Climate Change and the Fate of Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Mackenzie Delta, NWT

• Main Author: Weeks, Gayla
• Other Authors: Tank, Suzanne
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Environmental science; Arctic; Mackenzie Delta; Dissolved organic carbon; DOC; Photochemical degradation; Biological degradation; BDOC; Mackenzie River; Lakes; Biogeochemistry; Arctic Ocean; Climate change; Mackenzie river
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/32800

Circumpolar river deltas are a potential hotspot for the biogeochemical cycling of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) as it is leached from the surrounding landscape into deltaic river channels and eventually discharged to the near shore Arctic Ocean. The Mackenzie Delta, an intricate network of over 45...