5th European Conference on Permafrost

The role of permafrost in the 2017 Pizzo Cengalo rock slope failure

Salle Michel Payot

Marcia Phillips

8 - Coupled heat transfer and fluid flow processes in permafrost regions (including IPA Action Group InterFrost results)

Salle Edgard Bouillette

Christophe Grenier, Elena Kuzentsova, Victor Bense

› Heat transfer mechanisms of crushed rock materials - Karlis Rieksts, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology 09:15-09:30 (15min)

› Experimental and numerical analyses of the frost heaving mechanism and prevention technology of high-speed subgrade in seasonally frozen regions - YUANMING LAI, State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences 09:30-09:45 (15min)

› Variations of the thermal conductivity of a silty clay during a freezing-thawing process - Jianguo Lu, State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences;University of Chinese Academy of Sciences 09:45-10:00 (15min)

› A Method for Calculating Heat Transfer in Water-Saturated Soils Using Temperature Measurements in Boreholes - Mikhail Semin, Mining Institute of the Ural Branch Russian Academy of Sciences 10:00-10:15 (15min)

› Upscaling surface energy fluxes over the North Slope of Alaska using airborne eddy- covariance measurements and environmental response functions - Andrei Serafimovich, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences 10:15-10:30 (15min)

2 - Palaeo-permafrost reconstruction, from field to simulation

Salle Théodore Bourrit

Pascal Bertran, Pierre Antoine, Didier Roche, Charlotte Prud’Homme

› Cryogenic hypothesis of the origin of the Yamal crater - results of detailed studies and modeling - Vanda Khilimonyuk, Lomonosov Moscow State University 09:15-09:30 (15min)

› Past thermal-contraction-crack polygons in central western Poland: distribution, classification and relationship with ice-sheet recession - Marek Ewertowski, Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland 09:30-09:45 (15min)

› Thaw slurry lake deposits: paleoenvironmental indicators of long term permafrost dynamics - Scott Lamoureux, Queen's University 09:45-10:00 (15min)

› Paleoclimate variations and impact on groundwater recharge in multi-layer aquifer systems using a multi-tracer approach (northern Aquitaine basin, France) - Marc Saltel, Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, Pessac 10:00-10:15 (15min)

› Pollen, trace elements and stable isotope plots of Late Pleistocene ice wedges of Seyaha yedoma, Eastern Yamal Peninsula - Alla Vasil'chuk, Department of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University 10:15-10:30 (15min)

7 - Understanding rockglacier dynamics

Salle Paul Payot

Isabelle Gärtner-Roer, Andreas Kellerer-Pirklbauer, Lea Hartl

› Investigating a destabilized permafrost landform, Ádjet rock glacier, Norway: a multi-disciplinary remote sensing approach - Line Rouyet, Northern Research Institute 09:15-09:30 (15min)

› Regional evaluation of rock glacier activity in the semi-arid Andes using optical and radar satellite imagery - Xavier Bodin, Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de la Montagne 09:30-09:45 (15min)

› Benefits of UAVs and structure from motion in the study of rock glacier kinematics: Examples from the Western Swiss Alps - Sebastian Vivero, University of Lausanne 09:45-10:00 (15min)

› Seismologic monitoring of rock glaciers: first results on Gugla-Breithorn site - Antoine Guillemot, ISTerre 10:00-10:15 (15min)

› Interannual and subseasonal rock glacier displacement by exploiting different SAR techniques - Aldo Bertone, EURAC Research – Institute for Earth Observation, University of Pavia - Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences 10:15-10:30 (15min)

23 - New developments and applications of geophysical techniques in permafrost terrain

Salle Isabella Straton

Hauck Christian, Halla Christian, Thomas Ingeman-Nielsen

› Multi-scale geophysical mapping of deep permafrost change after disturbance in interior Alaska, USA - Burke Minsley, U.S. Geological Survey 09:15-09:30 (15min)

› Spectral Induced Polarization Surveys to Infer Ground Ice in a Peatland and a Lithalsa in Warm Permafrost Near Yellowknife, Canada - Stephan Gruber, Carleton University 09:30-09:45 (15min)

› Measurements of the Induced Polarization effect in alpine permafrost using Transient Electromagnetic and Complex Resistivity methods - Adrian Flores-Orozco, Geophysics Research Division, Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU-Wien 09:45-10:00 (15min)

› Magnetic prospecting of ice wedge polygons: the case of Kurungnakh ice complex in Lena delta - Leonid Tsibizov, Novosibirsk state university, Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences 10:00-10:15 (15min)

› Application of 3D interpretation technologies to solving foundation monitoring problems at hydroprojects in permafrost regions - Sergei Velikin, Vilyui Permafrost Research Station, Melnikov Permafrost Institute SB RAS 10:15-10:30 (15min)

3 - Permafrost engineering and the related risks

Salle Michel Payot

Kevin Bjella, Guy Dore, Elizaveta Makarychev

› Geophysical methods of monitoring of permafrost on the objects of economic activity - Svet Milanovskiy, Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth [Moscow] - Artem Cherepanov, Russian State Geological Prospecting University 09:15-09:30 (15min)

› Influence of urbanization on engineering properties of soils in the geocryological environment under climate change and technical loading - Dmitrii Shesternev, Melnikov Permafrost Institute SB RAS 09:30-09:45 (15min)

› Multidisciplinary site investigations for improved infrastructure design in Qaanaaq, North Greenland - Thomas Ingeman-Nielsen, DTU Civil Engineering 09:45-10:00 (15min)

› Newtok Village Relocation Project – A Geotechnical and Permafrost Engineering Perspective of the New Village Site at Mertarvik - John Thornley, Golder Associates Inc. 10:00-10:15 (15min)

8 - Coupled heat transfer and fluid flow processes in permafrost regions (including IPA Action Group InterFrost results)

Salle Edgard Bouillette

Christophe Grenier, Elena Kuzentsova, Victor Bense

› Validation of Cryohydrogeological codes: the InterFrost project - Christophe Grenier, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de lÉnvironnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] 11:00-11:15 (15min)

› Permafrost conditions and groundwater flow in boreal headwater catchments, interior Alaska (USA) - Michelle Walvoord, United States Geological Survey 11:15-11:30 (15min)

› Numerical Simulations of Groundwater Flow and Permafrost Thaw in a Discontinuous Permafrost Zone, Umiujaq, Québec, Canada - John Molson, Département de géologie et de génie géologique et Centre d'études nordiques, Université Laval, Québec, QC 11:30-11:45 (15min)

› Numerical investigation of evapotranspiration processes in a forested watershed of Central Siberia - Laurent Orgogozo, Géosciences Environnement Toulouse 11:45-12:00 (15min)

› The role of increasing precipitation on permafrost on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau - zhi wen, zhi wen 12:00-12:15 (15min)

13 - Past environments in permafrost regions

Salle Théodore Bourrit

Marc Oliva, Michael Fritz, Stefanie Cable

› Ice-Wedge Thermokarst: Past, Present, and Future - Mikhail Kanevskiy, Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks 11:00-11:30 (30min)

› Timing and drivers of mid- to late Holocene ice-wedge polygon development in the Western Canadian Arctic - Juliane Wolter, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research 11:30-11:45 (15min)

› Potential and challenges to use the stable isotope composition of ice wedges as winter climate archives - Hanno Meyer, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam 11:45-12:00 (15min)

› MAY THE FROST BE WITH YOU: AN ICE-WEDGE POLYGONS STORY. - Alexandre Chiasson, Centre d'études nordiques, Université Laval 12:00-12:15 (15min)

7 - Understanding rockglacier dynamics

Salle Paul Payot

Isabelle Gärtner-Roer, Andreas Kellerer-Pirklbauer, Lea Hartl

› Active rock glacier at sea level in Finnmark, Northern Norway? - Bernd Etzelmüller, Univeristy of Oslo 11:00-11:15 (15min)

› Twenty years of rock glaciers and periglacial slope movements analysis in the Bas-Valais (Swiss Alps) - Chloé Barboux, Department of Geosciences - Geography, University of Fribourg 11:15-11:30 (15min)

› Interannual variability of rock glacier flow velocities in the European Alps - Andreas Kellerer-Pirklbauer, University of Graz 11:30-11:45 (15min)

› Analysis of climate change on rock glaciers of semi-arid Andes and its possible hydrological consequences - Catalina Pino, Universidad de Chile 11:45-12:00 (15min)

› Assessing rock glacier horizontal movement in the Cordón del Plata range, Central Andes of Argentina - Jan Blöthe, Department of Geography - University of Bonn 12:00-12:15 (15min)

23 - New developments and applications of geophysical techniques in permafrost terrain

Salle Isabella Straton

Hauck Christian, Halla Christian, Thomas Ingeman-Nielsen

› GPR measurement of active layer thickness on CALM-S site, James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula - Hrbacek Filip, Department of Geography, Masaryk University 11:00-11:15 (15min)

› Permafrost mapping within Pechora-river delta (European North) with seismic and ground penetrating radar - Marat Sadurtdinov, Earth Cryosphere Institute 11:15-11:30 (15min)

› Overcoming data scarcity of active layer thicknesses using geophysics - Albane SAINTENOY, Géosciences Paris Sud 11:30-11:45 (15min)

› Using GPR spectral signal analysis to search for taliks in the Shestakovka River basin in the continuous permafrost zone - Ivan Khristoforov, Melnikov Permafrost Institute SB RAS 11:45-12:00 (15min)

› Geophysical investigations of permafrost ground as a basis for hazard mitigation planning in Longyearbyen, Svalbard - Kjersti Gleditsch Gisnås, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute 12:00-12:15 (15min)

3 - Permafrost engineering and the related risks

Salle Michel Payot

Kevin Bjella, Guy Dore, Elizaveta Makarychev

› Flexible and ductile pipeline: Innovative structure in permafrost regions under the climate change - Shunji Kanie, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University 11:00-11:15 (15min)

› Comprehensive study of the geocryological conditions and geological structure of the dam for the design of engineering protection measures - Erika Grechishcheva, JSC Fundamentproject 11:15-11:30 (15min)

› Methods of Main Oil Pipeline Geotechnical Monitoring in Permafrost Zone - Elizaveta Makarycheva, Limited Liability Company The Pipeline Transport Institute 11:30-11:45 (15min)

› Critical shear stress of frozen and thawing soils - Julie Malenfant-Lepage, Université Laval, Center for Northern Studies 11:45-12:00 (15min)

› Eliminating the Frost Uplift of Foundation by Cone-shaped Pile - Zurun Yue, Shijiazhuang Tiedao University 12:00-12:15 (15min)

14 - Permafrost peatlands in a changing climate – past, present and uncertain future

Salle Edgard Bouillette

Britta Sannel, Ylva Sjöberg, Sebastian Westermann

› Carbon accumulation in Arctic permafrost peatlands: a special focus on the response to global warming - Hui Zhang, University of Helsinki [Helsinki] 14:00-14:15 (15min)

› Timeline of permafrost peatland formation in subarctic Quebec (Canada) - Najat Bhiry, Centre d'études nordiques, Université Laval 14:15-14:30 (15min)

› Microbial greenhouse gas production in permafrost peatlands of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, Canada - Adam Kirkwood, Laurentian University, Vale Living with Lakes, Co-operative Freshwater Ecology Unit 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› Methane emissions from high latitude peatlands: Constraining models with observations. - Sarah Chadburn, University of Leeds 14:45-15:00 (15min)

› Peatland and permafrost in Mongolia: management options for climate change mitigation and adaptation - Tatiana Minayeva, Institute of Forest Science Russian Academy of Sciences, Care of Ecosystems 15:00-15:15 (15min)

13 - Past environments in permafrost regions

Salle Théodore Bourrit

Marc Oliva, Michael Fritz, Stefanie Cable

› Late Pleistocene yedoma in south-western Yukon (Canada): a remnant of Eastern Beringia ? - Daniel Fortier, Université de Montréal 14:00-14:15 (15min)

› Reconstructing cold climate paleoenvironments from micromorphological analysis of slope deposits (Serra da Estrela, Central Portugal) - Alexandre Nieuwendam, Centre of Geographical Studies – IGOT, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal 14:15-14:30 (15min)

› Frozen but non-glaciated area as a characteristic feature of the Pleistocene development of Northwestern Siberia - Vladimir Sheinkman, Tyumen Industrial University, Tyumen State University, Earth Cryosphere Institute of the Tyumen Scientific Center of the SB RAS, Tyumen, Russia, 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› Retrogressive thaw slumps: Indicators of Holocene climate changes - Roxanne Frappier, University of Ottawa [Ottawa] 14:45-15:00 (15min)

› East Siberian Shelf slope sediments suggest permafrost carbon mobilization during the last glacial termination - Jannik Martens, Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry [Stockholm], Bolin Centre for Climate Research 15:00-15:15 (15min)

7 - Understanding rockglacier dynamics

Salle Paul Payot

Isabelle Gärtner-Roer, Andreas Kellerer-Pirklbauer, Lea Hartl

› Investigating ages and kinematics of two rock glaciers in the Southern Alps of New Zealand - Christophe Lambiel, University of Lausanne 14:00-14:15 (15min)

› Investigating the influence of temperature and liquid water on variations in rockglacier flow - Alessandro Cicoira, University of Zurich 14:15-14:30 (15min)

› Near-surface ventilation as a key for modelling the thermal regime of coarse blocky rock glaciers - Luisa Pruessner, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Laboratory of Hydraulics, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW), ETH Zürich 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› The Col du Lou event (French Alps) – an active layer detachment at the front of a destabilized rock glacier - Charles Ribeyre, SAGE/ADRGT, Institut d'Urbanisme et de Géographie Alpine, PACTE 14:45-15:00 (15min)

› Rock glacier inventories and kinematics: a new IPA Action Group - Reynald Delaloye, University of Fribourg - Department of Geosciences 15:00-15:15 (15min)

23 - New developments and applications of geophysical techniques in permafrost terrain

Salle Isabella Straton

Hauck Christian, Halla Christian, Thomas Ingeman-Nielsen

› Petrophysical approach of ERI data interpretation for various salinity deposits in permafrost areas - Dina Kvon, Research Center Geoscan LLC 14:00-14:15 (15min)

› ERI surveys of embankment dam with petrophysical aspects of data interpretation - Evgeny Zerkal, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Geological Faculty, Department of Geophysics - Dina Kvon, Research Center Geoscan LLC, Moscow 14:15-14:30 (15min)

› 3D numerical modeling of two thermokarst lakes and their probably connecting taliks as seen on ERT data - Alexey Faguet, Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk State University 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› Coupled thermo-geophysical inversion for permafrost monitoring - Sonia Tomaskovicova, Technical University of Denmark [Lyngby] 14:45-15:00 (15min)

› Monitoring the active layer using Electrical Resistivity Tomography: daily, weekly and monthly variability at Crater Lake, Deception Island, Antarctica - Mohammad Farzamian, Instituto Dom Luiz - Gonçalo Vieira, Centro de Estudos Geográficos. 15:00-15:15 (15min)

3 - Permafrost engineering and the related risks

Salle Michel Payot

Kevin Bjella, Guy Dore, Elizaveta Makarychev

› Zero curtain effect of ponded water on thermal regime of railway embankment in continuous permafrost area, the Qinghai - Tibet Plateau - Mu Yanhu, State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences 14:00-14:15 (15min)

› Thermal resistance of engineering constructions soil foundation - Ilya Komarov, Lomonosov Moscow State University 14:15-14:30 (15min)

› Permafrost temperature simulation using sequentially coupled explicit-implicit finite-difference method - Vladimir Gordiychuk, Simmakers Ltd. 14:30-14:45 (15min)

› The Modelling of Solifluction Behaviour of Freezing-Thawing Soils - adil binal, Adil Binal 14:45-15:00 (15min)

› The comparison of numerical and analytical solution of the Stefan problem - Gleb Gribovskii, Belarusian State University, Simmakers Ltd. 15:00-15:15 (15min)

14 - Permafrost peatlands in a changing climate – past, present and uncertain future

Salle Edgard Bouillette

Britta Sannel, Ylva Sjöberg, Sebastian Westermann

› Persistence of permafrost after 55 years of climatic warming and fire disturbance in the sporadic discontinuous zone - Jean Holloway, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Ottawa 15:45-16:00 (15min)

› Dissolved organic carbon export and its contribution to the carbon budget in a boreal peat landscape undergoing rapid permafrost thaw - Fouché Julien, Department Biosystem Engineering (BIOSE), Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liège (ULg) 16:00-16:15 (15min)

› Evolution of dissolved organic matter origin and methanogenesis processes in degrading palsa of North Siberia - Laure Gandois, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement, ECOLAB, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, INPT, UPS, Toulouse 16:15-16:30 (15min)

› Modelling the thermal stability of peat plateaus and palsas in Northern Norway - Léo Martin, Department of Geosciences [Oslo] 16:30-16:45 (15min)

› Simulating Permafrost Peatlands under Climate Change with Laterally Coupled Tiles in a Land Surface Model - Kjetil Aas, Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo 16:45-17:00 (15min)

13 - Past environments in permafrost regions

Salle Théodore Bourrit

Marc Oliva, Michael Fritz, Stefanie Cable

› Holocene permafrost evolution in marine sediments along the Eureka Sound Lowlands, NU, Canada - Cameron Roy, Department of Geography, McGill University 15:45-16:00 (15min)

› Characteristics of wave-built sedimentary archives in Buor Khaya Bay (71°N/130°E), Siberian Arctic, Russia. - Lasse Sander, Alfred-Wegener-Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Wadden Sea Research Station 16:00-16:15 (15min)

› Hard work of ground squirrels pays off 26 ka later: the last cold stage vegetation of the Yana Highlands - Kseniia Ashastina, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Institute for Systematic Botany, Jena, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Research Station of Quaternary Palaeontology, Weimar 16:15-16:30 (15min)

› Seasonality matters: Past winter climate from the Canadian High Arctic - Benjamin Amann, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Pau (France) 16:30-16:45 (15min)

› Permafrost conditions in the Mediterranean region since the Last Glaciation - Marc Oliva, Department of Geography, University of Barcelona, Spain 16:45-17:00 (15min)

22 - Frost at the margins of permafrost / Frost related phenomena in non permafrost areas

Salle Paul Payot

Reynald Delaloye, Vincent Jomelli, Cécile Pellet

› Seasonal frost in the French Alps - Philippe Schoeneich, Institut d'Urbanisme et de Géographie Alpine, PACTE 15:45-16:00 (15min)

› Spatiotemporal mapping of the evolution of ground temperature on a cold scree slope at Pellafol, Devoluy, Isère, France - Joseph Drevon, Université Grenoble Alpes, Institut de Géographie Alpine, Grenoble France 16:00-16:15 (15min)

› Cold scree slopes environments: unusual ecological processes highlighted by humus forms - Simon Meynier, IRSTEA Grenoble 16:15-16:30 (15min)

› Plant species indicative of cold screes at low altitudes in the French Alps - Stéphanie Huc, Conservatoire Botanique National Alpin 16:30-16:45 (15min)

› Cryogenic earth hummocks developed in mineral substrates - Stuart Harris, Department of Geography, University of Calgary. 16:45-17:00 (15min)

23 - New developments and applications of geophysical techniques in permafrost terrain

Salle Isabella Straton

Hauck Christian, Halla Christian, Thomas Ingeman-Nielsen

› Volumetric ice content in active rock glaciers derived from geophysical modeling (Central Andes of Argentina) - Christian Halla, Department of Geography - University of Bonn 15:45-16:00 (15min)

› Ice and liquid water saturations jointly inverted from electrical and refraction seismic datasets in mountain permafrost - Coline Mollaret, University of Fribourg - Department of Geosciences 16:00-16:15 (15min)

› 3D refraction seismic tomography investigations in alpine permafrost at Hoher Sonnblick (Austria) - Matthias Steiner, Technische Universität Wien 16:15-16:30 (15min)

› 3D inversion of resistivity and induced polarization on an alpine rock glacier supporting unstable cable-car - Pierre-Allain Duvillard, EDYTEM lab., IMSRN 16:30-16:45 (15min)

› Contribution of electrical resistivity tomography measurements in the Study permafrost: Examples from the Altai Mountains - Anastasya Goreyavcheva, Novosibirsk State University 16:45-17:00 (15min)

3 - Permafrost engineering and the related risks

Salle Michel Payot

Kevin Bjella, Guy Dore, Elizaveta Makarychev

› Fractal characteristics of microstructural changes before and after warm frozen soil stabilizing - sun gaochen, gaochen sun 15:45-16:00 (15min)

› Selection of equations for long-term strength calculation of frozen saline soils - Pavel Kotov, Lomonosov Moscow State University 16:00-16:15 (15min)

› An experimental study of unfrozen water content in fine grained permafrost soils - Marte Nybo, Norconsult AS 16:15-16:30 (15min)

› Experimental study on the damage deterioration of cracks of coal samples subjected to freeze-thaw cycles - ZHEMIN YOU, State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences 16:30-16:45 (15min)

IPA Action Group - Towards a Permafrost Thaw Subsidence Product within GTN-P

Salle Samivel

Frank Guenther

Journal's editors meeting

Salle Edgard Bouillette

Workshop "GlobPermafrost"

Salle Théodore Bourrit

Annett Barsch