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Size and bathymetry of Greiner Lake and other large lakes in its watershed, Nunavut

Milla Rautio1,2,3, Juliette Lapeyre1,4, Paola Ayala Borda1,2,3, Guillaume Grosbois1,3,5, Les N. Harris6, Brendan K. Malley6, Pénélope Blackburn-Desbiens1,2,3, Jean-Sebastien Moore7.
1Département des sciences fondamentales, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada
2Centre d’Études Nordiques, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
3Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Limnologie (GRIL), Montréal, Quebec, Canada
4Institut de Développement Durable des Premières Nations du Québec et du Labrador, Wendake, Québec, Canada
5Institut de Recherche sur les forêts, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Amos, Quebec, Canada
6Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Arctic and Aquatic Research Division, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
7Institut de biologie Intégrative et des systèmes and Département de biologie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

Abstract

Most of the world’s lakes are in the Arctic, yet very little is known about these aquatic environments. We present here the size and depth data for five large lakes in the Greiner lake watershed near Cambridge Bay, southern Victoria Island, Nunavut. Using satellite imagery, a watershed digital surface model (WDSM) was generated to estimate surface area of Greiner lake, First lake, Second lake, Inuhuktok and Nakyulik. Bathymetry for each lake was generated using depth measures that were taken as point measures and a Biosonics or Humminbird echo sounder.

Data citation

Rautio, M., Lapeyre, J., Ayala Borda, P., Grosbois, G., Harris, L.N., Malley, B.K., Blackburn-Desbiens,P., Moore, J.S. 2022. Size and bathymetry of Greiner Lake and other large lakes in its watershed, Nunavut, v. 1.0. Nordicana D106, doi: 10.5885/45795CE-9776DFA4E6364D05.

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Key references

  • Grosbois G, Power M, Evans M, Koehler G, and Rautio M. 2022. Content, composition and transfer of polyunsaturated fatty acids in an Arctic lake food web. Ecosphere 13(1)
    DOI: doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3881
  • Kivilä H, Rantala MV, Antoniades D, Luoto TP, Nevalainen L, and Rautio M. 2022. Sea level rise may contribute to the Arctic greening of coastal water bodies, implications from ontogeny of Greiner Lake, Nunavut. CATENA 105969
    DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2021.105969
  • Potvin M, Rautio M, and Lovejoy C. 2022. Freshwater microbial eukaryotic core communities, open water and under ice specialists in southern Victoria Island lakes (Ekaluktutiak, Nunavut, Canada). Frontiers in Microbiology 12: 786094
    DOI: doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.786094
  • Ayala-Borda P, Lovejoy C, Power M, and Rautio M. 2021. Evidence of eutrophication in Arctic lakes.
    DOI: doi.org/10.1139/as-2020-0033.
  • Imbeau E, Vincent WF, Wauthy M, Cusson M, and Rautio M. 2021. Hidden stores of organic matter in northern lake ice: Selective retention of terrestrial particles, phytoplankton and labile carbon. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences .
    DOI: 10.1029/2020JG006233

Acknowledgements

This research is a contribution to the projects “Functional, structural and biodiversity studies of Arctic freshwater watersheds: validating protocols for monitoring and cumulative impacts assessment” and, “Health of Arctic freshwater ecosystems”, and “Changing nutrients and food web health in northern lakes and rivers”, supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Polar Knowledge Canada and ArcticNet, with logistic support from the Polar Continental Shelf Program (PCSP).

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Measurement sites

Site Latitude Longitude Altitude (m)
Greiner Lake 69.191 -104.927 12.24 More info
Second Lake 69.175 -104.63 16.05 More info
Inuhuktok 69.237 -104.757 19.85 More info
First Lake 69.203 -104.74 15.07 More info
Nakyulik 69.2898 -104.7341 26 More info

Supplementary material

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Data available for download are in ZIP format. Please properly cite the data when using it.

Depth measures - First lake Get file
File: ds_000605243.zip Size: 3.01 KB
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First Lake
Data
Depth (m) 01/2018 – 01/2019
Depth measures - Second lake Get file
File: ds_000605257.zip Size: 2.47 KB
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Second Lake
Data
Depth (m) 01/2018 – 01/2019
Depth measures - Greiner lake Get file
File: ds_000605261.zip Size: 2.32 KB
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Greiner Lake
Data
Depth (m) 01/2018 – 01/2019
Depth measures - First lake Get file
File: ds_000605269.zip Size: 3.07 KB
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First Lake
Data
Depth (m) 01/2018 – 01/2019
Depth measures - Second lake Get file
File: ds_000605273.zip Size: 3.23 KB
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Second Lake
Data
Depth (m) 01/2018 – 01/2019
Depth measures - Greiner lake Get file
File: ds_000605277.zip Size: 2.87 KB
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Greiner Lake
Data
Depth (m) 01/2018 – 01/2019
Depth measures - Inuhuktok Get file
File: ds_000605573.zip Size: 4.57 KB
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Inuhuktok
Data
Depth (m) 01/2018 – 01/2019
Depth measures - Inuhuktok Get file
File: ds_000605577.zip Size: 4.57 KB
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Inuhuktok
Data
Depth (m) 01/2018 – 01/2019
Depth measures - Nakyulik Get file
File: ds_000605581.zip Size: 1.82 KB
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Nakyulik
Data
Depth (m) 01/2018 – 01/2019
Depth measures - Nakyulik Get file
File: ds_000605585.zip Size: 742 B
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Nakyulik
Data
Depth (m) 01/2018 – 01/2019
Interpolated isobaths - First lake Get file
File: ds_000605832.zip Size: 1.18 MB
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First Lake
Data
Bathymetric interpolation 01/2018 – 01/2019
Interpolated isobaths - Second lake Get file
File: ds_000605836.zip Size: 1.25 MB
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Second Lake
Data
Bathymetric interpolation 01/2018 – 01/2019
Interpolated isobaths - Inuhuktok Get file
File: ds_000605844.zip Size: 995.35 KB
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Inuhuktok
Data
Depth (m) 01/2018 – 01/2019
Interpolated isobaths - Nakyulik Get file
File: ds_000605849.zip Size: 871.23 KB
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Nakyulik
Data
Depth (m) 01/2018 – 01/2019
Surface area, maximum and mean depth Get file
File: ds_000607611.zip Size: 434 B
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Greiner Lake Second Lake Inuhuktok First Lake Nakyulik
Data
Depth (m) 08/2018 – 08/2019
Area 08/2018 – 08/2019