Back up to Toolik Field Station for a few days to show off the station.

Spotted a few muskox and a beautiful red fox while out on an bluebird day to measure snow depths for a research looking at the changes is permafrost depth and carbon flux due to experimental increases in snow accumulation.

The first siksrik of the year has emerged from hibernation at Toolik! The Toolik ground squirrel population usually wakes a little later than those closer to the Brooks Range. Welcome back to the station, ground squirrel. uaf.edu/toolik/edc/jou… 📸 Mayra Meléndez González

Nice to be back in Anaktuvuk Pass for the week.

What a great trip to Anaktuvuk Pass. Had a rewarding time working with the students, visiting folks in town and hiking around. Until next time AKP.

Is it spring? Cold first day up at Toolik with highs near 15 and lows below 0f. Despite the cold it is beautiful with bluebird skies. Not to be out shown the mountains a radiant with alpine glow in the evening and the ptarmigan flicks are getting ever bigger.

Still alot of snow to move up at Toolik Field Station in order to welcome the researchers who are migrating north along with the birds. Joe is knocking down this pile to make room for more snow piles. The dozer might look small in the photo but it is a large normal sized dozer.

Annual dig a giant snow pit day up at Toolik Field Station in the Imnaviat watershed. The snow pit is to allow snow melt (water) to run through a weir so we can calculate how much water and when it is flowing out of the watershed.

Left the snow pit queen in the pit to monitor melt and run off for us.

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Excited for this webinar and webinars to come from Cana and Corina. If you work or do research in the Arctic this it is a must.

While out monitoring plants today near Toolik Field Station I heard what could only be described as a bird mimicking a grasshopper. I knew there must be a bluethroat around but I did not have my binoculars. I went back and I found a handful of handsome bluethroat singing away in some willows.

Out installing eddy covariance towers for the year in the footprint of the old Anaktuvuk river burn scar. We fly from Toolik Field Station for this work.

Slowly but surely the tundra around Toolik Field Station Field Station is coming alive. Since Friday lots of snow has melted and the flowers have begun to pop.

Welp… the Shogren Lab is looking for a PhD student for a 5-yr NSF project on eDNA transport at NEON wadeable streams! Start date in January or August 2025 😊 Reach out via email if interested!