Thermal and Mechanical Modeling of Coastal Erosion Processes on Tuktoyaktuk Island, Northwest Territories ...

• Main Author: Ouellette, Danika Sophie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Schulich School of Engineering 2021
• Subjects: Arctic; Permafrost; Coastal Erosion; Numerical Modeling; Engineering > Environmental; Engineering > Marine and Ocean; Geotechnology; Northwest Territories; Tuktoyaktuk; Tuktoyaktuk Island; Beaufort Sea; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/39266; https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/113949

Arctic coasts are particularly vulnerable to rapid and extreme erosion due to the presence of ice-rich permafrost sediment, with erosion rates varying anywhere from 1 to 20 m/yr in the region. Erosion is limited to the open-water season such that the factors controlling rates of erosion are warmer a...