The 2023 NSERC PermafrostNet AGM was held in Victoria, BC between the 20th and 22nd of November.
The 2023 AGM was an in-person and virtual meeting focused on the needs of partners, the progress of the network projects and future activities.
Presentations
There were keynote presentations on individual research projects and updates on theme progress from the theme leaders.
The presentations were live-streamed and can be viewed via the link below or on our YouTube channel.
Scroll to the bottom of the page for more AGM photos.
Keynote (Theme 1)
Teddi Herring
Title: Key Outcomes of the Canadian Permafrost Electrical Resistivity Survey (CPERS) Database Project.
Keynote (Theme 1)
Zakieh Mohammadi
Title: Permafrost Geotechnical Data: Thaw Consolidation Test Results and Their Application in Settlement Estimation.
Keynote (Theme 1)
Omid Asghari
Title: Permafrost Index Properties and development of the Ground Ice Potential database of PermafrostNet.
Keynote (Theme 2)
Emma Street
Title: Exploring Traditional Knowledge of Permafrost in the Gwich’in Settlement Area and Inuvialuit Settlement Region.
Keynote (Theme 2)
Allison Plourde
Title: InSAR time series analysis of seasonal active layer dynamics in low-land permafrost terrain.
Keynote (Theme 3)
Hannah Macdonell
Title: Guiding model selection for effective adaptation decision making: A statistical ranking framework.
Keynote (Theme 3)
Galina Jonat
Title: Deriving climate forcing data for simulations of future permafrost thaw.
Keynote (Theme 4)
Andrew Clark
Title: Advancing Arctic coastal erosion measurement and monitoring through UAV-SfM and object-based image analysis.
Keynote (Theme 5)
Rae Landriau
Title: Performance of Drilling Waste Sumps, Western Arctic Canada.
Theme 1 update
Theme 2 update
Theme 3 update
Theme 4 update
Theme 5 update
Theme 2 synthesis
Posters
Thank you to all the the poster presenters at this year’s AGM. Posters were presented in-person in the terrace ballroom and attendees were able to vote for their favourite. Awards were given for best poster presentation and best designed poster.
Congratulations to Hannah Macdonell (Carleton University) for the best poster and Nicole Corbiere (Laurentian University) for the best poster design.
You can see all the poster pdfs below the photos.
Click on the right-hand side images below to see the full poster pdf.
Allison Plourde
Title: InSAR Time Series Analysis of Seasonal Active Layer Dynamics in Low-Land Permafrost Terrain – Northwest Territories, Canada.
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Andrew Clark
Title: Advancing Arctic coastal erosion measurement and monitoring through UAV-SfM and object-based image analysis.
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Danielle Chiasson
Title: Peat as a portal to the past.
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Erika Hille
Title: Characterizing the response of Arctic streams and rivers to permafrost thaw.
Gabriel Karam
Title: The Effects of Environmental Controls on Epigenetic Ice Wedge Cracking.
Galina Jonat
Title: A proposed framework to generate climate forcing for
simulations of future permafrost thaw.
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Hannah MacDonell
Title: Guiding model selection for effective adaptation decision making: A statistical ranking framework.
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Hosein Fereydooni
Title: Ice Core Detection with Spectral Polarization: A Haines Junction Case Study.
Khatereh Roghangar
Title: A Study of Thermal Modeling Parameters and Their Impact on Modelled Permafrost Responses to Climate Warming.
Léa Cornette
Title: The effects of wildfires on permafrost thaw and soil
nutrients in an Arctic tundra ecosystem.
Nick Brown
Title: Preliminary evaluation of temperature-derived metrics for
more comprehensive permafrost monitoring.
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Nicole Corbiere
Title: Mercury and methyl mercury concentrations in drained basin complexes in Old Crow Flats, Yukon, Canada.
Olivia Meier-Legault
Title: Evaluating Permafrost Thaw and Ground Temperature Change from Borehole Data in Canada.
Pia Blake
Title: The effect of snow and soil on the ground thermal regime in
steep bedrock slopes.
Rose Lefebvre
Title: Quantifying the contribution of a feather moss cover
on the boreal forest ground thermal regime.
Tabatha Rahman
Title: Ice-wedge morphology, distribution, and volume in the Barrens of the Hudson Bay Lowlands, northern Manitoba.
Teddi Herring
Title: Initial outcomes of the Canadian Permafrost Electrical Resistivity Survey (CPERS) database project.
Usman Iqbal Ahmed
Title: Linear Infrastructure & Permafrost Monitoring with SAR & Optical Data.
Zakieh Mohammadi
Title: An approach for qualitative evaluation of permafrost thaw-settlement potential.
Project summary materials
