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Course Name	Turkish	Permafrost Dinamiği ve Manzaralar
	English	Permafrost Dynamics and Landscapes
Course Code	JDM 632E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	2	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Georg Johannes Schwamborn
Course Objectives		1. To teach students past and present geocryology (excl. glacier ice) with permafrost distribution and landforms, 2. To teach active and inactive cryogenic processes and frost action, 3. To show impacts of climate change in permafrost and periglacial landscape including the multidisciplinary methods used for doing the research on this.
Course Description		This course is concerned with earth surface cryogenic processes and landforms present in (Sub) Arctic, Antarctic and High Mountain environments. It highlights permafrost dynamics and landscapes as a part of cold, non-glacial geosciences. The focus is on multidisciplinary research and its results carried out upon modern permafrost change and relict permafrost features. It includes geomorphological, hydrological, and engineering aspects.
Course Outcomes		Graduate students gain basic understanding in the following subjects 1. Definition and distribution of permafrost, permafrost landscapes, landforms 2. Impact of permafrost aggradation/degradation on the land surface; thermokarst; coastal erosion and sediment fluxes; mass wasting, rock fall and rock avalanches; soil erosion; carbon flux changes; forest fire; impacts on vegetation and ecosystems 3. Permafrost distribution/depth/thickness; origin of permafrost, including alpine and offshore permafrost, and relation to climate; forms of ground ice; thermal regime of active layer/permafrost ; frozen ground chemistry, mechanics and physics; planetary permafrost 4. Relict or ancient (Pleistocene) periglacial structures, deposits and landforms; pseudomorphs; frozen ground chemistry, mechanics and physics; planetary permafrost, landforms; pseudomorphs; palaeogeographic, palaeo-climatic and palaeo-environmental reconstruction and implications 5. Interaction between man and permafrost landscapes, impacts of geotechnical engineering (buildings, bridges, roads, mining, oil and gas exploration etc.) 6. Multidisciplinary research on permafrost; geophysics (seismics, resistivity, GPR), remote sensing, stable isotope geochemistry, thermal modelling, sensitivity of permafrost ecosystems
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Textbook		French, Hugh M. 2007. The Periglacial Environment, 3rd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 458 p. DOI:10.1002/9781118684931.
Other References		Margesin, R. (Ed.). (2009). Permafrost soils, Springer Science & Business Media, 348 p. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540693703

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