This section gathers materials produced and shared within the PermaCOST Action. Here you can find presentations, documents and training materials from our events, including the lectures given at the first PermaCOST PhD Training School in Trafoi (Italy, 2026). The materials are open to researchers, students and practitioners working on permafrost and periglacial environments, and new content will be added as the Action moves forward.
Training school 2026
Downloadable material from the 2026 Training School
PermaCOST: New International Research Network for Coordinated and Standardised Monitoring of Permafrost Response to Climate Change
Line Rouyet, Coline Mollaret, Filip Hrbacek, Cécile Pellet, Ylva Sjoberg, Flavius Sirbu, Mohammad Farzamian, Jan Blöthe, Francesco Brardinoni, Andreas Kellerer-Pirklbauer, Manja Zebre, Bernd Etzelmüller, Alina Milceva
RGIK Introduction (short version for PermaCOST Training School)
Line Rouyet, Francesco Brardinoni, Yan Hu (on behalf of the RGIK ExCom)
Introduction to RGIK: Rock Glacier Inventories and Rock Glacier Detection
Francesco Brardinoni, Yan Hu, Line Rouyet, Flavius Sîrbu
RGIK Inventorying: Geomorphological Approach
Yan Hu, Line Rouyet, Francesco Brardinoni
RGIK RoGI Kinematic Approach: InSAR-based Moving Area Detection, Delineation and Velocity Characterisation
Line Rouyet, Yan Hu, Francesco Brardinoni
RGIK Inventorying: Upslope Connection and Additional Attributes
Yan Hu, Line Rouyet, Francesco Brardinoni
The Use of UAVs for Monitoring Rock Glaciers
Sebastián Vivero, János Mészáros
Introduction to Geophysical Methods for Soil Prospecting, with a Focus on Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) for Characterizing Periglacial Terrain
Jacopo Boaga
Rock Glacier Dynamics in Marginal Permafrost: Retezat Mountains, Southern Carpathians
Flavius Sîrbu
An Altitudinal Transition in Rock Glacier Dynamics Detected through Integration of Geomorphologic Mapping and InSAR-based Kinematic Information
Francesco Brardinoni, Thomas Echelard, Volkmar Mair, Nina Jones, Tazio Strozzi