Marine electrical resistivity data parallel to the southern coastline of the Bykovsky Peninsula, Siberia

• Main Authors: Angelopoulos, Michael, Overduin, Pier Paul, Jenrich, Maren, Nitze, Ingmar, Günther, Frank, Strauss, Jens, Westermann, Sebastian, Schirrmeister, Lutz, Kholodov, Alexander L, Krautblatter, Michael, Grigoriev, Mikhail N, Grosse, Guido
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2021
• Subjects: Alas; Bykovsky; electrical resistivity; Lena Delta; Near surface geophysics; Submarine Permafrost; subsea permafrost; talik; Thermokarst Lagoon; CATS - The Changing Arctic Transpolar System CATS; NUNATARYUK, Permafrost thaw and the changing Arctic coast, science for socioeconomic adaptation NUNATARYUK; Rapid Permafrost Thaw in a Warming Arctic and Impacts on the Soil Organic Carbon Pool PETA-CARB; Arctic; Peta; Talik; Ice; lena delta; permafrost; Thermokarst; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.934169; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.934169

In July 2017, we collected apparent resistivity data (ohm-m) in a sub-aquatic permafrost environment on the southern coastline of the Bykovsky Peninsula in northeast Siberia. The project goal was to determine the depth to the top of frozen sediment for multiple submerged landscapes. The submerged landscapes included ice-rich Yedoma permafrost, permafrost that had undergone prior thermokarst (Alases), and a former lagoon (i.e. offshore at the lagoon's coastline positions in earlier years). The data was collected with an IRIS Syscal Pro Deep Marine resistivity system that was equipped with a GPS and an echo-sounder to record water depths. The geoelectric cable had an electrode separation of 10 m and the electrodes were arranged in a reciprocal Wenner Schlumberger array. The offset between the first electrode and the boat was approximately 10 m.