Description: The U.S. Naval Academy Polar Science and Technology Program (USNA PS&TP) will lead a collaborative team of scientists and students from the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, and the
U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory to conduct field studies on the North Slope of Alaska. Base camp for these studies will be hosted out of the National Science Foundation’s Toolik Lake Field Station. Focus
of study is to identify material sources and quantify fluxes of freshwater, heat, and materials in select representative, small river systems on the U.S. NorthSlope of Alaska. To accomplish, an integrated approach involving low-cost,
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs), custom-built, unmanned fixed monitoring stations, in situ data collection, and discrete sample collection for biogeochemical analysis.
Location: Toolik Lake Field Station on the Alaskan North Slope and Fairbanks, AK at Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory