About the funding of GTN-P

Several large, high-impact projects have supported GTN-P by providing consistent and substantial financial backing in the past and continue to do so today, thereby ensuring the continuity and advancement of international permafrost observing. These include the EU-funded initiatives PAGE21, INTERACT I & II, Nunataryuk, and Arctic PASSION, all of which have significantly strengthened coordination, capacity building, and data integration within the GTN-P framework. In particular, during the Arctic PASSION funding period, GTN-P was able to design and establish the new GTN-P Data Platform, substantially improving data accessibility, interoperability, and long-term stewardship. The GTN-P data platform is now sustainably hosted at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), providing a robust institutional foundation for future network growth.

Currently, the GTN-P Office is funded through the Schmidt Sciences Foundation’s Virtual Institute for the Carbon Cycle (VICC), as part of the AWI-led PeTCaT project, which enables GTN-P to strengthen the integration of permafrost observations into global carbon-cycle research and to enhance its contribution to more reliably quantify permafrost carbon-climate feedbacks.