Downstream Evolution of Particulate Organic Matter Composition From Permafrost Thaw Slumps

Kirsi H. Keskitalo*, Lisa Bröder, Sarah Shakil, Scott Zolkos, Suzanne E. Tank, Bart E. van Dongen, Tommaso Tesi, Negar Haghipour, Timothy I. Eglinton, Steven V. Kokelj, Jorien E. Vonk

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Original languageEnglish
Article number642675
Pages (from-to)1-21
Number of pages21
JournalFrontiers in Earth Science
Volume9
Issue numberMarch
Early online date29 Mar 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2021

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Funding Information:
This study was funded with a European Research Council Starting Grant to JV (THAWSOME #676982). ST, SS, and SZ received funds from the Campus Alberta Innovates Program, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC, #444873 and #430696), and the Polar Continental Shelf Program (#617-17).

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© Copyright © 2021 Keskitalo, Bröder, Shakil, Zolkos, Tank, van Dongen, Tesi, Haghipour, Eglinton, Kokelj and Vonk.

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Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

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We would like to thank the staff of the Aurora Research Institute (ARI) for their field support and providing laboratory facilities, Erin MacDonald and Rosemin Nathoo for their help in the field as well as Georgina Neyando, Andrew Koe, and Dempster Colin for wildlife monitoring, Jorien Schoorl-Smits for the laboratory analyses at the University of Amsterdam, Charlotte van der Nagel for her contribution to the laboratory work at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Laboratory for Ion Beam Physics at ETH Z?rich for AMS support. We are also grateful to Hugues Lantuit, George Tanski, and Dirk Jong for their support in the field. We would also like to acknowledge that this study was conducted within the Gwich?in Settlement region. This publication is related to NWT Geological Survey Contribution #0137. Finally, we would also like to thank the editor EJ and the two reviewers whose comments helped to improve this manuscript. Funding. This study was funded with a European Research Council Starting Grant to JV (THAWSOME #676982). ST, SS, and SZ received funds from the Campus Alberta Innovates Program, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC, #444873 and #430696), and the Polar Continental Shelf Program (#617-17).

FundersFunder number
Campus Alberta Innovates Program
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme676982
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada444873, 430696, 617-17

    Keywords

    • Arctic
    • organic carbon
    • climate
    • degradation
    • lipid biomarkers
    • Peel Plateau
    • permafrost
    • pyrolysis-GCMS

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