GEO 605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Permafrost, Nostoc, Natural Sciences And Engineering Research Council
10 Apr 2017
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Little bit of cape bounty discussed today: basically, review of the whole course. Northern career report: rubric is posted, do(cid:374)"t just list the jo(cid:271)s, how can that job be different in a northern context. 3 different sites of research: cape bounty on melville island, pond inlet and baker lake, diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)e i(cid:374) (cid:449)o(cid:396)k that"s (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g do(cid:374)e i(cid:374) these a(cid:396)eas. Drastic landscape changes: small areas of erosion and small areas of active layer detachment. If you were a fish, when that water was clear, you could breathe easily. Increase turbidity means increase in smoke so you cant breathe in it: changes how fish and organisms in the lake live, things are changing. Retrogressive thaw slumps: everything that is changing is between 10 x 10 kms where the prof and his research go, because of added moisture and the sediment and soil, we started to have an active layer detachment. Not sure yet: climate is changing and a lot in the arctic.
