Geo.X Grow Your Idea workshop on: "Redox-sensitive elements as drivers of carbon release from high-latitude landscapes"

Geo.X Grow Your Idea Workshop on “Redox-sensitive elements as drivers of carbon release from high-latitude landscapes”

Across the Arctic landscape, amplified climate change is driving permafrost thaw and unlocking a vast stock of carbon - a potential hidden time bomb for Earth’s atmosphere. Redox sensitive elements play a crucial role in controlling the source, processing and fate of organic and inorganic carbon in soil systems, but yet they remain largely absent from process-based models that project future carbon emissions from permafrost regions.  

The aim of this two-day workshop is to bring together early-career and established researchers to share insights and cultivate new ideas in a friendly, science-driven environment. Our goal is to advance the integration of redox processes into our understanding of carbon dynamics in a rapidly changing Arctic. Our workshop targets researchers with interest and expertise in hydrological, microbial, organic, inorganic or and space-for-time methods, utilizing field work-, computational- or laboratory-based approaches. 

The workshop will take place at GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung on the 23^rd and 24^th April 2026. The workshop is free of cost. Catering and a conference dinner are provided. Child care (free of cost) can be provided with advance notice. 

We hope to build a new network of scientists united by their drive to understand the generation and movement of carbon (in all its forms) across Arctic surface reservoirs as a function of redox processes, driven by hydrology, biogeochemistry, biome, time and location. Together we can build a new understanding of the role of redox sensitive elements in Arctic and boreal terrestrial and aquatic environments. 

To attend the workshop and networking event we invite you to fill the registration form below by the 13^th April. In person participants are limited, therefore priority will be given to those who are willing to present their research/methods/ideas to help move the science forward. We are limited to 30 in-person attendees with consideration also given to researchers who would be unable to attend in person and present online. 

Current themes to contribute to include:

1. Laboratory: What can experimental work tell us about redox cycling and carbon fate?

2. Fieldwork: What can fieldwork tell us about redox cycling and carbon fate?

3. Space-for-time: what can lower latitude studies tell us about redox cycling and carbon fate in the Arctic?

4. Upscaling and modelling: How can we input the role of redox processes on carbon fate into process-based, statistical and machine learning approaches?

5. Where are the elements coming from? How does weathering modulate the supply of redox sensitive elements to Arctic soils?

6. What role does water play? How does hydrology modulate redox processes and carbon fate?

7. What about biology? How do microbes modulate how redox processes control carbon fate?

8. What happens in aquatic bodies? How do redox processes modulate carbon fate along the soil to ocean continuum?

Please register your interest by the 13^th April using this link: https://forms.gle/NmN8tmjRjqUMpSqz6

Should you have any questions please reach out to

Emily Stevenson, Jeffrey Perez or Carolina Voigt