AKA: none
Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Climate Change Impacts to the U.S. Pacific and Arctic Coasts (ZP00F00)
Principal Investigator(s): Cordell Johnson, Bruce Richmond
Affiliate Investigator(s): Slawek Tulaczyk, UC Santa Cruz
Information Specialist(s): Cordell Johnson
Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Temperature, Electro-Magnetic: Ground Penetrating Radar, Electro-Magnetic: Resistivity, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: Profiles, Sampling: Geology
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Instal theristor arrays, time lapse cameras, collect bluff samples, GPR and ERT transects
Vehicle(s): None
Start Port/Location: Santa Cruz, CA
End Port/Location: Kaktovik, AK
Start Date: 2016-05-20
End Date: 2016-09-30
Equipment Used: Sensors - temperature, drillcore, electricalresistivity, groundpenetratingradar, video, camera, topographic profiling, GPS
Information to be Derived: Temperatureof permafrost, timelapse imagery coastal change, subsurface geology
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: sample locations submitted to FAD 11/15/2016
Staff: Cordell Johnson, Other
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: The permafrost samples we collected during our May sampling were collected using a gas powered hammer drill with 1.5" auger and 1.25" core drill attachments. We sampled at 0.5m increments to a depth of 3-8 meters depending on the site.
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity AK 2015-624-FA
Field work in 2 phases, late May 2016, Late Sept 2016
Images from 2016 and 2017 archived under this FAN.
Location:
Coastal bluffs of Barter Island N-slope Alaska
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 70.1348118 | South: 70.1252243 | West: -143.74 | East: -143.58416138 |
Platform(s):
 Airplane |
Foley, N., Tulaczyk, S., Oberle, F.K.J., Johnson, C.D., Swarzenski, P., Richmond, B.M., Gibbs, A., Erikson, L., Lorenson, T., 2026, Ground temperature data of Barter Island bluffs collected in 2016: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/data-releases/datarelease/10.5066-P13OM8JN/.
Gibbs, A.E., Nolan, M., and Snyder, A.G., 2019, Orthophotomosaics, elevation point clouds, digital surface elevation models and supporting data from the north coast of Barter Island, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey data release.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sensors - temperature | --- | Temperature | Ground temperature data of Barter Island bluffs collected in 2016 (Thermistor strings with sensors spaced at 25-centimeter intervals were installed in three boreholes extending from the ground surface to depths of up to 4.25 meters at Barter Island, Alaska. The sites were located near the bluff edge overlooking the open Beaufort Sea coast. Temperature measurements were programmed to be collected hourly from late spring through early fall in 2016 (May 31 to September 15). Because the solar- and battery-powered instrument occasionally experienced limited power availability, the dataset contains some gaps.) |
| drillcore | --- | Geology | |
| electricalresistivity | --- | Resistivity | |
| groundpenetratingradar | --- | Ground Penetrating Radar Navigation | |
| video | --- | Video | |
| camera | --- | Photo | |
| topographic profiling | --- | Profiles Transects | |
| GPS | --- | Navigation |
