The International Permafrost Association promotes research in permafrost within the global scientific community and disseminates findings to the general public.
Nominations for two Executive Committee members and for the Lifetime Achievement Award
📢 IPA Executive Committee Elections 2026
🏆 IPA Lifetime Achievement Award 2026
🗓️ Deadline: 15 February 2026
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🌎 23 World Congress of Soil Science
☀️🌧️Are you coming to Nanjing and would like to know about the weather and local delicacies? Check it out in the posters below
#IUSS100#23WCSS#weather#food#whattowear
From June 30, 2026, the official website for the next ICOP2028, which will be held in Florence in June 2028, will become active. The general information about the conference and the general program of the conference will be available at icop2028.org
Permafrost Discovery Gateway (PDG) webinar will be held on Thursday May 21, 2026, at 9:00 am AKT
Modeling Arctic Tundra Capillary Networks with Sub-meter Resolution Satellite Imagery, GeoAI, and Graph Theory
Michael Pimenta, University of Connecticut
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CPA Webinar Series 21: Navigating a Changing Arctic: Shipping Risk, Dynamic Ice, and Emerging Coastal Vulnerabilities
Speaker: Dr. Jean Holloway
📅Friday, May 22 at 2 pm EST
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PDG Webinar: Integrating Building Volume and Occupancy Type into Circumpolar Arctic Infrastructure Damage Projections
Speaker: Elias Manos, University of Connecticut
Date: Thursday April 30, 2026 at 9:00 am AKT
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AG & SC leaders will present recent activities, exchange ideas, and discuss how IPA can support future work.
📅 29 April 2026
🕓 16:00 (CET)
Meeting link will be shared with the agenda a few days in advance.
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PDG Webinar: Indigenous Knowledge Put to Work-Using Tundra Sod in Restoration
Speaker: Lorene Lynn, Red Mountain Consulting
The Permafrost Discovery Gateway (PDG) invites you to join our monthly webinar series on Thursday March 26, 2026 at 9:00 am AKT
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Applications Open for ACOP 2026 Travel Grants and PermaCOST Training School
PYRN-IPA ACOP Grants
📅March 20 at 23:59 GMT
ACOP Organizing Committee Grants
📅March 10, 2026
PermaCOST Training School
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📘 Frozen Ground 48 is now available online!
Many thanks to all contributors for making this issue possible.
Chen. L., Gärtner-Roer I., Vieira G., and Burn, C.R. (eds.) 2025. Frozen Ground 48 (2024). International Permafrost Association (IPA). DOI: 10.52381/IPA.FG482025.1.
🚨 Deadline extended! 🚨 Submit your poster abstracts, white papers, and short statements for the Arctic Observing Summit 2026 in Aarhus, Denmark.
Don’t miss your chance to shape Arctic science with us! ❄️
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📢3rd Asian Conference on Permafrost (ACOP2026)
the deadlines for conference registration and travel grant applications for ACOP 2026 have been extended to 15 February 2026.
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IPA Action Group: Saline Permafrost
A recent Science news feature highlights how buried salt layers along Arctic coasts thaw at subzero temperatures—deepening lakes, destabilizing shorelines, and threatening infrastructure.
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How can #Arcticknowledge be shared more effectively with communities, policymakers, and industry? @ArcticScienceJ is looking for research that explores knowledge mobilization, from traditional methods to innovative, unconventional formats. More info ▶️ ow.ly/kqzl50VrAws
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IPA Action Group 2026-2027 call
IPA Action Groups are meant to fund targeted groups working on permafrost towards the production of well-defined products.
Application deadline: 31 December 2025 (link).
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The 9th Canadian Permafrost Conference was held in association with the 78th Canadian Geotechnical Conference at GeoManitoba 2025 in Winnipeg, 20 – 25 September, featuring over 250 presentations in total.
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