The website is a joint venture with the Arctic Portal and boasts a wide range of new features through user membership, including access to permafrost data, membership on the new PERMALIST mailing list, access to picture galleries, IPA documents, and other resources. It is regularly updated with news from the IPA and member countries, and will be progressively enhanced.PERMALIST is a new activity of the IPA and is an email-based, un-moderated mailing list focused on permafrost activities, resources, event announcements, etc. It is accessible to all with an interest in permafrost and periglacial activities. It is coupled to user membership on the website, and only users can post to the mailing list. PERMALIST
is hosted by the International Arctic Research Center (IARC) in Fairbanks, Alaska. More information on PERMALIST, including registration, can be found at:
http://ipa.arcticportal.org/index.php/resources/permalist.html

The International Permafrost Association, founded in 1983, has as its objectives to foster the dissemination of knowledge concerning permafrost and to promote cooperation among persons and national or international organizations engaged in scientific investigation and engineering work on permafrost.

For further information, please go to:
http://ipa-permafrost.org

Or contact:
Hugues Lantuit
Email: Hugues.Lantuit@awi.de