Joana Baptista collecting the logger from King Sejong Station borehole for recalibration after the first year of data survey.
Mohammad Farzamian installing the new quasi-continuous monitoring resistivimeter at Reina Sofia Peak, close to the 25 m deep borehole.
This austral summer season has been a busy one for the PERMANTAR team, with field teams working in King George Island (Gonçalo Vieira and Joana Baptista), Hurd Peninsula (Mohammad Farzamian, John Triantafilis, Gabriel Goyanes, Vasco Miranda and Miguel Angel de Pablo), Deception Island (Miguel Esteves and Miguel Angel de Pablo), Cierva Cove (Claudio Matko) and in Amsler Island (Palmer station staff support). All data was collected successfully in this summer that has been a really warm one in nothern Antarctic Peninsula as we have already noticed in some of the borehole data. We are now starting to analyse it and really curious on how far reaching will be the impacts on permafrost, something and we will only start to better grasp next season when the heat will reach deeper levels in the boreholes.
The borehole installed in 2019 in Barton Peninsula has also provided the first full year data series, feeding directly into the masters thesis of Joana Baptista, working on spatial modelling of ground temperature.
As an highlight, the ANTARMON team lead by Mohammad Farzamian has got a full year-long data set from the resistivimeter installed in Deception Island and installed a new one in Livingston Island. This is an important upgrade to the PERMANTAR network, which will be including resistivimeters at the key boreholes for monitoring permafrost degradation and changes in ice content of the ground.
It is now time to work the new data.
This campaign would not have been possible without the funding of the Portuguese Polar Program (FCT) and the logistical support of the Spanish Polar Program, the Korean Polar Research Institute, the Chilean Antarctic Institute, the Argentinean Antarctic Institute and the National Science Foundation. Thank you very much!
The borehole installed in 2019 in Barton Peninsula has also provided the first full year data series, feeding directly into the masters thesis of Joana Baptista, working on spatial modelling of ground temperature.
As an highlight, the ANTARMON team lead by Mohammad Farzamian has got a full year-long data set from the resistivimeter installed in Deception Island and installed a new one in Livingston Island. This is an important upgrade to the PERMANTAR network, which will be including resistivimeters at the key boreholes for monitoring permafrost degradation and changes in ice content of the ground.
It is now time to work the new data.
This campaign would not have been possible without the funding of the Portuguese Polar Program (FCT) and the logistical support of the Spanish Polar Program, the Korean Polar Research Institute, the Chilean Antarctic Institute, the Argentinean Antarctic Institute and the National Science Foundation. Thank you very much!
