Carbon in permafrost soils: CarboPerm network granted

To answer these questions, the German Ministry for Research has recently funded the German-Russian cooperation project CarboPerm by providing 4.5 Mio Euro for the next three years.
Two departments of MPI-BGC take part in this network: Martin Heimann’s department will characterize and quantify the processes driving carbon fluxes in two Siberian permafrost sites. Markus Reichstein’s department will model CO2 budgets and CH4 emissions on regional to global scales by including ecosystem processes, to improve understanding of the overall greenhouse gas balance.
The studies will be jointly performed with Russian partners. German partners of the network include Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung, the universities of Hamburg, Köln and Potsdam, Helmholtz-Center Potsdam Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum, Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, TU Bergakademie Freiberg and Leibniz-Institut für Angewandte Geophysik.