ARCSS176 Paleoenvironment, Geomorphic Processes, and Carbon Stocks of Drained Thaw-lake Basins in the Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska, USA, 2002-2005 Wendy R. Eisner Paleoenvironment, Geomorphic Processes, and Carbon Stocks of Drained Thaw-lake Basins in the Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska, USA, 2002-2005 2007-05-20 Boulder, Colorado USA NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center http://nsidc.org/data/arcss176.html Investigator Wendy R. Eisner wendy.eisner@uc.edu 1 513 556-3926 1 513 556-3370

University of Cincinnati

Department of Geography

Department of Geography, ML 131

University of Cincinnati

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University of Wisconsin

Soil Science Department

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Madison WI 53706-1299 USA Investigator Kenneth M. Hinkel Ken_Hinkel@compuserve.com 1 513 556-3421

University of Cincinnati

Department of Geography

ML131

Cincinnati OH 45221-0131 USA Investigator Richard Beck

University of Cincinnati

Department of Geography

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National Snow and Ice Data Center

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University of Colorado

Boulder CO 80309-0449 USA EARTH SCIENCE Land Surface Soils Soil Bulk Density EARTH SCIENCE Land Surface Soils Soil Depth EARTH SCIENCE Oceans Ocean Chemistry Organic Carbon Total Organic Carbon EARTH SCIENCE Paleoclimate Land Records Pollen EARTH SCIENCE Paleoclimate Land Records Radiocarbon Radiocarbon Dates EARTH SCIENCE Paleoclimate Ocean/Lake Records Microfossils Biota Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere Alaska ARCSS176 Arctic Coastal Plain Coastal Alaska Cryopedology Drained thaw-lake basin Ecology Geomorphology microfossils OPP-0240338 Organic Carbon Pollen Radiocarbon Soil Bulk Density Soil Organic Carbon Content AMS ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETERS CARBON ANALYZERS ETM+ Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus GPS Global Positioning System GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS LANDSAT-7 SATELLITES 2002-04-01 2005-04-30 complete 70.9055 72.2153 -157.1417 -155.5473 CONTINENT NORTH AMERICA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC REGION ARCTIC GEOGRAPHIC REGION NORTHERN HEMISPHERE 10 cm English ARCSS/ADCC NSIDC_ARCSS NSIDC Arctic System Science Data Coordination Center http://nsidc.org/arcss/ Data Center Contact NSIDC ARCSS User Services nsidc@nsidc.org 1 303 492-6199 1 303 492-2468

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University of Colorado

Boulder CO 80309-0449 USA FTP 122 KB Microsoft Word FTP 18.9 MB JPEG FTP 2.90 MB Microsoft Excel FTP 218 MB TIFF FTP 34.5 MB ESRI Shapefiles Beck, R., W. R. Eisner, K. M. Hinkel, H. Pesanti, B. Ellis, E. Beiswenger, W. Parker, M. Treadwell, S. Smith, L. Drogh, K. G. Hansen and V. Peskov. 2005. Nutarniq: Uniting the Arctic community with a wireless arctic network for circumpolar communications. Polar Geography 29(1):43. Bockheim, J. G., K. M. Hinkel, W. R. Eisner, and X. Y. Dai. 2004. Carbon pools and accumulation rates in an age-series of soils in drained thaw-lake basins, arctic Alaska. Soil Science Society of America Journal 68:697. Eisner, W. R., J. G. Bockheim, K. M. Hinkel, T. A. Brown, F. E. Nelson, K. M. Peterson, and B. M. Jones. 2005. Paleoenvironmental analyses of an organic deposit from an erosional landscape remnant, Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology 217:187. Eisner, W. R., K. M. Hinkel, J. G. Bockheim, and F. E. Nelson. 2003. Late-Quaternary paleoenvironmental record from a palsa-scale frost mound in arctic Alaska. Eighth International Conference on Permafrost, Zurich, 21-25 July 2003. Zurich, Switzerland. (Phillips, M., S. M. Springman, and L. U. Arenson, eds.), p. 229. Frohn, R. C., K. M. Hinkel, and W. R. Eisner. 2005. Satellite remote sensing classification of thaw lakes and drained thaw lake basins on the North Slope of Alaska. Remote Sensing of the Environment 97:116. Hinkel, K. M., R. C. Frohn, F. E. Nelson, W. R. Eisner, R. A. Beck, and J. G. Bockheim. 2005. Morphometric and spatial analysis of thaw lakes and drained thaw lake basins in the western Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 16(4):327. Hinkel, K. M., W. R. Eisner, J. G. Bockheim, F. E. Nelson, K. M. Peterson, and X. Y. Dai. 2003. Spatial extent, age, and carbon stocks in drained thaw lake basins on the Barrow Peninsula, Alaska. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 35:291.

These data are from a study of the origin and associated geomorphological, ecological, and pedological processes of thaw-lake basins of the Arctic Coastal Plain, Alaska. The research utilized high-resolution multispectral satellite data, ground-penetrating radar, and extensive coring to estimate the amount of carbon sequestered in the drained basins. Investigators used radiometric dating, microfossil analysis, and soil development to determine whether carbon accumulation rates respond to regional changes in climate, or if they are influenced by local rates of plant succession. Investigators reported depths, adjusted depths, radiocarbon dates, calibrated radiocarbon dates, pollen, microfossils, soil bulk density, total organic carbon (TOC), and other descriptive statistics from the spring and summer seasons of April 2002 through April 2005. Data are in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, TIFF, JPEG, and ArcView Shapefile formats, available via FTP.

VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/parcs/atlas/beringia/fungus.html Microfossil Analysis VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE http://www.geography.uc.edu/~kenhinke/dtlb/ Thaw Lakes of Northern Alaska CEOS IDN DIF 9.7 2007-05-20 2012-09-13 Updated originating data center.