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Permafrost Pathways
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Connecting science, people and policy for Arctic justice and global climate. A project led by Woodwell Climate Research Center.

https://permafrost.woodwellclimate.org/
💡 The study reveals how federal and state systems often fail to recognize the urgency of gradual, compounding environmental threats, and how this failure leaves Tribal communities to bear the disproportionate impacts from climate change.
August 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
➡ Learn more about our partnership with Sámi reindeer herders and ICR at the link in our bio.

🗳️If you’re at the Esri UC right now, you can help us raise awareness by voting for “Navigating the new Arctic” here: mapgallery.esri.com/submission-d...
July 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
🦌 For many Indigenous reindeer herding communities, the loss and fragmentation of pastures not only threaten their economic livelihoods but also their cultural heritage and traditional knowledge passed down through generations.
July 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
❄️ Across the Arctic, nomadic reindeer herders find themselves on the frontlines of a rapidly changing world. Their traditional way of life, deeply intertwined with the seasonal migrations of their reindeer herds, faces significant threats from changing land use and the impacts of climate change.
July 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
🗺 This week, our team is raising awareness about Arctic change at #EsriUC2025 in San Diego. Today, @cmshintani.bsky.social's “Navigating the new Arctic"—co-produced with Sámi partners at the International Centre for Reindeer Husbandry —is featured in the Map Gallery.
July 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
🎥 Stay tuned for recorded sessions and learn more about the panel and #MR2025 at:
adaptation.climate.columbia.edu
June 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
💬 Thank you to everyone who attended our session and asked such thoughtful questions! We’re so grateful to be in community with so many passionate and creative people working on climate adaptation, and we were thrilled to bump into other Arctic friends from Tuktoyaktuk!
June 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
🎤 Moderated by Dr. Sue Natali, our panel session convened Morris Alexie and Melissa Shapiro from @woodwellclimate.bsky.social, Karen Pletnikoff (Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association), and Max Neale (ANTHC) to discuss challenges, innovations, and policy recs for climate adaptation in Alaska.
June 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
🏙️ This week, our team brought lessons in climate adaptation from Alaska to New York City during the Climate Mobility and Resilience Conference #MR2025 at @climate.columbia.edu, the ancestral and traditional homeland of the Lenni-Lenape and Wappinger people.
June 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Our boreal fire team @woodwellclimate.bsky.social is in D.C. this week to discuss responses+solutions to address the severe northern #wildfires impacting people, animals, and ecosystems.

We'll be adding to this resource 🧵, so please let us know what you'd like to see.
(🗺️ by @cmshintani.bsky.social)
June 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
🎬The festival will also be screening “This is a Story About Salmon,” a powerful short documentary film by @princessdaazhraii.bsky.social (Neets’aii Gwich’in), featuring Woods and other Alaska Native women advocating to save salmon and the future of their communities.
May 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
🎤 Brooke Woods has taken the stage at #Mountainfilm with other Indigenous leaders—including former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and climate policy expert @jadebegay.bsky.social—to discuss how Indigenous Knowledge, voices, and expertise are crucial in land and water management.
May 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
📸: the first article in the new issue of #Wildfire magazine on cultural burning, written by Edward Alexander.

Morten Høglund, Chair of the Senior Arctic Officials during Norway’s chairship of the #ArcticCouncil, and Solveig Rossebø, Senior Arctic Official for #Norway, hold copies of the new issue.
May 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
❄️ Together with our partners and collaborators, we continue to publish advances in permafrost science, influence critical Arctic policy, and support climate justice and adaptation efforts in Alaska and across the Arctic.
April 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Postdoctoral researcher Kelcy Kent shared flux data that show need for year-round monitoring, and co-lead Brendan Rogers shared a poster on Permafrost Pathways and reported out as part of the ICARP IV Research Priority Team 2 on Arctic observing and modeling needs. bsky.app/profile/perm... #ASSW2025
March 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Christina Schädel @schaedelc.bsky.social shared work on updating models to include permafrost emissions. Preliminary results show just how important getting permafrost into the picture is for global carbon budgets. This budget 'blindspot' will grow the longer it takes us to bend the emissions curve.
March 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
We co-hosted a workshop with the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme to identify opportunities and steps toward a pan-Arctic coupled monitoring hub. Such a unified 'network of networks' would help to generate current, policy-relevant insights into fluxes and ecosystem change across the Arctic
March 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
🧵 Our team had a great Arctic Science Summit Week in Boulder, which is located on the traditional territories and ancestral homelands of the Cheyenne, Arapahoe, and Ute, and other Native American nations. Thank you to everyone who joined the conversations about improving Arctic research! #ASSW2025
March 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
📈Winter carbon emissions from a carbon monitoring tower near Council, Alaska offset the C sink in growing season, and even exceeded summer uptake in some recent years.

Analysis and poster led by Kelcy Kent of our carbon monitoring team! #ASSW2025
March 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
If you're at Arctic Science Summit Week today, please join @woodwellclimate.bsky.social's Christina Schädel @schaedelc.bsky.social at 1:30 PM for an update on how her team is refining emissions projections and addressing limitations in #permafrost carbon modeling. #ASSW2025
March 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
‘Climate change is happening so rapidly in the Arctic it’s now outpacing our reports,’ says Rolf Rødven, executive secretary of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, highlighting the need for more frequent policy-relevant updates. #ASSW2025
March 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
We’re at the Alaska Forum on the Environment this week on Dena’ina lands in Anchorage — come find us at booth #20 on the third floor of the convention center and enter our raffle! #AlaskaForum2025
February 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Collaborative synthesis #science like this is crucial to understanding climate trends and advancing pan-Arctic monitoring efforts.
Congratulations @annvirkk.bsky.social @woodwellclimate.bsky.social & all co-authors, incl. @roseatmos.bsky.social @thissideofthearctic.org!
🗺️ by @gfiske.bsky.social
January 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
🧊🔥 New paper @natclimchange.bsky.social: After millennia as a carbon deep-freezer for the planet, a third of the Arctic-boreal zone is now a CO2 source to the atmosphere. The int’l research team was led by @annvirkk.bsky.social
⬇️ Learn more:
permafrost.woodwellclimate.org/after-millen...
January 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
New paper in @agu.org Geophysical Research Letters: Detecting #Arctic hotspots using satellite and temp records shows extreme warming, drying and browning in Siberian forests and other areas of high ecosystem #climate stress in northern #Alaska & Northwest Territories of #Canada. #AGUPubs #GIS
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January 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM