Permafrost related measurements in the Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories, Canada, from the MOSES field campaign in September 2021

• Main Authors: Boike, J., Banaskiewicz, B., Cable, W., Erkens, E., Haberland, C., Miesner, F., Overduin, P., Ryberg, T.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2022
• Subjects: Northwest Territories; Canada; Mackenzie Delta; Tuktoyaktuk; Moses; Talik; Valley Creek; Trail Valley Creek; Creek Lake; Banks Lake; Tuktoyaktuk Island; Active layer thickness; permafrost; Thermokarst
• Online Access: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5015006

This collection contains permafrost related measurements in the Mackenzie Delta, NWT, Canada from the MOSES (Modular Observation Solutions for Earth Systems) field campaign in September 2021. The field campaign was focused on three subaquatic sites: a small thermokarst lake along the ITH just south of Trail Valley Creek, "Lake 3", an elongated lake with known methane occurence in the outer Mackenzie Delta, "Swiss Cheese Lake", and north and south of Tuktoyaktuk Island. At "Swiss Cheese Lake", we measured methane and CO2 concentrations in surface water and in the air above the lake, lake bed temperatures and detailed bathymetry. At "Lake 3" we measured active layer thickness on the lake banks, lake bed temperatures, and detailed bathymetry, as well as an ERT survey to estimate the talik depth below the lake. North and south of Tuktoyaktuk Island, we measured active layer thickness and sea bed temperatures and did an extensive ERT survey to obtain the depth of the subsea permafrost table. An additional passive seismic survey was carried out and the data is available at https://doi.org/10.5880/GIPP.202199.1.