Carbon Cycling in a Glacier Ice Meltwater Impacted Freshwater System of the Canadian High Arctic: Biogeochemical Processes of the Lake Hazen Watershed

• Main Author: Dainard, Paul
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Waterloo 2022
• Subjects: carbon; glacier ice meltwater; high Arctic; Canadian North; dissolved organic carbon; chemical composition; stable carbon isotopes; radiocarbon isotopes; dissolved inorganic carbon; carbonate system; water isotopes; climate change; Lake Hazen; mineral weathering; tritium; fractionation; Arctic; Nunavut; Ellesmere Island; black carbon; Climate change; Quttinirpaaq National Park
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/18118

Accelerated glacier ice mass loss and intensified meltwater fluxes are among principal vectors of change affecting northern latitudes in a warming climate. Aquatic systems impacted by glacier ice meltwater are vulnerable to hydrologic shifts in flow conditions that may render consequences to sources...