The Marine Nature of Nuwuk Lake and Small Ponds of the Peninsula of Point Barrow Alaska

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Mohr, John L., Reish, Donald J., Barnard, J. Laurens, Lewis, Roger W., Geiger, Stephen R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1961
• Subjects: Lakes; Spits (Geography); Tundra ponds; Arctic; Barrow; Chukchi; Point Barrow; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66725

Discusses a score or more ponds, some transient, some persistent, on this narrow gravel spit, their location, nature, salinity and temperature; their biotas, marine and fresh-water, are outlined. Nuwuk Lake, the largest water body of the locality, approx. 600 ft long, max. depth 18.5 ft, is treated in some detail: its bottom, its formation by converging currents of the Bering and Chukchi Seas, ice conditions, temperature, salinity and O2-content. The biotas: euryhaline, reduced shallow-sea fauna are dealt with and the organisms collected during 1952-1960 are tabulated. Comparison is made with the few halocline lakes known in northern Russia and Scandinavia, notably Mogil'noye on Kil'din Island.