The Permafrost Coastal Systems Network (PerCS-Net) addresses fundamental knowledge gaps associated with transforming permafrost coasts in the Arctic by linking over ten existing national and international networks. This international network of networks is developing protocols for quantifying and synthesizing information on the impacts occurring in coastal permafrost systems and promoting synergy across networks to foster the next generation of researchers charged with identifying potential solutions to a rapidly changing Arctic System.

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Roger Creel, PerCS-Net Member Spotlight

Member Spotlight: Roger Creel

Roger Creel is a postdoctoral scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution whose research seeks to understand Sea-level change and impacts on coastal permafrost.  To learn more about his work, watch his

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Sasha Petersonk, UTEP

Member Spotlight: Sasha Peterson

Sasha Peterson is a PhD candidate at University of Texas at El Paso whose research seeks to understand the patterns and drivers of erosion in Beaufort Lagoons and across the North Slope of Alaska.  Read more about her work and interests.

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Map of Arctic coastal type, permafrost distribution and sea-ice extent.

New Pan-Arctic Synthesis Paper Published in Nature Reviews

More than 10 PerCS-Net members collaborated on a recent review paper that was published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment in January 2022 highlighting the drivers, dynamics and impacts of changing Arctic coasts. The article is one of a collection of papers on Permafrost in a warming world published in January that examine the physical, biogeochemical, and ecosystem changes related to permafrost thaw and the associated impacts.

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Recent Member Publications

Casas-Prat, M., Hemer, M.A., Dodet, G., Morim, J., Wang, X.L., Mori, N., Young, I., Erikson, L., Kamranzad, B., Kumar, P. and

Menéndez, M., 2024. Wind-wave climate changes and their impacts. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, pp.1-20.

Cooley, S.W. and Ryan, J.C., 2024. Community-scale changes to landfast ice along the coast of Alaska over 2000-2022.

Environmental Research Letters, 19 024013.

Jones, B.M., Kanevskiy, M.Z., Parsekian, A.D., Bergstedt, H., Ward Jones, M.K., Rangel, R.C., Hinkel, K.M. and Shur, Y., 2023. Rapid

saline permafrost thaw below a shallow thermokarst lake in Arctic Alaska. Geophysical Research Letters, 50(22), p.e2023GL105552.

Jong, D., Bröder, L., Tesi, T., Tanski, G., Oudenhuijsen, M., Fritz, M., Lantuit, H., Haghipour, N., Eglinton, T. and Vonk, J., 2024.

Selective sorting and degradation of permafrost organic matter in the nearshore zone of Herschel Island (Yukon, Canada). Journal of

Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 129(1), p.e2023JG007479.

Kazhukalo, G., Novikova, A., Shabanova, N., Drugov, M., Myslenkov, S., Shabanov, P., Belova, N. and Ogorodov, S., 2023. Coastal

Dynamics at Kharasavey Key Site, Kara Sea, Based on Remote Sensing Data. Remote Sensing, 15(17), p.4199.

Kuklina, V., Sizov, O., Fedorov, R. and Butakov, D., 2023. Dealing with sand in the Arctic city of Nadym. Ambio, pp.1-13.

Langer, M., Nitzbon, J., Groenke, B., Assmann, L.M., Schneider von Deimling, T., Stuenzi, S.M. and Westermann, S., 2024. The

evolution of Arctic permafrost over the last 3 centuries from ensemble simulations with the CryoGridLite permafrost model. The

Cryosphere, 18(1), pp.363-385.

Ray, N.E., Martens, J., Ajmar, M., Tesi, T., Yakushev, E., Gangnus, I., Strauss, J., Schirrmeister, L., Semiletov, I. and Wild, B., 2024.

The role of coastal Yedoma deposits and continental shelf sediments in the Arctic Ocean silicon cycle. Global Biogeochemical Cycles,

38(1), p.e2023GB007746.

Richardson, C.M., Davis, K.L., Ruiz-González, C., Guimond, J.A., Michael, H.A., Paldor, A., Moosdorf, N. and Paytan, A., 2024. The

impacts of climate change on coastal groundwater. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, pp.1-20.

Wang, Z., Xiao, M., Nicolsky, D., Romanovsky, V., McComb, C. and Farquharson, L., 2023. Arctic coastal hazard assessment

considering permafrost thaw subsidence, coastal erosion, and flooding. Environmental Research Letters, 18(10), p.104003.

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Upcoming Conference Sessions at OSM and ICOP! Two upcoming international conferences feature sessions on Arctic Coastal Dynamics and Processes.

  • The Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM)
    18-23 February 2024, New Orleans, LA 
    Session Title: HE001 – Arctic coastal dynamics.
    Conveners: Emily Eidam, Madison Smith, Julia Guimond, Roger Creel, and Benjamin Jones | Weblink
  • 12th International Conference on Permafrost,
    16-20 June 2024, Whitehorse, Yukon, CA 
    Session Title: 3F – Polar Coastlines in Transition: Arctic, Antarctic, Offshore and Shelf Perspectives
    Conveners: Matt Strzelecki, Louise Farquharson, and Zuzanna Swirad | Weblink