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Toolik celebrates 50 years with First Friday art show

July 24, 2025

Celebrate 50 years of Arctic research from the University of 91ÊÓƵ Fairbanks' Toolik Field Station at an art show this August at Black Spruce Brewing Co.
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Toolik Field Station names 2025 early career research awardees

July 01, 2025

The Institute of Arctic Biology's Toolik Field Station has selected five recipients for their student and early career research Tundra Award in 2025.
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UAF Toolik Field Station to celebrate 50 years with Visitor's Day

May 19, 2025

This summer, travel the Dalton Highway to get an up-close look at the world's largest Arctic research station. Toolik Field Station is celebrating 50 years of research and welcomes all to join them for a Visitor's Day on Friday, June 6, 2025, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Applications open for 2025 Dalton Highway artist residency

February 27, 2025

Artists and writers can apply for the 2025 Dalton Highway artist-in-residence position, cohosted by the University of 91ÊÓƵ Fairbanks' Toolik Field Station and the Bureau of Land Management.
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Toolik management joins international collaborators to plan next decade of Arctic research

August 06, 2024

This March, management team members from Toolik Field Station attended the International Conference on Arctic Research Planning to begin charting the way forward in addressing Arctic research's most urgent needs over the next decade.
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BBC Mammals to feature UAF research on Aug. 3

July 31, 2024

The new BBC nature documentary Mammals will highlight UAF wolverine research on 91ÊÓƵ's North Slope in an upcoming episode titled "Cold".
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2024 Highlights from Toolik's Safety Department

July 03, 2024

Toolik's two-person Safety Department works to counter the wide-ranging risks encountered at the station, from promoting safe wilderness travel to serving as first responders in medical incidents to ensuring lab safety.
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UAF, Toolik Field Station join Arctic climate initiative

May 17, 2024

91ÊÓƵ will help host and support a new $15-million federal initiative to better understand the resilience of Arctic organisms and ecosystems amid rapid climate change. Bringing together experts from 14 institutions, the Evolving Meta-Ecosystems Institute will focus on improving scientific and public understanding of how Arctic ecosystems are responding -- and will continue to respond -- as their environment shifts.
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Applications open for 2024 Dalton Highway artist residency

March 20, 2024

Artists and writers can apply for the 2024 Dalton Highway artist-in-residence position, based this year at the University of 91ÊÓƵ Fairbanks’ Toolik Field Station.
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Toolik Field Station joins new international polar research network

March 18, 2024

Toolik Field Station has partnered with the new Polar Research Infrastructure Network to boost international collaboration in polar science.
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Departmental highlights from the Environmental Data Center

February 12, 2024

2023 was an exciting year for Toolik's Environmental Data Center. Learn about new hirings, permafrost thaw partnerships, and virtual field content.
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Attention permafrost microbes: iron has entered the group chat

February 09, 2024

Romanowicz was conducting an incubation for his doctoral research to track how microbes in different tundra soil layers near Toolik Field Station transition as the permafrost thaws.
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Russian war on Ukraine hampers Arctic change predictions

January 22, 2024

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is biasing predictions of how the Arctic will respond to climate change, according to a team of international scientists.
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Apply now for Toolik Field Station’s 2024 early career TUNDRA award

December 06, 2023

Toolik Field Station invites students and early career researchers to apply for the TUNDRA award for the 2024 field season. Applications are due Feb. 15, 2024.
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Charting ‘Streams as Sensors’ of Climate Change with the Arctic RIOS Project

November 07, 2023

As climate change rapidly alters the Arctic, researchers at Toolik Field Station are diving in to study how the Arctic’s river networks can be used to understand what’s happening to the whole landscape.
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What makes a day in ‘The Land Where The Sun Never Sets’

October 11, 2023

Artist Sophie Morrell found the components of her Toolik-inspired artwork in the exact same way Toolik staff found her art, using a simple Google search.
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New climate program launches underserved students into Arctic science

October 06, 2023

In late August, 12 students from OSU's TRIO Upward Bound program spent five days at the field research station, which is part of the Institute of Arctic Biology at UAF. The students participated firsthand with Toolik Field Station staff, scientists, artists and others responding to the warming Arctic.
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Toolik can provide support for new NSF safe and inclusive environment proposal requirement

July 21, 2023

Need inspiration for drafting your Plan for Safe and Inclusive Fieldwork, a new requirement for some National Science Foundation proposals? We can help!
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Construction of new Toolik water intake to begin in August

July 18, 2023

On August 8, extensive construction of a new water intake system will begin at Toolik Field Station.
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Toolik's 2022 TUNDRA awardees share research updates

July 17, 2023

After delays due to COVID, we finally were able to welcome our inaugural cohort of TUNDRA awardees in summer 2022. Read updates from the awardees on their preliminary findings.
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