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. Stuenzi SM, Grosse G, Miesner F, Westermann S, Langer M (2026): Canopy-mediated climate feedbacks in the boreal continuous permafrost zone. Nature Climate Change, 16, 971–979 (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41558-026-02692-z. link
  2. 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): Large stocks of permafrost soil organic carbon and nitrogen in Arctic river deltas. Nature Communications, 17, 7342 (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-73092-2. link
  3. Knoblauch Ch, Beer Ch, Voigt C (2026): Thawing Siberian permafrost stabilizes organic carbon from recent plant litter inputs. Biogeosciences, 23, 3615-3635. DOI: 10.5194/bg-23-3615-2026. link
  4. 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

Talks, Presentations, Workshops

2026

  1. Nitze I, Asher D, Jones M, Hardie K, Wang C, Nicholson T, Marini L, Regetz J, Liljedahl A, Grosse G, PDG Team (2026): Lost Lakes: A Near-Real-Time Monitoring System for Arctic Lake Drainage. Talk (online) at Permafrost Discovery Gateway (PDG) Webinar Series.
  2. Nitze I, Asher D, Jones M, Hardie K, Wang C, Nicholson T, Marini L, Regetz J, Liljedahl A, Grosse G, PDG Team (2026): Lost Lakes: A Near-Real-Time Monitoring System for Arctic Lake Drainage. Talk (online) at Local Environmental Observer (LEO) Network Webinar Series.
  3. Irrgang A, Lübker T (2026): The Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P): Opportunities for Cooperation in the HKH Region. Invited talk (online) at Regional Dialogue on Permafrost Research in the Hindu Kush Himalaya, ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal, 30–31 July 2026.
  4. Irrgang A, Lübker T (2026): Tracking a Thawing World: The new GTN-P Data Platform. Talk at 3rd Asian Conference on Permafrost (ACOP 2026), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 29 June – 2 July 2026. PDF
  5. Irrgang A, Lübker T, Strletskiy D (2026): The Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost: Tracking a Thawing World. Workshop organized at 3rd Asian Conference on Permafrost (ACOP 2026), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 28 June 2026.
  6. Röseler F, Grosse G, Hugelius G (2026): The new Circum-Arctic Soil Permafrost Region database (CASPeR). Poster at Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC) Conference 2026, Heidelberg, Germany, 28–30 April 2026.
  7. Lübker T, Laboor S, Irrgang AM, Lantuit H, Grosse G (2026): Globale Geodaten zum Monitoring von Permafrost – die neue GTN-P Data Platform. Talk at GeoSymposium, Neubrandenburg, Germany, 20-21 Apr 2026.
  8. 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 Arctic Observing Summit (AOS), Aarhus, Denmark, 30 Mar – 1 Apr 2026.
  9. 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 Arctic Observing Summit (AOS), Aarhus, Denmark, 30 Mar – 1 Apr 2026.
  10. 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.
  11. Nitzbon J, Langer M, Müller-Ißberner LA, Diezte E, Werner M (2026): How seasonality drives interglacial permafrost thaw: Insights from speleothems and climate modelling. Talk at 16th DACH Permafrost Conference 2026, Seddin, Germany, 21–24 Jan 2026. PDF
  12. 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
  13. 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 at 16th DACH Permafrost Conference, Seddin, Germany, 21–24 Jan 2026. link
  14. 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

2025

  1. Nitzbon J (2025): Modelling ice-rich permafrost landscape dynamics under past and future climates. Keynote lecture at Overcoming Uncertainties in Cold-Region-Hydrology, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany, 29 Sep – 1 Oct 2025. link