Principal Investigator:Lesack, Lance Licensed Year(s):20242023
2022
Summary:
This licence has been issued for the scientific research application No.5320.
The objectives of this project are to improve the understanding of methane cycling in Mackenzie Delta lakes and how it is affected by the changing water levels and to decipher the impact of water level changes on the ability of the Mackenzie Delta to affect riverine carbon and nutrient flow to the ocean.
Improve un...
Principal Investigator:Lesack, Lance Licensed Year(s):201720162015
2014
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The objectives of this research project are to: 1) Improve our understanding of microbial carbon-processing in Mackenzie Delta lakes and how it is affected by the changing water levels; and 2) Decipher the impact of water level changes on the ability of the Mackenzie Delta to affect riverine nutrient flow to the ocean.
Specific activities for the coming field season include the following:
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Principal Investigator:Lesack, Lance Licensed Year(s):2008
2007
Summary:
The Arctic Ocean receives much higher river inflows than other ocean basins and this has major implications for sea-ice formation, for nutrient supply to the base of aquatic marine foodwebs, and for optical properties of ice-free areas and ice-pack margins via fluxes of dissolved organic matter and riverine particles. The Beaufort Shelf is strongly influenced by Mackenzie River outflows. However, ...