PERMANTAR activities in 2019 are just starting, with the maintenance of the observatories along the Antarctic Peninsula and the South Shetlands being conducted by 4 field teams, and also a new borehole to be installed in Barton Peninsula (King George Island) and new electrical resistivity surveys to be conducted in Deception Island:
- Deception Island - Mohammad Farzamian (IDL/ULISBOA) and Miguel Angel de Pablo (UAH) will maintain the observatories of Crater Lake, Irizar, Alluval fan and Chilean hut, and will install a new monitoring electrical resistivitimeter in Crater Lake, as well as repeat surveys to compare with observations one decade ago.
- Barton Peninsula - Gonçalo Vieira, Carlos Neto, Joana Baptista (CEG/IGOT-ULISBOA), Daniel Vondermuehll (ETH), Pedro Pina and Vasco Miranda (CERENA/IST) in collaboration with the Korean Polar Research Institute (Soon Gyu Hong) will drill a new permafrost borehole.
- Hurd Pensinsula (Livingston Island) - Dragomir Mateev, Oleg Vassilev (Bulgarian Antarctic Institute) with the support of Nuno Pereira (IPB) will conduct the maintenance of the permafrost observatories Ohridski Station, Ohridski 1 CALM and Ohridski 2 Papagal, and conduct GNSS survey of terrain deformation at the PERMANTAR solifluction monitoring sites and Hurd rock glacier.
- Cierva Cove - Pedro Almeida (UBI) will do the maintenance of the two active permafrost boreholes.
- Amsler Island (Palmer archipelago) - Support provided by the National Science Foundation for downloading borehole data.
- Deception Island - Mohammad Farzamian (IDL/ULISBOA) and Miguel Angel de Pablo (UAH) will maintain the observatories of Crater Lake, Irizar, Alluval fan and Chilean hut, and will install a new monitoring electrical resistivitimeter in Crater Lake, as well as repeat surveys to compare with observations one decade ago.
- Barton Peninsula - Gonçalo Vieira, Carlos Neto, Joana Baptista (CEG/IGOT-ULISBOA), Daniel Vondermuehll (ETH), Pedro Pina and Vasco Miranda (CERENA/IST) in collaboration with the Korean Polar Research Institute (Soon Gyu Hong) will drill a new permafrost borehole.
- Hurd Pensinsula (Livingston Island) - Dragomir Mateev, Oleg Vassilev (Bulgarian Antarctic Institute) with the support of Nuno Pereira (IPB) will conduct the maintenance of the permafrost observatories Ohridski Station, Ohridski 1 CALM and Ohridski 2 Papagal, and conduct GNSS survey of terrain deformation at the PERMANTAR solifluction monitoring sites and Hurd rock glacier.
- Cierva Cove - Pedro Almeida (UBI) will do the maintenance of the two active permafrost boreholes.
- Amsler Island (Palmer archipelago) - Support provided by the National Science Foundation for downloading borehole data.