Frans-Jan W. Parmentier, Associate Professor in Geobiosphere Science

Time 2021-01-09 12:05:32

Web Name: Frans-Jan W. Parmentier, Associate Professor in Geobiosphere Science

WebSite: http://www.thissideofthearctic.org

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I am an arctic climate scientist, studying the interaction between the land and the atmosphere. I am particularly interested in how the carbon uptake of arctic vegetation is impacted by extreme winter events and how climate change affects permafrost thaw and the release of greenhouse gases. In my research, I draw from a long experience in studying the functioning of ecosystems across the Arctic – in northeast Siberia, Svalbard, Alaska, Greenland and northern Scandinavia. I wield the knowledge gained from these field campaigns to derive new insights from satellite data and to advance the development of land surface models. Currently, I'm leading the Norwegian-Swedish research project WINTERPROOF (2018-2022) in which we aim to improve the interactions among snow, vegetation and permafrost in the models CLM-FATES and LPJ-GUESS. The overal goal is to improve model projections of arctic climate feedbacks. In this project, funded by both the Research Council of Norway and the Swedish Research Council, I supervise two PhD students and we collaborate with a number of institutes from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and France. Adventdalen on Svalbard, one of my main fieldwork areas. The cottongrass (Eriophorum scheuchzeri) pictured in the foreground plays an important role in the production and emission of the potent greenhouse gas methane. Past Research Experience Over the years, I have worked at several research institutes in Scandinavia and the Netherlands. I received my PhD in 2011 from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands for my dissertation on the drivers of greenhouse gas exchange from tundra ecosystems. As part of my research, I frequently traveled to the Kytalyk nature reserve in northeast Siberia to do fieldwork. I continued as a postdoc at Lund University in Sweden, where I studied connections between the arctic carbon cycle and sea ice decline since the latter plays an important role in the amplified warming of the region. While I worked in Lund, I was also a visiting researcher at Aarhus University in Denmark. In 2016, I started a research project of my own, hosted at the Norwegian Research Institute Nibio, to investigate how an extreme winter event affected the CO2 uptake of a subarctic peatland. This project was followed by a research stay at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø. Since 2018, I have a research position that I share 50/50 between Lund University and the University of Oslo – funded by the young research talent grant and starting grant that I received from the Norwegian and Swedish research councils, respectively.

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Frans-Jan Parmentier is an arctic scientist who studies the impact of climate change on tundra ecosystems and permafrost thaw, and how this may lead to the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

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