Field Activity 2014-653-FA

Identifier 2014-653-FA
Purpose Electrical resistivity profiles of permafrost and groundwater discharge. Carbon (organic matter) cycling driven by coastal erosion Microbial response to permafrost melting
Location Barter Island, AK
Summary Electrical resistivity of permafrost sections; air,soil, and water samples for analysis of Rn, methane, dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) isotopic composition, total organic carbon (TOC); and microbiological studies of 16S RNS metagenomics.
Info derived field data for permafrost location, groundwater input, carbon cycling, and microbial response to Arctic climate change
Comments Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2014-624-fa
Projects
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Kaktovik, AK 2014-09-01
End Fairbanks, AK 2014-09-11
Days in the field 10
Bounds
West -143.759
East -143.56808811
North 70.1375649
South 70.10137424

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Peter W SwarzenskiBruce M RichmondThomas D Lorenson
Crew members
Thomas D Lorenson
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Thomas D Lorenson
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Mark Waldrop, USGS Volcanoes , AK

Data types and categories

Data category: Biological Field Study, Electro-Magnetic, Geochemical, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Other
Data type: Experiments (biological), Surveys (biological), Resistivity, Surveys (geochemical), Photo, Video, Navigation, Biology, Chemistry, Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Supersting R8 Resistivity (no data reported)
Camera-video Photo, Video (no data reported)
Camera-still Photo (no data reported)
Handheld GPS Navigation (no data reported)
Hand-grab sample Biology, Chemistry, Geology (no data reported)
Push corer Surveys (geochemical), Surveys (biological), Biology, Geology (no data reported)
water bottle Surveys (biological), Biology, Chemistry (no data reported)
Other Unknown, Surveys (geochemical), Experiments (geochemical) (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity