Planned Network: Sedimentary Source-To-Sink-Fluxes in Cold Environments (SEDIFLUX)

Project title:
Source-to-Sink-Fluxes in Cold Environments
Principal investigator
Name: Achim A. Beylich
Title: Dr., Assoc. Professor
Postal address: Geological Survey of Norway, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
Phone number: +47 73 90 4117
Fax number: +47 73 92 1620
Email:
Scientific personnel within the project:
Achim A. Beylich
Collaborators:
Botanical Institute, Göteborg University, Sweden: Ulf Molau et al.
Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden: Else Kolstrup, Laust B. Pedersen et al.
Kevo Subarctic Research Institute, Finland: Seppo Neuvonen et al.
Natural Research Centre of North-western Iceland, Saudarkrokur, Iceland: Þorsteinn Sæmundsson et al.
Icelandic Institute of Natural History, Akureyri, Iceland: Halldór Pétursson
Department of Geology, Helsinki University, Finland: Heikki Seppä
Department of Geography, University of Würzburg, Germany: Christof Kneisel
Institute of Geography, Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/S., Germany: Karl-Heinz Schmidt
Department of Geography, NTNU Trondheim, Norway: Geir Vatne, Ivar Berthling
Start date of project: (01.12.1999) 01.09.2004
(Expected) completion date of project: open
Funding agency: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD, 1999-2001), Swedish Natural Research Council (NFR, VR, 1999-2001), The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1999-2001), Uppsala University (1999-2004), German Science Foundation (DFG, 2002-2004), LAPBIAT EU FP5 (2003), European Science Foundation (ESF, 2004-2006), Geological Survey of Norway (NGU, 2004 -)
Short summary, project description:
The project is focused on the analysis of present-day sediment transfers and sediment budgets in selected cold climate catchments. Of major interest is the quantification of sediment transfers and denudation rates using unified methods. The comparable data sets are used for modelling landscape development and effects of climate change by applying the Ergodic principle of space-for-time substitution. The selected test catchments are situated in cold environments in Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland.
Main goals of the project:

Monitoring of present-day sediment transfers
Analysis of sediment sinks
Analysis of sediment budgets in different catchments in cold environments
Analysis of climatic controls of transfer processes and sediment budgets
Analysis of Form-Process-Material functional relationships
Modelling landscape development
Modelling effects of climate change
Application of unified methods/techniques, generation of comparable data sets from different cold climate catchments

Key words (5 – 10): Sediment transfers; Sediment Budgets; Monitoring; Cold Environments; Climate Change; Landscape Development; Modelling
Study site: Latnjavagge (Sweden), Erdalen (Norway), Strupskarddalen (Norway), Kidisjoki (Finland), Hrafnadalur (Iceland), Austdalur (Iceland), Hofsjøkull/northern forefield (Iceland)
Other comments:
Name of researcher (SEDIFLUX member): Achim A. Beylich
Title of ongoing or recently completed project: Source-to-Sink-Fluxes in Cold Environments
Duration of project (start and (expected) end dates): (1999) 2004 - open
Name of study site: Erdalen

Description of study site

Country: Norway
Area: Nordfjord
Geographical coordinates: 61.50N, 07.10E
Elevation a.s.l.:
Climate: oceanic
Vegetation cover: birch and alpine woods, grassland, barren ground
Topography: Alpine mountains, valley and fjords
Lithology: Gneiss
Other description: catchment, glacier cover in the upper part, no larger snow and ice patches/fields, none permafrost distally to the glacier, Human impacts: Road through the catchment, some cottages, huts, Agriculture, grazing, geo-tourism, field research
Short description of data sets available from this site
(meteorological data sets, data sets from longer term process monitoring etc.):

Glacial chronology
Late glacial/Holocene sediment fluxes
hydrological data
contemporary sediment transfers
some soil development data

Short description of other material which is available from this site
(aerial photographs, DEM, maps, etc.):

aerial photographs
DEM
Geological map 1:5000

Short description of instrumentation and methods used at this study site:

Geomorphic process monitoring (slope and fluvial systems)
Weather station
Quantification of sediment volumes
Geophysical investigations
Mapping

Other comments:
Name of researcher (SEDIFLUX member): Achim A. Beylich
Title of ongoing or recently completed project: Source-to-Sink-Fluxes in Cold Environments
Duration of project (start and (expected) end dates): (1999) 2004 - open
Name of study site: Latnjavagge

Description of study site

Country: Sweden
Area: Abisko mountain area
Geographical coordinates: 68.21N; 18.29E
Elevation a.s.l.: 950-1440
Climate: arctic-oceanic
Vegetation cover: heath and meadows
Topography: U-shaped valley
Lithology: mica shist
Other description: catchment of 9 km2, no glacier cover, snow and ice patches/fields, sporadic-discontinuous permafrost, Human impacts: reindeer husbandry, hiking tourism, field research
Short description of data sets available from this site
(meteorological data sets, data sets from longer term process monitoring etc.):

weather station data
contemporary sediment transfers
contemporary sediment budget
some permafrost data
vegetation map
landscape ecologic. map
phenology
individ species data
grazing exclosures
countings of tourists, reindeers, etc.

Short description of other material which is available from this site
(aerial photographs, DEM, maps, etc.):

aerial photographs
DEM
Topographic map 1:18.000

Short description of instrumentation and methods used at this study site:

Geomorphic process monitoring (slope systems and fluvial systems)
ITEX site
meteorological station (ITEX)

Other comments:
Logistic base within the valley: Latnjajaure Field station (LFS)
15 km away: Abisko Scientific Research Station (ANS)
Name of researcher (SEDIFLUX member): Achim A. Beylich
Title of ongoing or recently completed project: Source-to-Sink-Fluxes in Cold Environments
Duration of project (start and (expected) end dates): (1999) 2004 - open
Name of study site: Kidesjohka

Description of study site

Country: Finland
Area: Kevo region, Finnish Lapland
Geographical coordinates: 69.47N, 27.05E
Elevation a.s.l.: 75-365
Climate: sub-arctic
Vegetation cover: pine and open birch woods, heaths, mires
Topography: Baltic Shield
Lithology: Gneisses
Other description: catchment of 18 km2, no glacier cover, no larger snow and ice patches/fields, no permafrost, Human impacts: Road through the catchment, some cottages, reindeer grazing, tourism, field research
Short description of data sets available from this site
(meteorological data sets, data sets from longer term process monitoring etc.):

temperature data within the valley
nearby (about 3 km) meteorological station (1962 -)
hydrological data
contemporary sediment transfers
contemporary sediment budget
some permafrost data
vegetation map
forest line gardens

Short description of other material which is available from this site
(aerial photographs, DEM, maps, etc.):

aerial photographs
DEM
Topographic map 1:25.000

Short description of instrumentation and methods used at this study site:

Geomorphic process monitoring (fluvial systems)
Temperature data loggers

Other comments:
Logistic base: Kevo Subarctic Research Institute
Name: Achim A. Beylich
Title: Dr. , Assoc. Professor
Position: Senior Geologist, Researcher
Postal address: Geological Survey of Norway, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
Phone number: +47 73 90 4117
Fax number: +47 73 92 1620
Email:
Webpage:
Scientific field: Geomorphology, Physical Geography
Research interests:

Process geomorphology
Sediment budgets
Cold environments
Morphoclimatology
Climate Change
Landscape Ecology

Research areas/study sites:

Swedish Lapland:Latnjavagge
Norway: Erdalen, Strupskarddalen
Finland: Kidisjoki
Iceland: Hrafnadalur, Austdalur, Hofsjøkull/northern forefield

Title, duration (start and completion date) and funding agency of ongoing and recently completed projects which are scientifically related to SEDIFLUX:
Source-to-Sink-Fluxes in Cold Environments
(01.12.1999) 01.09.2004 - open
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD, 1999-2001)
Swedish Natural Research Council (NFR, VR, 1999-2001)
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA, 1999-2001)
Uppsala University (1999-2004)
German Science Foundation (DFG, 2002-2004)
LAPBIAT EU FP5 (2003)
European Science Foundation (ESF, 2004-2006)
Geological Survey of Norway (NGU, 2004 - )
Five key publications of the last 5 years:
Beylich, A.A., Etienne, S., Etzelmüller, B., Gordeev, V.V., Käyhkö, J., Rachold, V., Russell, A.J., Schmidt, K.-H., Sæmundsson, Þ., Tweed, F.S., and Warburton, J. (2005): Sedimentary Source-to-Sink-Fluxes in Cold Environments – Information on the European Science Foundation (ESF) Network SEDIFLUX. – Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie N.F., Suppl.-Vol. 138: 229-234.
Beylich, A.A., Kolstrup, E., Thyrsted, T., Linde, N., Pedersen, L.B., and Dynesius, L. (2004): Chemical denudation in arctic-alpine Latnjavagge (Swedish Lapland) in relation to regolith as assessed by radio magnetotelluric-geophysical profiles. – Geomorphology, 57: 303-319.
Beylich, A.A., Lindblad, K., and Molau, U. (2005): Direct human impacts on mechanical denudation in an arctic-oceanic periglacial environment in northern Swedish Lapland (Abisko mountain area). – Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie N.F., Suppl.-Vol. 138: 81-100.
Beylich, A.A., Molau, U., Luthbom, K., and Gintz, D. (2005): Rates of chemical and mechanical fluvial denudation in an arctic-oceanic periglacial environment, Latnjavagge drainage basin, northernmost Swedish Lapland. – Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 37 (1): 69-81.
Beylich, A.A., Sandberg, O., Molau, U., and Wache, S. (2005): Intensity and spatio-temporal variability of fluvial sediment transfers in an arctic-oceanic periglacial environment in northernmost Swedish Lapland. – Geomorphology (in press).
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