The GeoBasis Disko monitoring program started in 2017 as a part of the cross disciplinary Greenland Environmental Monitoring (GEM) program. GeoBasis Disko is an integrated part of the GeoBasis program, following the same standards as in Nuuk and Zackenberg (two other GEM sites) and largely focusing on the same parameters and methodologies. GeoBasis Disko is finaced by Danish Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Climate.
A close collaboration and synergy with Arctic Station that is manned year round makes it possible to collect and carry out measurements also during winter.As location Qeqertarsuaq on the south coast of the Disko island, represent a Greenlandic west coast climate, with annual mean temperatures just below 0°C, with discontinuous permafrost, and as such remarkably different from the two existing GEM sites. Further, the Disko bay area is highly interesting from a socioeconomic perspective due its high population and active fishery industry, and as one of the most popular tourist destinations in Greenland.
The primary objective of GeoBasis Disko is to establish baseline knowledge on the dynamics of fundamental abiotic terrestrial parameters within the environment/ecosystem around Arctic Station. This is done through a long term collection of data that includes the following sub-topics;
GeoBasis focuses on selected abiotic parameters in order to describe the state of Arctic terrestrial environments and their potential feedback effects in a changing climate. As such, inter-annual variation and long-term trends are of paramount importance.
Charlotte Sigsgaard (Denmark): cs@ign.ku.dk
Thomas Friborg Jakobsen (Denmark): tfj@ign.ku.dk
Please check the "GeoBasis Disko Manual and Guidelines" which will be made available from the homepage: http://g-e-m.dk
Data will be made freely available to the public trough the GEM database http://data.g-e-m.dk
Please check the "GeoBasis Disko Manual and Guidelines" which will be made available from the homepage: http://g-e-m.dk
GeoBasis Disko is reporting to/part of Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring (GEM)
GeoBasis Disko is a direct follow -up on the monitoring program DiskoBasis (2013-2017). When Disko/Arctic Station became incorporated in the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring (GEM) collaboration some of the monitoring components from DiskoBasis are contiuoued under the sub program GeoBasis.