Local and regional assessments indicate that drained lake basins (DLBs) are a prominent landscape feature in lowland permafrost regions around the pan-Arctic. Despite this recognition, a pan-Arctic assessment of DLB distribution and their carbon stores has never been attempted. A coordinated pan-Arctic scale effort is needed to better understand the importance of DLBs in permafrost-regions across the pan-Arctic.
Our Action Group will focus on the development of a pan-Arctic DLB product that will fill a fundamental knowledge gap in permafrost-region landscapes with implications for global-scale climate feedbacks. A comprehensive pan-Arctic DLB dataset will be of great interest to
the scientific community and will benefit researchers working on projects from many different disciplines (e.g., hydrological modelling, engineering, and carbon cycling).
Contact: Helena Bergstedt (helena.bergstedt@gmail.com) and Benjamin Jones (bmjones3@alaska.edu)
Reports:
Publications:
Bergstedt, H., et al. (2021). Remote sensing-based statistical approach for defining drained lake basins in a continuous permafrost region, North Slope of Alaska. Remote Sensing, 13(13). DOI: 10.3390/rs13132539.
Jones, B.M., et al. (2022). Lake and drained lake basin systems in lowland permafrost regions. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 3(1), 85-98. DOI: 10.1038/s43017-021-00238-9.
