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International Workshop on Antarctic Permafrost and Soils November 14 to 18, Madison

German Activities on Antarctic Permafrost and Soils Hans-W. Hubberten Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam. International Workshop on Antarctic Permafrost and Soils November 14 to 18, Madison. German activities related to permafrost and soils in the past.

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International Workshop on Antarctic Permafrost and Soils November 14 to 18, Madison

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  1. German Activities on Antarctic Permafrost and Soils Hans-W. Hubberten Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam International Workshop on Antarctic Permafrost and Soils November 14 to 18, Madison

  2. German activities related to permafrost and soils in the past GDR activities (Krüger, Tschochner) E.M.Pfeiffer and AWI Blume, Bölter & Chen, Barsch, Stäblein, Mäusbacher, and others Blume & Bölter Foto: H.-P. Blume

  3. Present and Future German Activities in Antarctic Permafrost and Soils SCHIRMACHER OASIS KING GEORGEISLAND

  4. Permafrost and active layer studies in Victoria Land, King George Island and Schirmacher Oasis? Italian - German Cooperation Active Layer characteristics across a latitudinal gradient in Victoria Land (Continental Antarctica) as indicator of functional processes in permafrost environments and ecosystems. *Cannone N.1, Guglielmin M.2, Wagner D.3, Hubberten H.W.3 1 Dept. Environmental Sciences, University Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy 2 Science Faculty, University Insubria, Varese, Italy 3Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany

  5. Glacier forefield studies at Hurd Glacier, Livingston Island permafrost sampling surface sampling lake sediment sampling Transition Glacial - Periglacial • Target GPR sampling: lake sediments • Material terrestrial sediments FIELD WORK 0 50 m 0 • Techniques sampling GPR sediment layers LABORATORY WORK ice layer 5 m sedimen- tology minera- logy hydro- chemistry bio- indicators dating example: INTERPRETATION • Interpretation transport processes • Results paleoenvironment reconstruction 2. Permafrost, active layer and microbiological studies on Livingston Island in cooperation with Bulgarian Antarctic expedition 2005

  6. Full-cycle rRNA approach for Sequencing and Probing PCR Environmental sample 16S-rDNS cloning gene bank FISH probe sequencing design phylogeny 16S-rDNS sequences analyses

  7. 3. Permafrost and soil studies in Schirmacher Oasis, East Antarctica Hamburg University (Eva Pfeiffer) AWI Potsdam (D. Wagner, H.-W. Hubberten) Foto: G. Stoof (Molo)

  8. Carbon and Nitrogen studies in Antarctic soils • Nitrogen and Carbon pools • N and C dynamics

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