Triple C - Permafrost Region Drained Lake Basins

Understanding causes and consequences of catastrophic permafrost region lake drainage in an evolving arctic system

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Journal Publications (*student-led publication)

Arp, C. D., B. M. Jones, K. M. Hinkel, D. L. Kane, M. S. Whitman, R. Kemnitz. In Press. Recurring outburst floods from drained lakes: an emerging arctic hazard . Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

Fuchs, M., Lenz, J., Jock, S., Nitze, I., Jones, B. M., Strauss, J., et al. 2019. Organic Carbon and Nitrogen Stocks along a Thermokarst Lake Sequence in Arctic Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004591

Nitze, I., Grosse, G., Jones, B. M., Romanovsky, V. E., and Boike, J., 2018. Remote sensing quantifies widespread abundance of permafrost region disturbances across the Arctic and Subarctic. Nature Communications, 9(1): 5423.

Jones, B.M. and C. D. Arp. 2015. Observing a catastrophic thermokarst lake drainage in northern Alaska. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes 26(2): 119-128. DOI: 10.1002/ppp.1842

 

Conference Presentations

Arp, C. D. 2018. Consequences of Catastrophic Lake Drainage: Will Ghost Lakes Increasingly Haunt the New Arctic during Snowmelt? Water and Environmental Research Center Seminar, Fairbanks, AK