Effective Monitoring of Permafrost Coast Erosion: Wide-scale Storm Impacts on Outer Islands in the Mackenzie Delta Area

• Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
• Main Authors: Michael Lim, Dustin Whalen, Paul J. Mann, Paul Fraser, Heather Bay Berry, Charlotte Irish, Kendyce Cockney, John Woodward
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
• Subjects: arctic storms; permafrost coasts; volumetric erosion monitoring; photogrammetric surveys; regional scale impacts; arctic community resilience; Science; Q; Arctic; Mackenzie Delta; Beaufort Sea; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.561322; https://doaj.org/article/c3984d01160b48b29a635b838672e8a8

Permafrost coasts are extensive in scale and complex in nature, resulting in particular challenges for understanding how they respond to both long-term shifts in climate and short-term extreme weather events. Taking examples from the Canadian Beaufort Sea coastline characterized by extensive areas o...