Dr. Frans-Jan Parmentier is based at the Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science at Lund University, Sweden and the Arctic Research Centre at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Dr. Parmentier (1978) has a vast experience in Arctic research, having done fieldwork in Northeast Siberia, Greenland, Alaska and Spitsbergen. Through his broad circumpolar field experience he has obtained a comprehensive understanding of the wide diversity exhibited by Arctic ecosystems, and the vast consequences that climate change may have on the release of carbon from permafrost soils to the atmosphere. Ever since obtaining his PhD from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam his research has been focused on the impact that sea ice decline and changes in snow cover have on Arctic ecosystems. He is a coordinating author on the just released technical report ‘AMAP Assessment 2015: Methane as an Arctic climate
forcer’ and is currently involved as a co-author on two chapters of the forthcoming update of the AMAP assessment ‘Arctic Carbon Cycling - Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA)’. Dr. Parmentier enjoys sharing the experiences he has had in the Arctic with others and wants to convey the consequences of climate change in the Arctic to the rest of the world.
