Source Drinking Water Challenges Resulting from Changes To an Arctic Tundra Lake

• Main Authors: Michael Brubaker, Alicia Rolin, Jacob Bell, John Warren
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Point Hope; Climate change; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.489.203; http://www.anthc.org/chs/ces/climate/upload/CCH-Bulletin-No-02-edited-07-23.pdf

This paper reports on a special concern identified in Point Hope, Alaska during a recent Climate Change Assessment: disruption of drinking water treatment caused by temperature driven increases in organic material in an Arctic tundra lake. Blooms of organic material have in the past been observed in...