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

• Main Author: Ouellette, Danika Sophie
• Other Authors: Hayley, Jocelyn H., Priest, Jeffrey A., Moorman, Brian J., Zhou, Qi
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• 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: http://hdl.handle.net/1880/113949; https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/39266

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...