Understanding coastal dynamics along a permafrost affected coastline in northwestern Alaska, USA

• Main Authors: Farquharson, Louise M., Mann, Daniel H., Grosse, Guido, Jones, Benjamin, Swanson, David, Romanovsky, V. E.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Lisbon and University of Evora 2014
• Subjects: Arctic; Barrier Islands; Chukchi Sea; Beaufort Sea; Chukchi; Climate change; Ice; permafrost; Sea ice; Seward Peninsula; Thermokarst; wedge*; Alaska
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/35916/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.43832

Some of the highest coastal erosion rates in the world are now occurring along non-bedrock, permafrost affected coastlines in the Arctic. Understanding how vulnerable Arctic coastlines are to current and future climate change is critical for resource management, subsistence hunting and gathering, an...