMANTAR-3
Projeto financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (PTDC/AAC-GLO/3908/2012)
Period: April 2013 - October 2015
Leading institution
Centro de Estudos Geográficos – Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Universidade de Lisboa
Participating institutions
Centro de Geofísica da Universidade de Lisboa – Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Centro de Geofísica de Évora - Universidade de Évora
Departamento de Física - Universidade de Alcalá de Henares (Espanha)
Bulgarian Antarctic Institute (Bulgária)
Universidade de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Universidade Federal de Viçosa (Brazil)
Universidade de Wisconsin-Madison (E.U.A.)
Centro de Estudos Geográficos – Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Universidade de Lisboa
Participating institutions
Centro de Geofísica da Universidade de Lisboa – Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Centro de Geofísica de Évora - Universidade de Évora
Departamento de Física - Universidade de Alcalá de Henares (Espanha)
Bulgarian Antarctic Institute (Bulgária)
Universidade de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Universidade Federal de Viçosa (Brazil)
Universidade de Wisconsin-Madison (E.U.A.)
Team members
Centro de Estudos Geográficos – Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Universidade de Lisboa
Gonçalo VIEIRA (Principal Investigator)
Ana DAVID
Alice FERREIRA
Inês GIRÃO
Carla MORA
Mário NEVES
Alexandre NIEUWENDAM
Marc OLIVA
Gonçalo PRATES
Centro de Geofísica da Universidade de Lisboa – Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
João CATALÃO
Ana Rita REIS
Cláudio SANTOS
Centro de Geofísica de Évora - Universidade de Évora
António CORREIA
André FONSECA
Departamento de Física - Universidade de Alcalá de Henares (Espanha)
Miguel RAMOS
Miguel Angel DE PABLO
Bulgarian Antarctic Institute (Bulgária)
Ahinora BALTAKOVA
Rositza KENDEROVA
Christo PIMPIREV
Universidade de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Alberto CASELLI
Gabriel GOYANES
Universidade Federal de Viçosa (Brazil)
Carlos SCHAEFER
Márcio FRANCELINO
Felipe SIMAS
University of Sheffield (U.K.)
Andrew HODSON
Agnieszka NOWAK
Universidade de Wisconsin-Madison (E.U.A.)
James BOCKHEIM
Centro de Estudos Geográficos – Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Universidade de Lisboa
Gonçalo VIEIRA (Principal Investigator)
Ana DAVID
Alice FERREIRA
Inês GIRÃO
Carla MORA
Mário NEVES
Alexandre NIEUWENDAM
Marc OLIVA
Gonçalo PRATES
Centro de Geofísica da Universidade de Lisboa – Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
João CATALÃO
Ana Rita REIS
Cláudio SANTOS
Centro de Geofísica de Évora - Universidade de Évora
António CORREIA
André FONSECA
Departamento de Física - Universidade de Alcalá de Henares (Espanha)
Miguel RAMOS
Miguel Angel DE PABLO
Bulgarian Antarctic Institute (Bulgária)
Ahinora BALTAKOVA
Rositza KENDEROVA
Christo PIMPIREV
Universidade de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Alberto CASELLI
Gabriel GOYANES
Universidade Federal de Viçosa (Brazil)
Carlos SCHAEFER
Márcio FRANCELINO
Felipe SIMAS
University of Sheffield (U.K.)
Andrew HODSON
Agnieszka NOWAK
Universidade de Wisconsin-Madison (E.U.A.)
James BOCKHEIM
Abstract
Permafrost is one of the Essential Climate Variables defined by the GTOS and its global significance is now widely recognized. It occupies over 20% of the continental area of the Northern Hemisphere (NH), virtually all glacier-free Antarctic areas and large parts of Earth's high mountains. The surficial layer that freezes and thaws seasonally on top of permafrost (the active layer) is thickening in large regions of the NH. Subsequent permafrost warming is occurring, but consequences to climate are still poorly understood. Recent estimates indicate that boreal and Arctic permafrost soils contain twice the atmosphere's carbon content (Schuur et al 2009) and that with warming a significant increase in methane and carbon dioxide fluxes may be observed. A warming permafrost also influences profoundly terrestrial ecossystems, with widespread changes in hydrology, ecology and terrain stability, specially following ice-rich permafrost degradation.
In order to better understand permafrost dynamics, the IPA coordinates the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P) and the Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring System (CALM). Hundreds of permafrost temperature monitoring boreholes and active layer monitoring sites are maintained, mostly in the NH. There are 75 GTN-P boreholes and 18 CALM sites in Antarctica, most of them installed during the IPY and still with a short data series. In the Antarctic Peninsula, only 6 boreholes are deeper than 10m and 4 of them are maintained by the PERMANTAR team. The Portuguese funded projects Permadrill, Permantar and Permantar-2, which precede this proposal, have contributed to the implementation of GTN-P and CALM in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Several new boreholes and CALM sites have been (and are being) installed in a collaborative effort with Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and the United States. The success has been such, that a consortium of permafrost research projects framed within IPA and SCAR working groups has developed. Such an integrated approach, besides contributing to the installation of infrastructure, contributed for the first insight into the permafrost thermal state in the Antarctic (Vieira et al 2010).
It is now becoming clear that the Antarctic Peninsula, one of Earth's regions where air temperature has increased the most in the last 60 years shows a very high sensitivity of permafrost to warming. In the South Shetlands, permafrost temperatures are just below freezing and therefore permafrost degradation is prone to occur. Consequences in the terrestrial ecosystems are still unknown, but changes in hydrology, carbon storage (net sink due to vegetation expansion?) and geomorphological dynamics are expected. The region is therefore a key natural laboratory for understanding permafrost's reaction to climate change and quite different to the Arctic, with the unique influence on physical and life processes of the Southern Ocean. PERMANTAR-3 builds-up on previous projects and on strong collaborations, with the real involvement of international partners in planning, field work, data analysis and dissemination of results. PhD students and post-doc researchers benefit from these dynamics and critical mass is building up. The invitation for Portugal to organize the 4th European Conference on Permafrost in 2014 supports the importance of our contribution.
The present proposal focuses on maintaining and upgrading several GTN-P and CALM sites in the Antarctic Peninsula region, but also on contributing to new questions that developed from on-going work. In this sense, PERMANTAR-3 is more than a monitoring project, but an integrated approach aiming at science deliverables dealing with Antarctic permafrost reaction to a changing climate. PERMANTAR's scope is now enlarged into a latitudinal gradient from 61º to 65ºS in the western Antarctic Peninsula, where we aim at more than traditional focus on permafrost temperature monitoring. Variables linked to permafrost dynamics and modelling will be approached in a more integrated way than before and using state-of-the-art techniques: snow cover dynamics from the local to the regional scale, active layer moisture content, ice-content at the transient layer and changing rates of geomorphic processes.
PERMANTAR-3 focusses on a set of target questions along the latitudinal gradient, that will guide our research:
1) Where is the boundary between continuous and discontinuous permafrost?
2) How does the climatic sensitivity of permafrost changes?
3) What is the role of late lying snow patches at the continuous permafrost boundary?
4) How does soil moisture varies seasonally in the active layer?
5) How does ground-ice content occur in the transient layer and what are the consequences for permafrost degradation?
6) Can accurate terrain deformation rates be derived by means of DInSAR with regional significance in the AP?
7) Can key geomorphic units used as geo-indicators of climate change in the AP?
In order to better understand permafrost dynamics, the IPA coordinates the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P) and the Circumpolar Active Layer Monitoring System (CALM). Hundreds of permafrost temperature monitoring boreholes and active layer monitoring sites are maintained, mostly in the NH. There are 75 GTN-P boreholes and 18 CALM sites in Antarctica, most of them installed during the IPY and still with a short data series. In the Antarctic Peninsula, only 6 boreholes are deeper than 10m and 4 of them are maintained by the PERMANTAR team. The Portuguese funded projects Permadrill, Permantar and Permantar-2, which precede this proposal, have contributed to the implementation of GTN-P and CALM in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Several new boreholes and CALM sites have been (and are being) installed in a collaborative effort with Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and the United States. The success has been such, that a consortium of permafrost research projects framed within IPA and SCAR working groups has developed. Such an integrated approach, besides contributing to the installation of infrastructure, contributed for the first insight into the permafrost thermal state in the Antarctic (Vieira et al 2010).
It is now becoming clear that the Antarctic Peninsula, one of Earth's regions where air temperature has increased the most in the last 60 years shows a very high sensitivity of permafrost to warming. In the South Shetlands, permafrost temperatures are just below freezing and therefore permafrost degradation is prone to occur. Consequences in the terrestrial ecosystems are still unknown, but changes in hydrology, carbon storage (net sink due to vegetation expansion?) and geomorphological dynamics are expected. The region is therefore a key natural laboratory for understanding permafrost's reaction to climate change and quite different to the Arctic, with the unique influence on physical and life processes of the Southern Ocean. PERMANTAR-3 builds-up on previous projects and on strong collaborations, with the real involvement of international partners in planning, field work, data analysis and dissemination of results. PhD students and post-doc researchers benefit from these dynamics and critical mass is building up. The invitation for Portugal to organize the 4th European Conference on Permafrost in 2014 supports the importance of our contribution.
The present proposal focuses on maintaining and upgrading several GTN-P and CALM sites in the Antarctic Peninsula region, but also on contributing to new questions that developed from on-going work. In this sense, PERMANTAR-3 is more than a monitoring project, but an integrated approach aiming at science deliverables dealing with Antarctic permafrost reaction to a changing climate. PERMANTAR's scope is now enlarged into a latitudinal gradient from 61º to 65ºS in the western Antarctic Peninsula, where we aim at more than traditional focus on permafrost temperature monitoring. Variables linked to permafrost dynamics and modelling will be approached in a more integrated way than before and using state-of-the-art techniques: snow cover dynamics from the local to the regional scale, active layer moisture content, ice-content at the transient layer and changing rates of geomorphic processes.
PERMANTAR-3 focusses on a set of target questions along the latitudinal gradient, that will guide our research:
1) Where is the boundary between continuous and discontinuous permafrost?
2) How does the climatic sensitivity of permafrost changes?
3) What is the role of late lying snow patches at the continuous permafrost boundary?
4) How does soil moisture varies seasonally in the active layer?
5) How does ground-ice content occur in the transient layer and what are the consequences for permafrost degradation?
6) Can accurate terrain deformation rates be derived by means of DInSAR with regional significance in the AP?
7) Can key geomorphic units used as geo-indicators of climate change in the AP?
Tasks
- TASK 1 – PROJECT AND OBSERVATIONAL NETWORK MANAGEMENT
- TASK 2 – SNOW AND PERMAFROST
- TASK 3 – PERMAFROST AND ACTIVE LAYER DYNAMICS
- TASK 4 – GEOINDICATORS OF PERMAFROST AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Project activities from the field (in Portuguese)
PERMANTAR-3 scientists working in the field regularly contributed to the Portuguese Antarctic Campaign blogs that are hosted at http://www.propolar.org.
Blog: http://www.propolar.org/notiacutecias/category/permantar397ef759eb3
Field season 2013-14: http://www.propolar.org/permantar-3.html
Field season 2014-15: http://www.propolar.org/permantar-31.html
Blog: http://www.propolar.org/notiacutecias/category/permantar397ef759eb3
Field season 2013-14: http://www.propolar.org/permantar-3.html
Field season 2014-15: http://www.propolar.org/permantar-31.html
Publications
PhD theses
MS theses
Sousa C.Caracterização 3D de movimentos de massa em terrenos com permafrost nas ilhas Shetlands do Sul (1956-2010) através de deteção remota na banda do visível. Mestrado em Geomática, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade do Algarve. Orientadores: Prof. Gonçalo Prates e Prof. Gonçalo Vieira. Submitted in September 2015.
Articles in peer-reviewed ISI journals and books
In preparation
Articles in peer-reviewed national journals (SCOPUS)
Books
Articles in Proceedings of International Conferences
Presentations in international conferences with peer-reviewed abstracts
Presentations in national conferences
- Goyanes G. 2015. Control climático e interacciones permafrost-volcanismo, isla Decepción, Antártida. Doutoramento em Ciencias Geológicas, Universidade de Buenos Aires. Orientadores: Prof. A. Caselli e Prof. G. Goyanes. http://digital.bl.fcen.uba.ar/gsdl-282/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=tesis&d=Tesis_5676_Goyanes
MS theses
- Girão I. 2015. Padrões espaciais da neve durante o Verão nas áreas livres de gelo das ilhas Shetlands do Sul (Antártida). Mestrado em Sistemas de Informação Geográfica e Modelação Territorial aplicados ao Ordenamento, Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território – Universidade de Lisboa.
Sousa C.Caracterização 3D de movimentos de massa em terrenos com permafrost nas ilhas Shetlands do Sul (1956-2010) através de deteção remota na banda do visível. Mestrado em Geomática, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade do Algarve. Orientadores: Prof. Gonçalo Prates e Prof. Gonçalo Vieira. Submitted in September 2015.
Articles in peer-reviewed ISI journals and books
- Reis, AR, Catalão, J., Vieira, G., Nico, G., 2015. Mitigation of atmospheric phase delay in INSAR time series using ERA-Interim Model, GPS and MODIS data: application to the permafrost deformation in Hurd peninsula, Antartica. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARS2015, Milan, Italy, Session Sea Ice I, 13-18 July 2015.
- Schollaen K, Vieira G, Lewkowicz AG. 2014. Report from the International Permafrost Association: Fourth European Conference on Permafrost (EUCOP4). Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 10/2014; 25(4).
In preparation
- Correia A, Vieira G, Goyanes (in prep) - Recent permafrost aggradation in Deception Island following the eruptions of 1970. To be submitted to Permafrost and Periglacial Processes (Jan 2016).
- Correia A, Vieira G, Nieuwendam A, Ferreira A (in prep) – Ground thermal regime and permafrost in the lower boundary of permafrost, Livingston Island, Antarctica. To be submitted to Geomorphology (Feb 2016).
- Ferreira A, Vieira G, Ramos M (in prep). N-factors and TTOP modelling in Hurd Peninsula (Livingston Island, Maritime Antarctic), to be submitted to Permafrost and Periglacial Processes (Dec 2015).
- Ferreira A, Vieira G, Ramos M (in prep). Permafrost temperatures in Northwestern Antarctic Peninsula. The Cryosphere (Feb 2016)
- Girão I, Vieira G, Schaeffer C. (in prep). Geographical controls on summer snow melt patterns in the ice-free areas of the South Shetlands. To be submitted to Geografiska Annaler, Series A (Dec 2015)
- Goyanes , G, G. Vieira, A. Caselli, A. Ferreira, D. Winocur, A. Marmy , M. Cardoso, R. Brasil, A. David, R. Melo. Spatial analysis of the distribution of periglacial landforms and processes on na active volcano, Deception Island, Antarctic. To be submitted to Geomorphology in November 2015.
- Goyanes , G, G. Vieira, A. Caselli. Geomorphological map of Deception Island, to be sumbitted to The Journal of Maps in November 2015.
- Hodson A, Nowak A, Sabacka M, Jungblut A, Pearce D, Convey P, Vieira, G. In Prep. Runoff as a vector for iron delivery to maritime Antarctic coastal waters: controls, concentrations and potential fluxes, Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
- Hodson A, Nowak A, Sabacka M, Pearce D, Convey P, Vieira, G. In Prep. Bio-optical and biogeochemical properties of Antarctic snow: a comparison of coastal and glacial snowpacks on Livingston Island, Biogeochemistry.
- Mora, C., Vieira, G., Jímenez, JJ, Pina, P., Fernandes, JC, Schaefer C. TerraSAR-X imagery for snowpatch detection and nivation studies in polar high cloudiness environments (Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, Antarctica). To be submitted to Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research in December 2015.
- Nieuwendam A., Ramos M, Vieira G. in prep. Interannual changes in snow cover and its impact on ground surface temperatures in Livingston Island (Antarctica). Catena Special issue on “Active layer thermal regime and seasonal frost dynamics in cold-climate environments” (December 2015).
- Sousa C, Prates G, Vieira G. Reconstruction of rockglacier deformation since 1956/57 using Structure from Motion Techniques, South Shetlands, Antarctica. To be submitted to Journal TBD, December 2015.
- Ramos M, Vieira G, de Pablo MA, Molina A., Abramov A. Interannual variability of the active layer temperatures at the Crater Lake CALM site, Deception Island (Antarctica). Catena Special issue on “Active layer thermal regime and seasonal frost dynamics in cold-climate environments” (December 2015).
Articles in peer-reviewed national journals (SCOPUS)
- Goyanes, G., Vieira, G., Caselli, A., Mora, C., Ramos, M., de Pablo, M.A., Neves, M., Santos, F., Bernardo, I., Gilichinsky, D., Abramov, A., Batista, V., Melo, R., Trindade Nieuwendam, A., Ferreira, A. y Oliva, M. 2013. Régimen térmico y variabilidad espacial de la capa activa en isla Decepción, Antártida. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina. ISSN 0004-4822
- Mora C. 2015. 4th European Conference on Permafrost (EUCOP4). 18 a 21 de Junho de 2014 em Évora. Finisterra, 99: 172-176.
Books
- Vieira, G., Pina, P., Mora, C., Correia, A. (eds.). 2014. EUCOP4 – Book of abstracts. University of Lisbon and University of Évora, 520pp. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4653594/EUCOP4/2%20EUCOP4%20Book%20of%20Abstracts.pdf
Articles in Proceedings of International Conferences
- Ferreira, A., Vieira, G., Ramos, M. 2014. Dinâmica estival da cobertura de neve nas áreas não glaciadas da Peninsula Hurd (Livinsgton Island, Antarctica). Advances, métodos y técnicas en el estudio del periglaciarismo. A. Gómez Ortiz et al. (coords.) In IV Congreso Ibérico I.P.A. Nuria. Universitat de Barcelona.
Presentations in international conferences with peer-reviewed abstracts
- Bandeira, L., Vieira, G., Pina, P., Hong, S.G., Kim HC. 2014. Acquisition and processing of ultra-high resolution images with UAVs for detailed and extensive surface mapping and change detection in Barton Peninsula. SCAR Open Science Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 25-28 August 2014.
- Biskaborn BK, Lanckman JP, Lantuit H, Romanovsky V, Sergeev D, Vieira G, Cable W, Pogliotti P, Nötzli J,
- Catalão J, Vieira G. 2014. InSAR analysis of surface displacement of rock glaciers (South Shetlands, Antarctica). Book of Abstracts of EUCOP4 – 4th European Conference on Permafrost, 18-21 June 2014 – Évora, Portugal: 371.
- Christiansen HH, Jóhannsson H. 2015. Quality assessment of permafrost thermal state and active layer thickness data in GTN-P. GeoQuebec 2015, Québec, Canada, September.
- Correia A, Vieira G, Goyanes G, David A. 2014. Recent permafrost aggradation in Deception Island, Antarctica. Results of geoelectrical surveys in the area of Craters 70. Book of Abstracts of EUCOP4 – 4th European Conference on Permafrost, 18-21 June 2014 – Évora, Portugal: 332.
- Correia, A., Vieira, G. 2014. Three years of electrical resistivity monitoring in a CALM site in Livingston Island (Maritime Antarctica). SCAR Open Science Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 25-28 August 2014.
- David A, Vieira G. 2014. Modeling the distribution of Usnea sp in Hurd Península, Livingston Island, Antarctic. Book of Abstracts of EUCOP4 – 4th European Conference on Permafrost, 18-21 June 2014 – Évora, Portugal: 363.
- David, A., Vieira, G. 2014. Modelling the distribution of Usnea spp. In Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island, Antarctic. SCAR Open Science Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 25-28 August 2014.
- Ferreira A, Vieira G, Ramos M. 2014. Towards a TTOP model of Hurd Peninsula (Livingston Island, Maritime Antarctic). Book of Abstracts of EUCOP4 – 4th European Conference on Permafrost, 18-21 June 2014 – Évora, Portugal: 451.
- Ferreira A., Vieira G, Ramos M. 2014. Ground surface temperature controls and permafrost distribution in Livingston Island (Maritime Antarctic). Book of Abstracts of EUCOP4 – 4th European Conference on Permafrost, 18-21 June 2014 – Évora, Portugal: 174.
- Ferreira, A., Vieira G., Ramos, M., de Pablo, M., Goyanes, G. 2013. Impact of the timing and duration of snow cover on ground surface and active layer thermal regimes in Livingston and Deception islands (Maritime Antarctic).IV Congreso Ibérico de la International Permafrost Association. “Avanços, métodos e técnicas no estudo de periglaciarismo". Núria, Pirineus orientais (Espanha).
- Ferreira, A., Vieira, G., & Ramos, M. (2015). Advances in a TTOP model of Hurd Peninsula (South Shetland Island, Antarctica). V Congreso Ibérico de la International Permafrost Association, Valladolid, 24 - 26 Junho de 2015
- Girão I, Vieira G, Hong SG, Schaefer C. 2015. Topoclimate controls on the spatial pattern of snow patches during the melting season (South Shetlands, Antarctica). V Congreso Ibérico de la International Permafrost Associaction, Valladolid, Junio 2015
- Goyanes G, Vieira G, Caselli A, Winocur D, Cardoso M, Marmy A. 2014. Periglacial processes and landforms at Deception Island volcano, Maritime Antarctica. Book of Abstracts of EUCOP4 – 4th European Conference on Permafrost, 18-21 June 2014 – Évora, Portugal: 101.
- Goyanes G, Vieira G, Caselli A, Winocur D, Cardoso M, Marmy A, Bernardo I, Hauck C. 2014. Geothermal anomalies and ground thermal regime at Irizar Alluvial Fan, Deception Island (Antarctica). Book of Abstracts of EUCOP4 – 4th European Conference on Permafrost, 18-21 June 2014 – Évora, Portugal: 176.
- Goyanes, G., Vieira, G. y Caselli, A. 2013. Anomalías geotérmicas y régimen térmico superficial del suelo en un área con permafrost, isla Decepción, Antártida Marítima. IV Congreso Ibérico de la International Permafrost Association: Avances, métodos y técnicas en el estudio del periglaciarismo, Vall de Ribes, Catalunya, España, 25, 26 y 27 Junio. 41
- Goyanes, G., Vieira, G. y Caselli, A. 2013. Thermal state and active layer thickness in Collado Irizar, Deception Island, Antarctica: 2009-2013 period. VII Congreso Latinoamericano de Ciencia Antártica, La Serena, Chile, 4-6 Septiembre. Pág. 137-140.
- Jimenez JJ, Mora C, Ferreira A, Vieira G, Ramos M. 2015. Análisis multitemporal de la cobertura nival en entornos deglaciados mediante imágenes TerraSAR X (Antártida Marítima). V Congreso Ibérico de la International Permafrost Associaction, Valladolid, Junio 2015.
- Jiménez JJ, Ramos M, de Pablo MA, Vieira G, Molina A. 2014. Enthalpic method and microclimatic variability in Livingston Island. A decade of experimental monitoring in the vicinity of SAS Juan Carlos I (Antarctica). Book of Abstracts of EUCOP4 – 4th European Conference on Permafrost, 18-21 June 2014 – Évora, Portugal: 158.
- Manuel, J., Catalão, J., Vieira, G., 2014. InSAR analysis of surface displacement of rock glaciers (South Shetlands, Antarctica). EUCOP4, European Conference on Permafrost, 18-21 June, 2014, Évora, Portugal.
- Mora C, Vieira G, Lopes A, Nieuwendam A, Ferreira A, David A. 2015. Wind regimes and nivo-eolian corrasion in maritime Antarctic (Hurd peninsula, Livingston Island). XII International Symposium on Antartic Earth Sciences, 13-17 July Goa, India.
- Mora C, Vieira G, Pina P, Catalão J. 2014. Detailed mapping of snow cover as a contribution for identifying ground thermal regimes in high cloudiness Polar environments. Results from C and X-band microwave imagery in the South Shetlands (Antarctica). Book of Abstracts of EUCOP4 – 4th European Conference on Permafrost, 18-21 June 2014 – Évora, Portugal: 172.
- Mora, C., Jimenez, JJ, Catalão Fernandes, J., Ferreira, A., David, A, Ramos, M. Vieira, G. 2014. Summer snowmelt patterns in the South Shetlands using TerraSAR-X imagery. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 15-19 December.
- Mora, C., Vieira, G., Pina, P., Catalão, J., Ferreira A., David, A. 2014. TerraSAR-X high resolution snow patch mapping in high cloudiness environments: results from King George, Livingston and Deception islands (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica). SCAR Open Science Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 25-28 August 2014.
- Nieuwendam A, M. Ramos, G. Vieira. 2015. Interannual changes in snow cover and its impact on ground surface temperatures in Livingston Island (Antarctica). EGU, Vienna.
- Nieuwendam A, Ramos M, Vieira G. 2014. Seasonal snow cover variability and its impact on ground surface temperature regimes in Hurd Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctic). Book of Abstracts of EUCOP4 – 4th European Conference on Permafrost, 18-21 June 2014 – Évora, Portugal: 168.
- Nieuwendam, M. Ramos, G. Vieira. 2014. Impact of the variability of the seasonal snow cover on the ground surface regimes in Hurd Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctic). EGU, Vienna.
- Prates G, Vieira G, Catalão J, Francelino M. 2014. Assessment of photogrammetric techniques for rock-glacier creep monitoring (South Shetlands, Antarctica). Book of Abstracts of EUCOP4 – 4th European Conference on Permafrost, 18-21 June 2014 – Évora, Portugal: 369.
- Ramos M, de Pablo MA, Vieira G, Molina A, Abramov A. 2014. Interannual thermal evolution of the permafrost and active layer at the Crater Lake CALM Site, Deception Island, Antarctica. Book of Abstracts of EUCOP4 – 4th European Conference on Permafrost, 18-21 June 2014 – Évora, Portugal: 371.
- Reis A.R., J. Catalão, G. Vieira, G. Nico, 2015. Mitigation of atmospheric phase delay in InSAR time series using ERA-interim model, GPS and MODIS data: application to the permafrost deformation in Hurd peninsula, Antarctica. 9th International Workshop Fringe 2015, Advances in the Science and Applications of SAR Interferometry and Sentinel-1 InSAR Workshop, 23-27 March, ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Rome, Italy. Link: http://seom.esa.int/fringe2015/page_session13.php.
- Vieira G, Baltakova A, Batista V, Bockheim J, Caselli A, Catalão J, Correia A, David A, Ferreira A, Hodson A, Goyanes G, Kenderova R, Mora C, Neves M, Nieuwendam A, Nowak A, Oliva M, de Pablo MA, Pimpirev C, Prates G, Ramos M, Santos F, Schaefer C, Simas F. 2014. Permafrost and climate change in the Antarctic Peninsula region (PERMANTAR-3). Book of Abstracts of EUCOP4 – 4th European Conference on Permafrost, 18-21 June 2014 – Évora, Portugal: 478.
- Vieira G, Catalão J, Prates G, Correia A. 2014. Monitoring the surface deformation of Hurd rockglacier using D-GPS measurements and D-INSAR: first results (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Book of Abstracts of EUCOP4 – 4th European Conference on Permafrost, 18-21 June 2014 – Évora, Portugal: 197.
- Vieira G, Catalão J, Prates G, Ferreira A, David A, Correia A, Reis AR, Sousa C. 2015. Rates and significance of rockglacier deformation in Hurd Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctic). XII International Symposium on Antartic Earth Sciences, 13-17 July Goa, India
- Vieira G, Catalão J., Correia A., Prates G. 2014. Rockglacier and stone-banked lobe movements in Hurd Peninsula (Livingston Island, Antarctica). First results. SCAR Open Science Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 25-28 August 2014.
- Vieira G, Ramos M, Goyanes G, Catalão J, Correia A, Bockheim, Schaefer C, Baltakova A, Branco J, Caselli A, David A, Ferreira A, Francelino M, Girão I, Hodson A, Kenderova R, Mora C, Neves M, Nieuwendam A, Nowak A, Oliva M, De Pablo MA, Pimpirev C, Prates G, Reis AR, Santos C, Simas F. 2015. Permafrost and climate change in the Antarctic Peninsula. Recent advances from PERMANTAR-3. V Congreso Ibérico de la International Permafrost Associaction, Valladolid, Junio 2015
- Vieira, G. 2014. Deteção remota de alta resolução para o estudo da dinâmica das regiões frias e de montanha. 1as Jornadas Lusófonas de Ciências e Tecnologias de Informação Geográfica, Coimbra, 11-13 de Setembro de 2014.
- Vieira, G. 2014. High resolution mapping of ice-free environments: examples from the West Antarctic Peninsula region. SCAR mini symposium on Innovation in Antarctic Science, Auckland New Zealand, 28 August.
- Vieira, G., Catalão J., Prates, G., Correia, A. 2014. Monitoring the surface deformation of Hurd rockglacier using D-GPS measurements and D-INSAR: first results (Livingston Island, Antarctica). Geophysical Research Abstracts 2014, European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna.
- Vieira, G., Mora, C., Pina, P., Bandeira, L., Hong, SG. 2014. Geomorphology and vegetation mapping the ice-free terrains of the Western Antarctic Peninsula region using very high resolution imagery from an UAV. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 15-19 December.
- Vieira, G., Pina P., Canário, J., Bandeira, L., Mora, C., Neves, M., Oliva, M., Prates, G., Fonseca, I., Martin, J., Nieuwendam, A., Ferreira, A. 2014. 3D Antartida - Mapping and monitoring the ice-free areas of the Antarctic Peninsula region: from crowdfunding to data acquisition. SCAR Open Science Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 25-28 August 2014.
Presentations in national conferences
- Azinhaga P., Xavier, J. C.,, Lourenço, S., Vieira, G., David, A.S., Cruz, B., Ferreira, S., Pereira, V., Marques, J.C. 2014. “Profissão: Cientista Polar” e “EDUCAÇÃO PROPOLAR”: Dos Pólos até nós - trazendo a ciência polar para um público mais vasto. SciCom Portugal, Março.
- Azinhaga, P., Ferreira, S., Xaver, J., Canário, J., Guerreiro, P., Vieira, G. 2014. Educação polar e ciência: projetos educativos e experiência com escolas. Workshop Nacional Educação e Ciência: da investigação polar à sala de aula. Coimbra, 1 de Março de 2014, Instituto de Educação e Cidadânia, Lamarrosa.
- Bandeira L., Pina P., Vieira, G. 2014. Using UAVs for detailed and extensive surface mapping in Barton Peninsula. 6ª Conferência Polar Portuguesa, Universidade do Porto, 30-31 de Outubro de 2014.
- Branco J, Vieira G, Hong SG. 2015. Vegetation mapping using high resolution remote sensing imagery (Barton Peninsula, King George Island – Antarctic). 7ª Conferência Portuguesa de Ciência Polares (29 de Outubro de 2015).
- David, A., Vieira, G., Xavier, J., Canário, A., Canário, J. 2014. Supporting Polar research: the contribution of the Portuguese Polar Program (PROPOLAR). 6ª Conferência Polar Portuguesa, Universidade do Porto, 30-31 de Outubro de 2014.
- Ferreira, A., Vieira, G., & Ramos, M. (2014). Towards a TTOP model of Hurd Peninsula (South Shetland Island, Antarctica). In 6ª Conferência Polar Portuguesa, 30-31 Outubro, Porto.
- Ferreira, A., Vieira, G., & Ramos, M. (2015). Advances in TTOP modelling of Hurd Peninsula (South Shetland Island, Antarctica). In 7ª Conferência Polar Portuguesa, 28-29 Outubro, Évora.
- Girão I, Vieira G, Kim H-C, Schaefer C. 2015. Topoclimatic controls on snow distribution during the melting season (Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, South Shetlands, Antarctica, 7ª Conferência Portuguesa de Ciência Polares (29 de Outubro de 2015)
- Goyanes, G., Vieira, G., Caselli, A., Winocur, D., Pérez, D. 2014. Identificacion y monitoreo térmico de las principales anomalías geotérmicas y su correlacion con la utilizacion de sensoriamento remoto, isla Decepcion, Antártida. XIX Congreso Geológico Argentino, Córdoba, 2-6 June 2014.
- Mora C, Vieira G, Lopes A, Nieuwendam A, Ferreira A, David A, Ferreira P. 2015. Wind regimes and nivo-eolian corrasion in the south shetlands islands. 7ª Conferência Portuguesa de Ciências Polares. 28 e 29 Outubro, Évora.
- Mora, C., Vieira, G., Ferreira, A., David, A. 2014. TerraSAR-X as a platform for high resolution summer snow melt mapping: new applications in Hurd Peninsula (Livingston island, Antarctica). 6ª Conferência Polar Portuguesa, Universidade do Porto, 30-31 de Outubro de 2014.
- Pérez, D., Goyanes, G., Caselli, A., Winocur, D., Vieira, G. 2014. Identificacion de anomalias termales mediante el Landsat 7 ETM+, isla Decepcion, region Antártica. XIX Congreso Geológico Argentino, Córdoba, 2-6 June 2014..
- Prates, G., Sousa, C., Vieira, G. Catalão, J. 2014. Assessment of photogrammetric techniques for rock glacier creep monitoring (South Shetlands, Antarctica). 6ª Conferência Polar Portuguesa, Universidade do Porto, 30-31 de Outubro de 2014.
- Ramos M, Vieira G, de Pablo MA, Jiménez JJ, Molina A, Goyanes G, Ferreira A. 2015. Regional mean annual air temperatures and local thermo-mechanical dynamics of the active layer (Livingston and Deception Islands. Antarctica). 7ª Conferência Portuguesa de Ciência Polares (29 de Outubro de 2015).
- Vieira G., Pina P., Bandeira L., Branco J., Girão I, Hong, SG. 2014. Very high resolution remote sensing of Barton Peninsula (King George Island): New results from visible and near infrared surveys using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. 6ª Conferência Polar Portuguesa, Universidade do Porto, 30-31 de Outubro de 2014.
- Vieira, G., Catalão, J., Reis, AR., Prates, G., Correia, A. 2014. Assessment of the spatial variability of surface deformation of Hurd rockglacier using D-INSAR (Livingston Island, Antarctica), 6ª Conferência Polar Portuguesa, Universidade do Porto, 30-31 de Outubro de 2014.
- Xavier, J., Vieira, G., Canário, J., Azinhaga, P., Lourenço, S., Seco, J. 2014. Educação polar e ciência: relações internacionais. Workshop Nacional Educação e Ciência: da investigação polar à sala de aula. Coimbra, 1 de Março de 2014, Instituto de Educação e Cidadânia, Lamarrosa
Other project activities
Organization of international conferences
4th European Conference on Permafrost, International Permafrost Association, Évora, 18-21 June 2014. Publication of book of abstracts, ci. 400 participants from 27 countries (http://www.eucop4.org).
Keynote lectures in international conferences
Keynote lectures in national conferences and events
Organization of courses
Outreach activities in schools
PERMANTAR-3 has been involved in the bi-annual event Polar Weeks organized by the Association of Early Career Polar Scientists (APECS). Lectures have been provided in high schools (or target at high school students):
4th European Conference on Permafrost, International Permafrost Association, Évora, 18-21 June 2014. Publication of book of abstracts, ci. 400 participants from 27 countries (http://www.eucop4.org).
- Vieira, G., Pina, P., Mora, C., Correia, A. (eds.). 2014. EUCOP4 – Book of abstracts. University of Lisbon and University of Évora, 520pp. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4653594/EUCOP4/2%20EUCOP4%20Book%20of%20Abstracts.pdf
Keynote lectures in international conferences
- Hodson, A. 2015. The Ecology and Biogeochemistry of maritime Antarctic Snow. International Polar and Alpine Microbiology Annual Meeting, Ceskje Budejovice, Czech Republic, Sept 2015.
- Hodson, A. 2015. A conceptual model of inorganic nutrient delivery to glaciated Arctic and sub-Antarctic fjords. The Role of Ice in the Sea (ESSAS: “Ecosystem Studies of Sub-Antarctic Seas”: part of the international IMBER Programme: Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research) Annual Science Meeting, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, June 15-17.
- Nieuwendam A. 2013. Polar and mountain permafrost research in the Arctic and Antarctic of the Portuguese research group. Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Research Unit Potsdam, Germany.
- Nieuwendam A. 2013. Permafrost Research in the Antarctic Peninsula. Education Meets Science. Bringing Polar Research into Classrooms. Universidade de Coimbra.
- Vieira G. Permafrost and active layer monitoring in Western Antarctic Peninsula region: an overview of methodology, problems, results and perspectives. IV Iberian Conference of the International Permafrost Association, Nuria, Spain. 28 June 2013.
- Vieira G. 2014. Western Antarctic Peninsula Permafrost. Field observations and remote sensing. Invited key-note lecture at the 4th ESA-DUE Permafrost Workshop, Frascati – Italy, 11 February 2014, European Space Agency and CLIC.
- Vieira G. 2014. High resolution mapping of ice-free environments: examples from the West Antarctic Peninsula region. Invited lecture at SCAR OSC mini-syposium on Innovation in Antarctic Science, Auckland, 28 August 2014.
Keynote lectures in national conferences and events
- Nieuwendam, A. 2015. A importância das alterações climáticas e do permafrost na Antárctida. Conferência Bridges “Being the New Change”. Culturgest, Fundação Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Lisbon, Portugal.
- Nieuwendam, A. 2015. A Investigação Portuguesa sobre as Alterações Climáticas e o Permafrost nas Regiões Polares e de Montanha. Workshop sobre Educação e Ciência “From polar research to the class room”. Instituto de Educação e Cidadania, Mamarrosa.
- Vieira G. 2014. The Antarctic Peninsula Permafrost environment under a changing climate. University of Sofia, May.
- Vieira, G. 2014. Deteção remota de alta resolução para o estudo da dinâmica das regiões frias e de montanha. Congresso Lusofono de Tecnologias de Informação geográfica. Coimbra. Setembro.
- Vieira G. 2014. Conferência de Natal Ciência Viva, Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, 11 de Dezembro de 2014.
- Vieira G. 2015. El Permafrost en a region occidental de la Península Antártida. Factores condicionantes, estado térmico y nuevas tendencias en cartografia de detalle con UAV. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 15 March 2015.
Organization of courses
- A. Nieuwendam - PYRN intensive course on “Methods and techniques to study permafrost in a climate change scenario” European Geosciences Union Assembly, Vienna, April 2014.
- A. Nieuwendam - PYRN Workshop on permafrost drilling – EUCOP4, University of Évora, June 2014.
- A. Nieuwendam - PYRN intensive course on “The future of permafrost in a climate-changing world”, European Geosciences Union Assembly, Vienna, April 2015.
Outreach activities in schools
PERMANTAR-3 has been involved in the bi-annual event Polar Weeks organized by the Association of Early Career Polar Scientists (APECS). Lectures have been provided in high schools (or target at high school students):
- Cientistas de Lisboa na Antárctida. O que fazemos e como vivemos. Programa OS PÓLOS AQUI, A Antárctida e o Ártico no Coração de Lisboa. Casa Independente. Março de 2013.
- Escola da Quinta do Marquês 2014 e 2015
- Escola Secundária do Lumiar 2014
- Verão na ULisboa 2014 e 2015
- Dia Aberto da Geografia 2014 e 2015
- Externato Penafirme 2015
- Jardim Infantil Pestalozzi 2015