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The meeting will be held at and on  on Jan. 16-18. Registration/check-in begins at 8:30 am each morning at the BC, and presentations start at 9 am. A is available. The buildings are ADA accessible, and you don’t need a permit to park since classes aren't in session.

Jan. 16, 2025               

8:30   Registration

9:00   Welcoming Remarks (Donie, Steve, Frank)   

9:15 Land Acknowledgement & Code of Conduct   

9:20   Syndonia Bret-Harte -  Strategic Plan Update

9:40   Jessica Cherry - Climate Patterns and Change in the Vicinity of Toolik Lake 

10:00 Memories (1-2)

10:05 Vladimir Romanovsky - Forty Years of Changes in Ground Temperature in the Greater Toolik Lake Station Area

10:25 Anna Klene et al. - 30 years of Toolik CALM:  Active layer trends in the Kuparuk River Basin

10:45 BREAK  

11:00 Mathew Sturm - It Snows Up There a Bit --Some Thoughts on Four Decades of Snow Studies on ��򽴫ý’s North Slope

11:20 Steve Oberbauer et al. - Shifting Baseline Syndrome and Personal Amnesia: Perceptions of 35 years of Vegetation Change in the Toolik Lake Research Natural Area

11:40 Ned Fetcher - Plant response to temperature gradients in the tundra and the tropics.

12:00 LUNCH 

1:30   Breakout discussions/workshops        

• Ethical Principles for Open-Access Data
• Education at Toolik: Reaching the Missing Millions through K-12 Outreach
• User-defined topic ??? What do you want to chat about?

3:00 BREAK 

3:15 Laura Gough et al. - Herbivory Research Conducted near Toolik Field Station: A Brief Review

3:35 Brian Barnes - Physiological Research on Arctic Animals: Teams Bug, Bird, and Squirrel

3:55 Memories (1-2)

4:00   Keynote - John Hobbie  

4:30   Regroup & breakout summaries - include a memory or two     

5:00   Adjourn          

                         

Jan. 17, 2025               

8:30   Registration

9:00   Welcoming Remarks 

9:05 Rose Cory - A 12 year record of change in dissolved organic matter composition in Toolik Lake

9:25 Claudia Czimczik - Permafrost carbon emissions in the polar night

9:45 Memories (1-2)

9:50 Chelsea Smith et al. - Investigating the Spatial Variability of Carbon Stabilization with Metals in Toolik Lake Sediments

10:10 Sally MacIntyre - Mixing Dynamics in Arctic Lakes in Summer and Winter

10:30 BREAK  

10:45 Heidi Golden - Transcending Climate Change Theory to Interdisciplinary Predictive Modeling

11:05 Alex Huryn - Spring-fed stream-aufeis ecosystems – uniquely Arctic!

11:25 Memories (1-2)

11:30 Roxaneh Khorsand - Spatio-temporal patterns in floral resource availability and plant-pollinator interactions on the North Slope of ��򽴫ý

11:50 Manpreet Kohli - Evolutionary Tales of Arctic Dragonflies (VIRTUAL)

12:10 LUNCH 

1:40   Breakout discussions/workshops        

• Creating Safe & Inclusive Fieldwork Plans
• Science Support Services
• User-defined topic ??? What do you want to chat about?

3:10   BREAK  

3:25   Posters

5:00 Poster Session Adjourns 

6:30 Dinner Reception and Silent Auction

                         

Jan. 18, 2025               

8:30   Registration

9:00   Welcoming Remarks 

9:05   Keynote - Cana Itchuaqiyaq   - An Arctic Perspective for Innovating Arctic Research

9:40   Mariama Dryak-Vallies - An Overview of the Polar Science Early Career Community Office and Polar Early Career Needs

10:00 Ben Halpern - NCEAS and the power of synthesis for science and solutions

10:20 Mary Beth Leigh - The Wonder of Place: Art-science Integration at Toolik Field Station

10:40 BREAK

10:55 Rebecca Holmes Sandoval - Observing Rockets and Aurora with a Single-Photon Camera

11:15 Chris Baird - From Toolik to the continent National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)

11:35 Memories (1-2)

11:40 Amanda Young - Science Support at Toolik over the years

12:00 Terry Chapin - Connecting arctic science with communities

12:20 LUNCH 

1:20 Breakout discussions/workshops        

• Equitable Research with Indigenous Arctic Communities
• Engaging the Public in Arctic Science through Arts and Mass Media
• User-defined topic ??? What do you want to chat about?

2:50   BREAK  

3:00   Regroup & breakout summaries - include a memory or two     

3:30   Meeting concludes  

If you are an invited speaker or a member of the Toolik Steering Committee, we will arrange your travel. If you are a general attendee, please make your room reservations now. Discounted rates available until December 15th. 

Hotels that are offering us a discounted rate through early December include:

• Hotel Milo -

• Franciscan Inn - Call (805) 963-8845 and request “Toolik” rate, or

• Inn by the Harbor - Call (805) 963-7851 and request "Toolik Field Station - All Scientist Meeting rate."

All are invited to join us on Jan. 17 at 6:30 pm at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum for a dinner celebrating 50 years of Toolik. We will share stories and memories of work at Toolik Field Station over local Mexican food. Non-alcoholic beverages will be provided.

Come ready to tell your Toolik (tall) tale in one of several micro-sessions for memory sharing. We’ll ask interested folks to put their names in a hat and randomly select one or two people to share a 1-3 minute story throughout the meeting.

We’re compiling materials and stories that give a look back at 50 years of Toolik. Please share your favorite Toolik memories with us, whether it’s a story, photo, video, artwork, or something else! Email them to uaf-toolik-communication@alaska.edu with the subject line “Toolik@50”.

We’ll also be hosting a silent auction at ASM50 to support our station’s efforts like the artist-in-residence program, renewable energy, the early career Tundra award, and other outreach.

Email Mike Reynolds if you’d like to contribute an item for the silent auction.

The Toolik Field Station Code of Conduct and Sexual Misconduct Policy applies at all times throughout the course of the meeting. Anyone requested to stop prohibited behavior is expected to comply immediately. Failure to comply with the meeting code could result in immediate removal from the meeting and prohibited attendance at Toolik Field Station and other Toolik events.

Have other ideas for Toolik@50?

We’d love to hear them as we begin to plan next year! Contact the Toolik management team at uaf-iab-toolik@alaska.edu about how you’d like to celebrate 50 years of Toolik research.

to receive information about 50th Year Celebration events.