Using Multiple Sources of Knowledge to Investigate Northern Environmental Change: Regional Ecological Impacts of a Storm Surge in the Outer Mackenzie Delta, N.W.T.

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Kokelj, Steve V., Lantz, Trevor C., Solomon, Steve, Pisaric, Michael F.J., Keith, Darren, Morse, Peter, Thienpont, Joshua R., Smol, John P., Esagok, Douglas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2012
• Subjects: climate change; Inuvialuit knowledge; Mackenzie Delta; monitoring; multidisciplinary; remote sensing; salinization; storm surge; vegetation change; changement climatique; connaissances des Inuvialuit; delta du Mackenzie; surveillance; multidisciplinaire; télédétection; salinisation; onde de tempête; changement de vegetation; Arctic; Climate change; Inuvialuit; permafrost; pergélisol
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/67261

Field data, remote sensing, and Inuvialuit knowledge were synthesized to document regional ecological change in the outer Mackenzie Delta and to explore the timing, causes, and implications of this phenomenon. In September 1999, a large magnitude storm surge inundated low-lying areas of the outer Ma...