Collaborative Research: Year-round autonomous sampling of methane in Arctic lakes, Northwest Territories, Canada, 2011-2017

• Main Author: Beth Orcutt
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2017
• Subjects: methane; observatory; permafrost; Mackenzie River; osmosampler; Arctic; Canada; Inuvik; Northwest Territories; Aurora Research Institute; Climate change; Collaborative Research: Year-round autonomous sampling of methane in Arctic lakes; First Nations; Ice; Mackenzie river
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/urn:uuid:9629aaed-874a-45e2-b07e-30356795b1c4

The investigators propose to measure methane concentrations in frozen lakes continuously throughout the Arctic winter using autonomous sampling devices, to more thoroughly address the variability in the methane flux from Arctic lakes to the atmosphere. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, the release...