Support
2024 Support FAQs and contact list
Your reservation at Toolik Field Station via the system gives you and your team access to many services offered at the station: Transportation (long distance and local), accommodations (lodging, access to our facilities, showering, etc.), shipping and freight services, food, laboratory access, , storage, safety trainings, medical support, etc.
In addition to the day to day operations, Toolik Field Station also has departments that offer a variety of other specialized services available to the Toolik Community through the Spatial and Environmental Data Center (Environmental Data Center, GIS & Remote Sensing) and the Station Facilities & Operations are there to help you focus on your science. To request support of all kinds please go to our and find the appropriate form.
Environmental Data Center
The Environmental Data Center offers a variety of services to the Toolik community
through the collection of long-term baseline environmental and biological data, management
of common-use equipment, field assistance for researchers at the station or remote,
and educational materials through a series of plant an animal guides. 
GIS & Remote Sensing
Toolik GIS & Remote Sensing offers mapping (publication maps, imagery layer creation,
site selection), field services (GPS surveys, drone imagery collection, bathymetric
surveys), and analysis of spatial data catered to our research communities needs.
Maintenance, Equipment Support, & Fabrication
The Maintenance, Equipment Support & Fabrication team is there to address repairs
that may be needed throughout the facility (broken window, bedroom furniture issue,
etc.) or help repairing broken field equipment, gear, vehicles, small engines, etc.
They also help maintain remote power systems (generators, wind, solar) and assist
researchers with their remote instruments.
NSF Arctic Logistic Contractor - Battelle ARO
NSF funded projects through the Office of Polar Programs may have support through the logistics contract. Projects supported through this may have truck, helicopter, logistics, userday, and field infrastructure support. Please contact your program manager to determine the support your project has or is able to ask for. FYI support request typically need to be in 1 year in advance.
Helicopters at Toolik