Rapid Permafrost Thaw Carbon Trajectories

Understanding how rapid Arctic permafrost thaw reshapes carbon emissions, climate feedbacks, and future climate trajectories.

Temperature Measuring Lance, Baldwin Peninsula, Alaska. Credits: Tillmann Lübker, AWI (2023).

Publications

Here you can find a list of publications related to the PeTCaT project, including peer-reviewed articles, conference papers, and other relevant publications. We will regularly update this page with new publications as they become available.

Publications and Pre-Prints

2026

  1. Fuchs M, Sachs T, Jongejans LL, Strauss J, Hugelius G, Frost GV, Jones BM, Kokelj SV, Kutzbach L, Nitze I, Overduin PP, Palmtag J, Ping C-L, Pokrovsky OS, Rivkina E, Runge A, Schirrmeister L, Schwamborn G, Siewert MB, Treat C, Veremeeva A, Zubrzycki S, Grosse G (2026, early access): Large stocks of permafrost soil organic carbon and nitrogen in Arctic river deltas. Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-73092-2. link
  2. Knoblauch Ch, Beer Ch, Voigt C (2026): Thawing Siberian permafrost stabilizes organic carbon from recent plant litter inputs. Biogeosciences, 23, 3615-3635. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-23-3615-2026. link
  3. Lübker T, Irrgang AM, Laboor S, Grosse G, Lantuit H & Streletskiy D (2026): The new GTN-P Data Platform: global long-term permafrost observations. Short Statement to the Arctic Observing Summit (AOS), Aarhus, Denmark, 30 Mar – 1 Apr 2026. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18749210. link

2025

  1. Stuenzi SM, Boike J, Westermann S, Langer M (2025): Boreal forest cover delays thermokarst onset in Central Siberia's Yedoma deposits. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 130, e2024JF007873. DOI: 10.1029/2024JF007873. link

Talks and Presentations

2026

  1. Grosse G, Nitze I, Hashemi J, Röseler F, Lübker T, Nesterova N, Inauen C, Küpper J, Hölzer T, Stadie C, Ohl S, Rettelbach T, Veremeeva A, Juhls B, McCall A, Laboor S, Morgenstern A (2026): Remote Sensing and Deep Learning for Mapping Rapid Permafrost Thaw and Carbon Dynamics. Invited Talk at MOMENT Project meeting, Potsdam, Germany, 18 Mar 2026.
  2. Grosse G, Nitze I, Stadie C, Rettelbach T, Helm V, Grünberg I, Boike J, Lantuit H (2026): Perma-X Airborne Observations for Permafrost and Coastal Studies. Poster at the Arctic Observing Summit (AOS), Aarhus, Denmark, 30 Mar – 1 Apr 2026.
  3. Grosse G, Walter Anthony K, Tank S, Beer C, Hugelius G, Langer M, Romanovsky V, Nicolsky D, Voigt C, Nitze I, Knoblauch C, Lübker T, Laboor S, Röseler F, Nitzbon J, Olefeldt D, Froese D, Kokelj S, Hille E, Lenz J, Strauss J (2026): Rapid Permafrost Thaw Carbon Trajectories (PeTCaT) – A new large international permafrost research endeavor. Talk at 16th DACH Permafrost Conference 2026, Seddin, Germany, 21–24 Jan 2026. link
  4. Irrgang AM, Grosse G, Laboor S, Lantuit H, Lübker T & Streletskiy D (2026): Tracking a Thawing World: The Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost New Data Platform is Now Online. Keynote talk held at 16th DACH Permafrost Conference, Seddin, Germany, 21–24 Jan 2026. link
  5. Lübker T, Laboor S, Irrgang AM, Lantuit H & Grosse G (2026): Globale Geodaten zum Monitoring von Permafrost – die neue GTN-P Data Platform. GeoSymposium, Neubrandenburg, Germany, 20-21 Apr 2026.
  6. Nitze I, Küpper J, Hölzer T, Heidler K, Nesterova N, Schütt E, Barth S, Lara MJ, Hardie K, Wang C, Nicholson T, Marini L, Jones BM, Ward Jones M, Jones MB, Li W, Liljedahl AK, Grosse G (2026): Rapid Detection of Panarctic Permafrost Region Disturbances with Remote Sensing and Deep Learning. Poster at the Arctic Observing Summit (AOS), Aarhus, Denmark, 30 Mar – 1 Apr 2026.
  7. Röseler F, Grosse G & Hugelius G (2026): Circum-Arctic Soil Permafrost Region database (CASPeR). Talk at 16th DACH Permafrost Conference 2026, Seddin, Germany, 21–24 Jan 2026. link
  8. Röseler F, Grosse G, Hugelius G (2026): The new Circum-Arctic Soil Permafrost Region database (CASPeR). Poster presentation at Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC) Conference 2026, Heidelberg, Germany, 28–30 April 2026.