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50 Years of Toolik Research
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Toolik Field Station founders

Scientists Jerry Brown, John Hobbie, Mike Miller, Phil Miller, and Vera Alexander stop for a photo on their drive south from Prudhoe Bay, AK to Toolik Lake on the newly built Dalton Highway in summer 1975. Photo by Pat Webber
Old site of the original Toolik camp

Trailers and tents line the old Toolik Lake construction camp airstrip as the original site of the University of Alaska Fairbanks research site at Toolik Lake in the late 1970s to early 1980s. The research site, then renamed Toolik Field Station, moved from the airstrip to the south side of the lake in 1984. Photo by Mike Abels/TFS
Vera Alexander's trailer

Researchers clean lab supplies outside of a trailer, which was converted into a mobile laboratory, on the shores of Toolik Lake in summer 1985. Photo by Jim Laundre
Shaver's Lab

A research team, including Toolik Field Station's current science director Syndonia Bret-Harte, stands outside of a trailer lab in the 1990s.