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THAWIMPACT presentation at the EGU General Assembly
PhD student Joana Baptista (CEG/IGOT-ULisboa) participated in the EGU General Assembly held in Vienna from April 14th to 19th, where she presented the "Cryogrid potential for modelling permafrost temperature in Maritime Antarctica (Barton Peninsula, King George Island)".
Successful Conclusion of COASTANTAR Expedition 2024
At the conclusion of the COASTANTAR Expedition, the scientists aboard gathered for an initial assessment of the expedition's achievements, limitations, and challenges.
COASTANTAR 2024 Expedition website was launched.
COASTANTAR 2024 Expedition website was launched! Visit the webpage at https://coastantar.wordpress.com/ to find out more about the mission, associated projects and team involved.
COASTANTAR retreat at Serra da Estrela
COASTANTAR participants were reunited at a mountain retreat in Serra da Estrela to discuss the details of the COASTANTAR 2024 Expedition that will sail along the Western Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
COASTANTAR 2024 Expedition presented at the XV PCPS
At the XV PCPS, Professor Gonçalo Vieira unveiled the COASTANTAR 2024 Expedition, an exciting adventure that will take place aboard a sailing boat which will travel along the Antarctic Peninsula.
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New THAWIMPACT publication released!
Farzamian, M. et al. (2024) published "Advancing permafrost monitoring with Autonomous Electrical Resistivity Tomography (A-ERT): Low-cost instrumentation and open-source data processing tool" available at https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105770.
THAWIMPACT Antarctic Campaign 2023-2024
During the 2023-2024 Antarctic Campaign, the THAWIMPACT project had researchers organised in teams, positioned in different sites of the Antarctic Peninsula and aboard of the COASTANTAR Expedition.
New THAWIMPACT publication released!
Prates, G. et al. (2023) published a new study entitled " Surface Displacement of Hurd Rock Glacier from 1956 to 2019 from Historical Aerial Frames and Satellite Imagery (Livingston Island, Antarctic Peninsula)" at the Remote Sensing. Available at https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15143685.
New THAWIMPACT publication released!
Hrbáček, F. et al. (2023) published a new study entitled " Variability of soil moisture on three sites in the Northern Antarctic Peninsula in 2022/23" at the Czech Polar Reports. Available at doi.org/10.5817/CPR2023-1-2
THAWIMPACT at the XV PCPS
Master and PhD students involved in the THAWIMPACT project presented their work at the XV Portuguese Conference of Polar Sciences.
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New THAWIMPACT publication released!
Baptista, J. et al. (2024) published a new study entitled "Ground surface temperature regimes are controlled by the topography and snow cover in the ice-free areas of Maritime Antarctica", available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2024.107947.
Public presentation of the COASTANTAR Expedition
The public presentation of the 1st Portuguese Scientific Expedition aboard a sailing vessel, organised by the PROPOLAR and the POLAR2E/ULisboa, took place on January 26 at the TTC University of Lisbon auditorium.
Laboratory analysis of permafrost soil samples!
THAWIMPACT and PERCONTACT team has been working at C2TN analysing soil samples collected in Deception Island, Antarctica. The main goal is to study the content of specific trace-elements and to acquire knowledge about their bioavailability.
THAWIMPACT team in sea survival training formation
The participation of the THAWIMPACT at the COASTANTAR 2024 Expedition is being prepared. On November 11th the team had a training formation led by FOR-MAR.
Kick-off meeting of the project THAWIMPACT at IGOT in May
The kick-off meeting of THAWIMPACT - took place on the 31 May at IGOT. This 3-year FCT-funded project counts with the participation of CEG/IGOT, CQE/IST, DCT- University of Coimbra and IPMA.
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Instituto de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território, Universidade de Lisboa Rua Branca Edmée Marques 1600-276 Lisboa, Portugal Email: [email protected] |
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This project is funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) under grant No . 2022.06628.PTDC.
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