Seemann, Fabian; Baysinger, Mackenzie; Liebner, Susanne; Jenrich, Maren; Grosse, Guido; Jones, Benjamin; Treat, Claire C; Strauss, Jens (2025): A one-year-long aerobic incubation experiment assessing CO₂ and CH₄ production in thermokarst terrain on the Barrow Peninsula, Arctic Alaska [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.984832
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Published: 2025-09-12 • DOI registered: 2025-10-11
Abstract:
During an expedition in April 2022, four sediment cores were taken from thermokarst terrain on the Barrow Peninsula (Alaska). In the subsequent laboratory experiment, wet sediment samples (15 g) were incubated for 382 days under aerobic conditions at 10 °C. Along the undisturbed tundra upland core, one sample was taken from the active layer and two samples from the permafrost domain. Since a short core from the talik was retrieved from West Twin Lake, one sample was chosen from this core. The East Twin Lake core was characterized by unfrozen cryotic conditions (cryopeg), from which three samples were selected along the core. From the drained lake basin core, two samples were taken from the active layer and one from the permafrost domain. Each of the ten incubation samples was divided into three replicates, resulting in a total of 30 samples. At day 0 of the experiment, all vials were flushed with synthetic air (20 % O2, 80 % N2). CO2 and CH4 concentrations were measured three times per week during the first two weeks, two times per week from week 3 to 7, one time per week from week 8 to 15, and at regular two-week intervals thereafter until day 382 (week 56). Measurements were conducted with a gas chromatograph (7890A, Agilent Technologies, USA). If CO2 concentrations exceeded 10,000 ppm, the vial's headspace was immediately flushed with synthetic air for three minutes and re-measured afterwards. Raw data were processed following Baysinger and Dolle (2025).
Related code / software:
Baysinger, Mackenzie; Dolle, Madina Lucia (2025): Incubation Calculations (Permafrost Greenhouse Gas Lab 2025) [software]. Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.15579211
Project(s):
Permafrost Research (AWI_Perma)
Funding:
National Science Foundation (NSF), grant/award no. 1806213: Collaborative Research: Causes and Consequences of Catastrophic Thermokarst Lake Drainage in an Evolving Arctic System
National Science Foundation (NSF), grant/award no. 2336164: Collaborative Research: Thaw Below Zero - How Warming Saline Permafrost Controls Key Arctic Landscape Processes
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 71.275707 * Median Longitude: -156.464378 * South-bound Latitude: 71.273960 * West-bound Longitude: -156.496990 * North-bound Latitude: 71.277200 * East-bound Longitude: -156.443110
Date/Time Start: 2022-04-19T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2022-04-22T00:00:00
Minimum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 0.080 m * Maximum DEPTH, sediment/rock: 1.860 m
Event(s):
AK-Land_2022_NorthSlope_BRW22_DLB_001 * Latitude: 71.277200 * Longitude: -156.443110 * Date/Time: 2022-04-22T00:00:00 * Recovery: 1.42 m * Campaign: AK-Land_2022_NorthSlope (Perma-X Lagoons Alaska 2022) * Basis: AWI Arctic Land Expedition * Method/Device: SIPRE corer (SIPREC) * Comment: SIPRE corer (7.5 cm diameter)
AK-Land_2022_NorthSlope_BRW22_ETL_001 * Latitude: 71.275300 * Longitude: -156.464450 * Date/Time: 2022-04-20T00:00:00 * Recovery: 1.38 m * Location: Alaskan North Slope * Campaign: AK-Land_2022_NorthSlope (Perma-X Lagoons Alaska 2022) * Basis: AWI Arctic Land Expedition * Method/Device: Vibra-corer * Comment: Vibra corer (7.5 cm diameter; 118 cm compressed)
AK-Land_2022_NorthSlope_BRW22_UL_001 * Latitude: 71.276370 * Longitude: -156.452960 * Date/Time: 2022-04-21T00:00:00 * Recovery: 2.04 m * Campaign: AK-Land_2022_NorthSlope (Perma-X Lagoons Alaska 2022) * Basis: AWI Arctic Land Expedition * Method/Device: SIPRE corer (SIPREC) * Comment: SIPRE corer (7.5 cm diameter)
Comment:
F.S. and M.J. received funding from the German Federal Environmental Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt).
Parameter(s):
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Status:
Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
Size:
35780 data points
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