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Book of Abstracts of EUCOP4 – 4th European Conference on Permafrost 18-21 June 2014 - Évora, Portugal EUCOP4 - Book of Abstracts 4th European Conference on Permafrost 18-21 June 2014 Évora, Portugal Editors Gonçalo Vieira University of Lisbon, CEG/IGOT Lisboa, Portugal Pedro Pina University of Lisbon, CERENA/IST Lisboa, Portugal Carla Mora University of Lisbon, CEG/IGOT Lisboa, Portugal António Correia University of Évora, CGE Évora, Portugal Published by the University of Lisbon and the University of Évora June 2014 Book of Abstracts of EUCOP4 – 4th European Conference on Permafrost 18-21 June 2014 - Évora, Portugal PREFACE EUCOP4, the 4th European Conference on Permafrost and Regional Conference of the International Permafrost Association is hosted by the Portuguese Universities of Lisbon and Évora and is to be held in Évora from the 18th to the 21st June 2014. The conference provided the opportunity to bring together researchers from all over the world to present and discuss some of the most recent advances and results in permafrost and related subjects. More than 370 researchers from 24 countries have registered. A very positive response to the Call for Papers for EUCOP4 was obtained, with more than four hundred and fifty submissions. This book contains 425 abstracts, including those from the 3 plenary lectures, 1 from The Wiley-Blackwell Permafrost and Periglacial Processes Public Lecture and 23 session keynote lectures. The high quality of the scientific program is to be thanked to the authors and also to the chairs of the 23 thematic sessions, that made a fantastic work in their promotion and also in conducting all reviewing and selection procedures. We are very indebted to all of them. We are also very pleased to benefit from the participation of our guest speakers Prof Oleg Anisimov, State Hydrological Institute (Russia), Prof Frederick Nelson, Univ. Wisconsin (USA), Prof James Bockheim, Univ. Wisconsin-Madison (USA) and Prof Christian Hauck, Univ. Fribourg (Switzerland), for their plenary lectures. We are also very delighted to receive at EUCOP4 ‘The Wiley-Blackwell Permafrost and Periglacial Processes Public Lecture - PPP Award for Excellence in Permafrost Research’ by Prof. Chris Burn, Carleton University (Canada). We express our gratitude to these world renowned experts on permafrost. The International Scientific Committee has supported the Local Organizing Committee since an early stage in defining the science program and has provided timely comments on key questions on the organization. We are indebted to all members who accepted to support us. Special thanks are due to Toni Lewkowicz, Hanne H. Christiansen, Bernd Etzelmuller, Hans Hubberten and Miguel Ramos for their support. The International Permafrost Association Council members are also warmly thanked for their support towards the organization of this conference in Portugal. Finally, as editors of the Book of Abstracts, we acknowledge the excellent support, patience and cooperative spirit of all the Local Organizing Committee: Alexandre Nieuwendam, Alice Ferreira, Ana Salomé David, André Oliveira da Fonseca, Gonçalo Prates, João Canário, Lourenço Bandeira, Marc Oliva, Mário Neves and Maura Lousada. We are very pleased to welcome all the participants of EUCOP4 in Évora and look forward for another excellent European Conference on Permafrost, after Rome (2001), Potsdam (2005) and Longyearbyen (2010). Évora, June 2014 Gonçalo Vieira Pedro Pina Carla Mora António Correia Book of Abstracts of EUCOP4 – 4th European Conference on Permafrost 18-21 June 2014 - Évora, Portugal Book of Abstracts of EUCOP4 – 4th European Conference on Permafrost 18-21 June 2014 - Évora, Portugal INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Adriano Ribolini, Università di Pisa, Italy Hugh French, University of Ottawa, Canada Andreas Kellerer-Pirklbauer, Graz Huijun Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Technology, Austria Lanzhou, China Anna Kurchatova, Tyumen State Oil and James Bockheim, University of Wisconsin- Gas University, Russian Federation Madison, USA Antoni Lewkowicz, University of Ottawa, Jerry Brown, Woods Hole, USA Canada João Canário, University of Lisbon, Portugal António Correia, University of Évora, Joseph Levy, Oregon State University, USA Portugal Ko van Huissteden, Vrije Universiteit António Gomez Órtiz, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Barcelona, Spain Lourenço Bandeira, University of Lisbon, Augusto Pérez-Alberti, University of Portugal Santiago de Compostela, Spain Marc Oliva, University of Lisbon, Portugal Bernd Etzelmüller, University of Oslo, Mário Neves, University of Lisbon, Portugal Norway Mauro Guglielmin, University of Insubria, Bo Elberling, University of Copenhagen, Italy Denmark Michel Allard, Université de Laval, Canada Carla Mora, University of Lisbon, Portugal Miguel Ramos, University of Alcalá de Carlos Schaefer, Federal University of Henares, Spain Viçosa, Brazil Oleg Anisimov, State Hydrological Institute, Christian Hauck, University of Fribourg, Russia Switzerland Ole Humlum, University of Oslo, Norway Enrique Serrano, University of Valladolid, Pedro Pina, University of Lisbon, Portugal Spain Peter Kuhry, Stockholm University, Sweden Ernst Hauber, DLR, Germany Rajmund Przybylak, Nicolaus Copernicus Frederick Nelson, University of Delaware, University, Poland USA Reynald Delaloye, Université de Fribourg, Gisle Håland, Statoil, Norway Switzerland Gonçalo Vieira, University of Lisbon, Stephan Gruber, University of Zurich, Portugal Switzerland Hanne H. Christiansen, The University Vladimir Romanovsky, University of Alaska, Centre in Svalbard, Norway Fairbanks, USA Hans Hubberten, Alfred Wegener Institute Wilfried Haeberli, University of Zurich, for Polar and Marine Research, Switzerland Germany Book of Abstracts of EUCOP4 – 4th European Conference on Permafrost 18-21 June 2014 - Évora, Portugal LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Gonçalo Vieira, University of Lisbon, CEG/IGOT – Chair Alexandre Nieuwendam, University of Lisbon, CEG/IGOT Alice Ferreira, University of Lisbon, CEG/IGOT Ana David, University of Lisbon, CEG/IGOT André Fonseca, University of Évora, CGE António Correia, University of Évora, CGE Carla Mora, University of Lisbon, CEG/IGOT Gonçalo Prates, University of Algarve and CEG/IGOT João Canário, University of Lisbon, CQE/IST Lourenço Bandeira, University of Lisbon, CERENA/IST Marc Oliva, University of Lisbon, CEG/IGOT Mário Neves, University of Lisbon, CEG/IGOT Maura Lousada, University of Lisbon, CERENA/IST Pedro Pina, University of Lisbon, CERENA/IST 6 Book of Abstracts of EUCOP4 – 4th European Conference on Permafrost 18-21 June 2014 - Évora, Portugal 7 Book of Abstracts of EUCOP4 – 4th European Conference on Permafrost 18-21 June 2014 - Évora, Portugal 8 Book of Abstracts of EUCOP4 – 4th European Conference on Permafrost 18-21 June 2014 - Évora, Portugal TABLE OF CONTENTS PLENARY LECTURES ........................................................................................................................................... 11 PUBLIC LECTURE ................................................................................................................................................ 17 PERMAFROST RESEARCH AND SOCIETY: FROM HISTORY TO THE FUTURE ....................................................... 21 S1+S2. History of permafrost research and education and outreach ............................................................ 21 S3. Open session on permafrost ..................................................................................................................... 35 PERMAFROST ENVIRONMENTS - INTERDISCIPLINARY CROSSROADS ............................................................... 59 S4. Periglacial geomorphology ....................................................................................................................... 59 S5. Permafrost and mountain microbiology: from microbial function, adaptation and activity to environmental impacts ......................................................................................................................... 105 S6.Biogeochemistry of permafrost in transition ........................................................................................... 117 S7. Topography and microclimate effects on permafrost and seasonally frozen ground ........................... 151 S8. From kinematics to dynamics: geomorphic and physical controls of permafrost creep ....................... 183 S9. Limnological processes in permafrost environments ............................................................................. 199 S10. Dynamics of ice-wedge polygons and thermokarst in tundra landscapes – inventory, functioning and development ......................................................................................................................................... 223 S11. Planetary permafrost, geomorphology and Earth analogues ............................................................... 243 S23. From coastal to subsea permafrost ...................................................................................................... 255 PERIGLACIAL PALEOENVIRONMENTS .............................................................................................................. 277 S12. Techniques of paleoenvironmental reconstruction from periglacial deposits ....................................