Geospatial Data Documenting the Expansion and Drainage of Schaeffer Lake, Northwestern Arctic Alaska, 1951-2022

• Main Author: Benjamin Jones
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2023
• Subjects: arctic lakes; lake drainage; local environmental observations; Arctic; Antarctic; Fairbanks; Baldwin; Cape Prince of Wales; Schaeffer Lake; Antarc*; permafrost; Thermokarst; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2930NW7W

On 29 June 2022, local observers reported the drainage of a 0.5 ha lake near Qikiqtaġruk (Kotzebue), Alaska that prompted this collaborative study on the life cycle of a thermokarst lake in the Arctic (Jones et al., In Review). This dataset includes the geospatial files created for the study that do...