Acknowledgements

Financial support by the following organizations is highly appreciated:

• International Arctic Science Committee (IASC)

• International Permafrost Association (IPA)

• Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT)

• Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)

• National Science Foundation: Study of the Northern Alaska Coastal System (SNACS)

• INTAS (International Association for the promotion of co-operation with scientists from the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union): project numbers INTAS Open Call 2001-2329 and INTAS Open Call 2001-2332

• INTAS (International Association for the promotion of co-operation with scientists from the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union): YS Postdoctoral Fellowship, project number 03-55-2506

• International Arctic Research Center (IARC): grant “Analysis of Coastal Meteorological and Oceanographic Forcing in the Arctic Basin”

• German Ministry for Education and Research / Russian Ministry for Research and Technology: grant: “Permafrost Dynamics in the Laptev Sea”