Information for Goat Lake

Latitude:

60.253

Longitude:

-149.912

Location:

United States: Alaska

More Information on Goat Lake

Contact Name:

D Kaufman

Contact Name:

Tom Daigle

Proxy Information

Proxy:

Laminae

Proxy:

Sedimentology

Proprietary Data Area

Lake Description:

Goat Lake lies in a small drainage basin at the northern margin of the Harding Icefield (HIF). Two lake cores retrieved in 2004 indicate that the HIF has thickened and spilled meltwater into Goat Lake at least once during the Little Ice Age. The middle Holocene and 20th century sediments consist of gyttja and tephra. Wiles and Calkin (1994) have compiled a regional dendroclimate record that will be supplemented with a local dendroclimate record from mountain hemlock trees cored nearby the lake. These tree-ring data will be compared with the lake sediment changes and recent local cirque glacier activity to quantify summer temperatures over the last 2000+ yr.