Integrating local environmental observations and remote sensing to better understand the life cycle of a thermokarst lake in Arctic Alaska

• Published in: Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research
• Main Authors: Benjamin M. Jones, Susan Schaeffer Tessier, Tim Tessier, Michael Brubaker, Mike Brook, Jackie Schaeffer, Melissa K. Ward Jones, Guido Grosse, Ingmar Nitze, Tabea Rettelbach, Sebastian Zavoico, Jason A. Clark, Ken D. Tape
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2023
• Subjects: Arctic; lakes; lake drainage; local observations; permafrost; thermokarst; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Ecology; QH540-549.5; Antarctic and Alpine Research; Ice; Thermokarst; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2023.2195518; https://doaj.org/article/2cfa92d5c4c74156a23735239ba3ef34

ABSTRACTOn 29 June 2022, local observers reported the drainage of a 0.5 ha lake near Qikiqtaġruk (Kotzebue), Alaska, that prompted this collaborative study on the life cycle of a thermokarst lake in the Arctic. Prior to its drainage, the lake expanded from 0.13 ha in 1951 to 0.54 ha in 2021 at later...