Questionnaire on Isotope/Geochemistry of Permafrost
To fill out the questionnaire see the end of this message or visit:
http://www.awi-potsdam.de/www-pot/geo/fragebogen.html
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce a new, still small website of the Task Force
"Isotope/Geochemistry of Permafrost" of the International Permafrost
Association (IPA) under:
http://www.awi-potsdam.de/www-pot/geo/isotask.html
The site is intended to inform researches of activities related to
isotope and geochemical research in periglacial and permafrost regions.
Rein Vaikmae (Tallinn Technical University, Estonia) is the Task Force
chair, assisted by Hans-W. Hubberten and Hanno Meyer (Secretariat),
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam,
Germany.
The objectives of the Task Force are to promote application of isotope
and geochemical methods in permafrost research, to identify the main
gaps in knowledge for successful application of isotopic methods in
permafrost studies, and to develop an internationally accepted protocol
for permafrost researchers. For these purposes, a questionnaire on
isotope/geochemistry has been developed. This questionnaire is online
under:
http://www.awi-potsdam.de/www-pot/geo/fragebogen.html
or available via email upon request from hmeyer [at] awi-potsdam.de. Based on
the results and responses to this questionnaire either a formal
application for a new IPA working group on Isotope/Geochemistry of
Permafrost would be prepared for the IPA Council meeting at the
International Conference on Permafrost (ICOP) to be held in July in
Zürich, or if insufficient interest, to recommend that the Task Force
activities be concluded. Therefore, we would kindly invite you to
devote a few minutes to answer the questions and to help to initiate a
new working group related to isotope and geochemistry research. Please
distribute this information to interested colleagues and apologies in
advance for cross-posting.
Thank you for your participation.
Regards,
Hanno Meyer, Task Force Secretariat
Questionnaire:
Investigator's Name:
Institution:
Email:
Are you interested in and/or active in isotope/geochemistry of
permafrost?
Which isotopes are you studying (H, O, C, N, S, others)?
What analytical facilities do you use?
Are you using other geochemical tracers (elements, radio-isotopes,
etc.)?
In which areas of the Arctic/Antarctic are you working (give
coordinates, height above sea level)?
What type of material are you studying (ice, water, soil etc.)?
What types of archives are your studies related to? (ground ice,
glaciers, active layer, etc.)?
What is the main interest of your isotope /geochemistry research? (e.g.
climate reconstruction, provenance studies, genesis, etc.)
Which is your interest to participate in the TF?
Do you have recommendations for activities of the TF (e.g. isotope
bibliography of permafrost, Circum-Arctic isotope maps, methodological
exchange between labs, etc.)?
Where do you see the main gaps in knowledge of isotopic methods in
permafrost studies?
Do you have publications related to isotope/geochemistry of permafrost?
Give citations.