All Scientists Meetings
Join us in 2025 for a special All Scientists Meeting: Celebrating 50 Years of Toolik research!
January 16-18, 2025 in Santa Barbara, CA
The All Scientists Meeting is a place to spark conversation, inspire new ideas, and garner feedback amongst the Toolik community. All are welcome to join for science talks, poster presentations, and breakout discussions/workshops on topics like education and outreach, Arctic research with Alaska Native communities, creating field safety plans, and station support needs.
A current project at the station is not required, only interest in research and education in the Toolik area and thoughts about how Toolik services can best support future research and education. In-person attendance will be limited to 120 people. Attendees can also register to attend virtually.
Limited travel support is available for graduate students, post-docs, early career researchers, and educators. Please indicate in the registration form if you are requesting travel support.
We look forward to hearing community needs and fostering collaboration and synergy among research groups and staff!
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 Alaska’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
- Navigating the changing cultural landscape of Arctic research and how TFS can help
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 Alaska
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