03.09.2015: In the Arctic, climate change is unfolding faster than anywhere else on Earth. GFZ scientist Torsten Sachs, section Inorganic and Isotope Geochemistry, is part of the newly launched long-term study ABoVE (Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment) of NASA’s Terrestrial Ecology Program that aims at a gaining a better understanding of the impacts of climate change on arctic environments.

The project „Quantifying CO2 and CH4 Fluxes from Vulnerable Arctic-Boreal Ecosystems Across Spatial and Temporal Scales“ in wich Dr. Torsten Sachs is a collaborator, is one of the first projects funded by ABoVE. Under the responsibility of Dr. Charles Miller, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, ground-based process studies in Alaska and western Canada as well as spatial data from airplanes and satellites are used in combination with modelling approaches to provide new insights into how climate change is affecting the arctic carbon cycle. The results will also serve as a scientific base for decision makers.

The project runs for four years and has a financial volume of 1 Millionen US Dollar. In addition to his work within this specific project, Dr. Sachs was appointed to the ABoVE Science Team that initiates the science implementation plan and further develops the program throughout the eight to ten year duration.

More information on the project can be found here>> and here>>

At GFZ Dr. Torsten Sachs is head of the Helmholtz Young Investigators Group TEAM>>