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. Meet station staff and scientists as you tour Toolik facilities […]
When Katey Walter Anthony heard rumors of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, ballooning under the lawns of fellow Fairbanks residents, she nearly didn’t believe it. “I ignored it for years because I thought ‘I am a limnologist, methane is in lakes,’” she said. But when a local reporter contacted Walter Anthony, who is a research […]
Artists and writers can apply for the 2024 Dalton Highway artist-in-residence position, based this year at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Toolik Field Station. The selected artist will have five to six days to travel the Dalton Highway, speak with land managers and research scientists and pursue their discipline amid Alaska’s inspiring Arctic landscapes. Residencies can […]
Toolik Field Station has partnered with the new Polar Research Infrastructure Network to boost international collaboration in polar science. The project, coordinated by the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany, will increase international access to 64 field stations, vessels and other polar research facilities across Europe, the Americas and Antarctica. Researchers from the U.S. will be […]