Upcoming Webinar: Landslide Risks in a Changing Climate The Permafrost Discovery Gateway (PDG) and Arctic T-SLIP invite you to join our monthly webinar series on Thursday March 13, 2025 at 9:00 am AKT. The webinar series addresses using big geospatial data and remote sensing for community planning applications across permafrost regions.
March 13, 2025 Landslide Risks in a Changing Climate Speaker: Bretwood ‘Hig' Higman, Ground Truth Alaska Abstract: Landslides have long been a neglected area of natural hazard mitigation, receiving disproportionately less attention both amongst scientists and less public investment in mitigation. As climate change pushes landscapes toward more frequent and dramatic failure, this gap in preparedness is all the more urgent. Hig will lay out some of the key gaps in our understanding, with an emphasis on deep-seated landslides in glaciated and permafrost regions. In particular, deep-seated landslides in permafrost regions are poorly understood despite dramatic potential impacts. Processes unique to permafrost including frost heave and ice-weakening due to strain heating may be complicating these systems, confounding conventional approaches to understanding both permafrost and landslide behavior. The path forward in reducing the risk of these hazards is fraught, but there are exciting possibilities on the horizon. Add PDG webinar series to your calendar: Click here to add to calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/1?cid=Y19qb3ZrYW1pZTc1bGp0YmpzOGEwYTFha241c0Bncm91cC5jYWxlbmRhci5nb29nbGUuY29t> Join us: Zoom Link <https://woodwellclimate-org.zoom.us/j/89487435072?pwd=pH5RseiYFmJ7DzK0NK2zgXQRKo5lPF.1> The Perma <https://arcticdata.io/catalog/portals/permafrost/Imagery-Viewer>frost Discovery Gateway <https://arcticdata.io/catalog/portals/permafrost/Imagery-Viewer> is a NSF and Google.org <http://google.org/> funded intelligent data management platform created to support knowledge-generation in the Arctic permafrost region. The project is aimed to enable community-preparedness by creating big geospatial data products of permafrost thaw features from remote sensing imagery, developing AI tools to identify and track information within the big geospatial data, and building user-friendly online tools to enable scientific discovery, policy, and to empower Arctic communities facing permafrost thaw. For additional PDG information: Explore our Website <https://arcticdata.io/catalog/portals/permafrost/Stay-Connected> For additional Arctic T-SLIP information: https://www.woodwellclimate.org/project/arctic-t-slip/ Upcoming PDG Webinars: April 17, 2025 Water Resource Challenges for Alaska's Remote Communities Speaker: Noah Tsigonis May 15, 2025 A Transdisciplinary, Comparative Analysis Reveals Key Risks from Arctic Permafrost Thaw Speakers: Alexandra Meyer & Johanna Scheer To unsubscribe from this list please go to https://community.esa.org/confirm/?u=RhPWqPxFwODKvbkiT32nkIqRrsiSgulp
