Core properties of permafrost cores collected in Ward Hunt Island between 2011 and 2016

Permafrost cores were collected in order to determine permafrost properties and ice content during an investigation of permafrost properties. The research was conducted during geomorphological surveys of the Ward Hunt Island and were part of a study on mass movement, slope hydrology and water track hydrology and thermal role in the landscape. Cores were initially sampled to determine cryostratigraphic profiles of polar desert soils, in order to provide information on permafrost formation and Quaternary history. Core sampling was also often the bi-product of the installation of thermistors or the sub-sampling for isotopes. These do not include the data from the ADAPT programme, which also collected cores in the vicinity.The isotopic data was used in Paquette et al. 2018 to determine the isotopic and geochemical signature of permafrost ice, indicating when flowing water seeping from the ground was the result of permafrost degradation.