Permafrost Grown: Cultivating knowledge of permafrost-agroecosystems w farmer knowledge coproduction скачать в хорошем качестве

Permafrost Grown: Cultivating knowledge of permafrost-agroecosystems w farmer knowledge coproduction

A warming arctic is increasing the opportunities for agriculture in high latitude areas while simultaneously driving the degradation of near-surface permafrost that can lead to field abandonment. Little is known about the interactions between permafrost and cultivation practices within permafrost-affected soils known as permafrost-agroecosystems. For the expansion of high-latitude agriculture to be sustainable, research needs to account for the heterogeneity of permafrost, agriculture and social systems and include high-latitude resident farmers. The February 2022 meeting of the Permafrost Collaboration Team featured an overview of the recently funded Permafrost Grown Project, a transdisciplinary project funded by the National Science Foundation’s Navigating the New Arctic Program that focuses on the co-production of knowledge with Alaskan and Siberian farmers to study the interactions and feedbacks within permafrost-agroecosystems. This three-part presentation was as follows: (1) Glenna Gannon provided an overview of the northward expansion of agriculture and how to evaluate change in agricultural systems; (2) Melissa Ward Jones provided an overview of permafrost and potential permafrost degradation scenarios within permafrost-agroecosystems, (3) Iris Sutton shared her experience of farming in permafrost-affected soils in Fairbanks, AK. Want to join future IARPC meetings or webinars? Request an account on our member space where U.S. federal government program managers, scientists, and community members from state, academic, Indigenous, nonprofit, and private sector organizations team up to solve hard problems to carry out the research laid out in the Arctic Research Plan. Visit » https://www.iarpccollaborations.org Thumbnail image: Iris Sutton, Ice Wedge Art and Farm