Hydrodynamic sorting and degradation of permafrost organic matter in the nearshore zone of Herschel Island (Yukon, Canada)

• Main Authors: Jong, Dirk J., Bröder, Lisa, Tesi, Tommaso, Tanski, George, Oudenhuisen, Mickolai, Fritz, Michael, Lantuit, Hugues, Haghipour, Negar, Eglinton, T. I., Vonk, Jorien E.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Herschel Island; Yukon; Herschel; permafrost
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/53645/; https://eventmobi.com/ac2020/agenda/f92b9476-9fb3-4428-9a5e-3e2177a30b97/8e14a10e-c0d9-4f35-b203-84809eb5c41f; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.66f29a49-2acf-4c12-b2ae-a3be8a36b087

Thermal erosion of permafrost coasts delivers large quantities of organic carbon (OC) to arctic coastal waters. While deposition of permafrost OC in nearshore sediments potentially attenuates the ‘permafrost carbon feedback’, continued resuspension of sediments by waves, storms and currents potentia...