{"id":4358,"date":"2015-09-19T20:02:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T00:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4358"},"modified":"2015-10-02T11:08:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T15:08:33","slug":"first-global-permafrost-database-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/first-global-permafrost-database-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"First global permafrost database launch<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4359\" style=\"width: 539px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Permafrost_infographic_page21.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4359\" class=\"wp-image-4359\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Permafrost_infographic_page21-1024x580.png\" alt=\"Permafrost is soil that remains below the freezing point of water from one year to the next, resulting in permanently frozen water particles in the soil. (Image created by the PAGE21 project)\" width=\"529\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Permafrost_infographic_page21-1024x580.png 1024w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Permafrost_infographic_page21-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Permafrost_infographic_page21.png 1449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Permafrost is soil that remains below the freezing point of water from one year to the next, resulting in permanently frozen water particles in the soil. (Image created by the PAGE21 project)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first online database on global permafrost\u00a0is\u00a0freely available to the public, serving as an early warning system for decision-makers around the world, as well as providing standardized permafrost measurements for the first time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The database, from the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost, has brought together scientists from 25 countries and who have drilled over 1000 boreholes to gain temperature data on regular expeditions throughout the Arctic and Antarctic regions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gtnp.arcticportal.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research<\/span><\/a>\u00a0gathered and published by The Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost<em>\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>September\u00a019<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first online database on global permafrost\u00a0is\u00a0freely available to the public, serving as an early warning system for decision-makers around the world, as well as providing standardized permafrost measurements for the first time. The database, from the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost, has brought together scientists from 25 countries and who have drilled over 1000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2439,215,1457],"class_list":["post-4358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-earth-science","tag-environment","tag-geology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Permafrost_infographic_page21.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-18i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4360,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4358\/revisions\/4360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}