European Conference on Permafrost (EUCOP 2023)

Following the International and Regional conferences convened by the International Permafrost Association, the 6^th European Conference on Permafrost (EUCOP 2023) will be held in Puigcerdà (Catalonia, Spain), 18-22 June 2023.

The conference will encompass all relevant aspects of permafrost research, engineering and outreach on a global and regional level during three exciting days of plenary lectures, oral presentations and posters, combined with several local field trips across the eastern Pyrenees (Cerdanya, Núria, Andorra, etc).

Sessions and abstract submission

Attendees are kindly encouraged to contribute to the 6^th European Conference on Permafrost through short abstracts (max. 300 words) by January 15^th, 2023. We encourage high-quality contributions, describing original and unpublished results in different topics of permafrost and periglacial geomorphology included in the following conference sessions: 

• Session 1: Modeling of permafrost-climate feedbacks in future scenarios
  Conveners: Norman Steinert, Sarah Chadburn, Philipp de Vrese, David Wårlind
• Session 2: Education & Outreach:  Cartoons, Communities, and Cooperation
  Conveners: Anna E. Klene, Xiangbing Kong, Ylva Sjöberg
• Session 3: Permafrost land-ocean interactions: fluxes, transport processes and degradation pathways
  Conveners: Michael Fritz, Lisa Bröder, Jorien Vonk
• Session 4: Structure and function of freshwater ecosystems on lowland permafrost landscapes
  Conveners: Ada Pastor, Cecilie M. Holmboe, Tenna Riis
• Session 5: Water in Mountain Permafrost Environments
  Conveners: Stefano Brighenti, Cassandra Koenig, Masaki Hayashi, Nicola Colombo, Monica Tolotti
• Session 6: Advances in the observation and simulation of the snowpack: Implications and applications for permafrost monitoring
  Conveners: Jesús Revuelto, Esteban Alonso González, Ixeia Vidaller, Franziska Koch
• Session 7: Recent advances in modelling permafrost dynamics, interactions, and feedbacks across scales
  Conveners: Jan Nitzbon, Simone Stünzi, Léo C. P. Martin, Sarah Chadburn
• Session 8: Monitoring of electrical and electromagnetic properties in frozen ground (including the IPA Action Group IDGSP)
  Conveners: Mohammad Farzamian, Christin Hilbich, Theresa Maierhofer, Riccardo Scandroglio, Sebastian Uhlemann
• Session 9: Remote sensing of Disturbances in Permafrost Regions
  Conveners: Alexandra Runge, Mark J. Lara, Anna Liljedahl
• Session 10: Steep rock slope permafrost processes and hazards
  Conveners: Kaytan Kelkar, Florence Magnin, Bernd Etzelmuller
• Session 11: Emerging geophysical methods for permafrost investigations
  Conveners: Adrián Flores-Orozco, Coline Mollaret, Jonas Limbrock, Christian Hauck
• Session 12: Periglacial and paraglacial environments in Antarctica
  Conveners: Filip Hrbacek, Marc Oliva, Mauro Guglielmin, Christel Hansen
• Session 13: Permafrost and Society: how do changes in permafrost systems interact with social and cultural dynamics, economies, industries, and food systems
  Conveners: Melissa Ward Jones, Joachim Otto Habeck, Justine Ramage
• Session 14: Open session on rock glaciers
  Conveners: Cécile Pellet, Line Rouyet, Yan Hu
• Session 15: Drained Lake Basins in lowland permafrost regions
  Conveners: Helena Bergstedt, Louise Farquharson, Guido Grosse
• Session 16: Processes in cold rocky landforms
  Conveners: Dominik Amschwand, Tamara Mathys, Julie Wee, Răzvan Popescu
• Session 17: Biodiversity and biogeochemistry of permafrost ecosystems and global change
  Conveners: Oriol Grau, Olga Margalef, Sergi Pla-Rabés, Nicolás Valiente
• Session 18: Studying past environments to understand current permafrost dynamics
  Conveners: Sergi Pla-Rabés, Santiago Giralt, Dermot Antoniades, Julia Gracia-Oteyza, Olga Margalef
• Session 19: Carbon stocks, soil properties, greenhouse gas fluxes and atmospheric feedbacks of permafrost regions
  Conveners: Matthias Siewert, Gustaf Hugelius, Claire Treat
• Session 20: Characteristic Upland Periglacial Landscapes: Reality or “Geomorphic Chimera”?
  Conveners: Kelsey E. Nyland, Raven J. Mitchell, Frederick E. Nelson
• Session 21: Periglacial geomorphology
  Conveners: Marc Oliva, Gonçalo Vieira, Isabelle Gärtner-Roer, Line Rouyet
• Session 22: Polar Coastal and subsea environments in Transition: Arctic – Antarctic perspectives
  Conveners: Matt C. Strzelecki, Frederieke Miesner, Mette Bendixen, Michael Angelopoulos
• Session 23: Permafrost Engineering: risk assessment and adaptation challenges
  Conveners: Guy Dore, Kevin Bjella
• Session 24: Permafrost temperature changes and active layer dynamics: from local observations to global assessments of the permafrost system
  Conveners: Dimitry Streletskiy, Jeannette Noetzli, Philippe Schoeneich, Anna Irrgang

Abstracts should be electronically submitted through the submission form hosted in the Easy Chair conference platform. 

Travel grants are available for young researchers! 

Important dates

Deadline for abstract submissions: 15th January 2023
Decision on abstracts (orals/posters): February 2023
Early bird registration: until 15th March 2023

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Cover image by Alp Ancel.