Permafrost slows Arctic riverbank erosion

EC Geyman, MM Douglas, JP Avouac, MP Lamb - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The rate of river migration affects the stability of Arctic infrastructure and communities, and
regulates the fluxes of carbon,, nutrients and sediment, to the oceans. However, predicting …

Arctic permafrost thawing enhances sulfide oxidation

PC Kemeny, GK Li, M Douglas… - Global …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Permafrost degradation is altering biogeochemical processes throughout the Arctic. Thaw‐
induced changes in organic matter transformations and mineral weathering reactions are …

Permafrost formation in a meandering river floodplain

MM Douglas, GK Li, AJ West, Y Ke, JC Rowland… - AGU …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Permafrost influences 25% of land in the Northern Hemisphere, where it stabilizes the
ground beneath communities and infrastructure and sequesters carbon. However, the …

Mercury stocks in discontinuous permafrost and their mobilization by river migration in the Yukon River Basin

MI Smith, Y Ke, EC Geyman, JN Reahl… - Environmental …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Rapid warming in the Arctic threatens to destabilize mercury (Hg) deposits contained within
soils in permafrost regions. Yet current estimates of the amount of Hg in permafrost vary by …

Remote sensing of multitemporal functional lake‐to‐channel connectivity and implications for water movement through the Mackenzie River Delta, Canada

W Dolan, TM Pavelsky… - Water Resources Research, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Mackenzie River Delta in Canada is a mediator of hydrological transport
between the expansive Mackenzie River watershed and the Beaufort Sea. Within the delta …

Accelerated river meander migration on the Tibetan Plateau caused by permafrost thaw

A Sha, D Li, D Walling, Y Zhao, S Tian… - Geophysical …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
The migration of rivers in permafrost landscapes has critical implications for riverine
infrastructure, ecosystem stability, and carbon cycling, yet its magnitude and underlying …

A model for thaw and erosion of permafrost riverbanks

MM Douglas, MP Lamb - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
How will bank erosion rates in Arctic rivers respond to a warming climate? Existing physical
models predict that bank erosion rates should increase with water temperature as …

Using ground‐penetrating radar to infer ice wedge characteristics proximal to water tracks

RH Harris, SG Evans, ST Marshall… - Journal of …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Massive ground ice in Arctic regions underlain using continuous permafrost influences
hydrologic processes, leading to ground subsidence and the release of carbon dioxide and …

Space‐Time Inconsistencies in the Dynamics of Water Coverage: Tracking Walking Floods

P Torre Zaffaroni, J Houspanossian… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Floods in ideal landscapes follow a coherent pattern where single water‐covered areas
expand and afterward recede following the inverse sequence, but deviate in real …

Suspended sediment transport and storage in Arctic deltas

C Hines, A Piliouras - Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
River fluxes to the Arctic Ocean impact sea ice extent, nutrient availability, and coastal
ecosystems. Arctic river deltas modulate fluxes of water, sediment, and nutrients reaching …