About Field Sites Oksrukuyik Creek (OKSR) is an aquatic NEON field site located on the North Slope of Alaska. It is NEON's northernmost aquatic site. Oksrukuyik Creek is a wadeable stream flowing through the open tundra north of the Brooks Range before draining into the Sagavanir…
…complex ecological processes at local, regional and continental scales. At each field site, a diverse suite of biological, physical, chemical and ecological characteristics are measured using three collection systems: automated instruments , observational sampling and airborne re…
About Field Sites Toolik Lake (TOOK) is an aquatic NEON field site located in the northern foothills of Alaska’s Brooks Range in a 63.7 km 2 (15,700 acre) watershed. The lake is one of the largest in the area and is part of a lake district consisting of numerous kettle lakes form…
About Field Sites Toolik Lake Research Natural Area (TOOL) is a terrestrial NEON field site near Toolik Field Station, AK, just north of the Brooks Range. The 60 km 2 (14,800 acre) site is located 254.3 km (158 mi.) above the Arctic Circle and 188 km (116 mi.) from the Arctic Oce…
…ial site with a precipitation gauge is nearby. Riparian Station At each aquatic field site, one meteorological station sits near the aquatic body to collect weather and climate data. The aquatic meteorological station is ~3 m tall and configured with a subset of the meteorologica…
…directly observed or derived from analyses on physical samples collected in the field. The collection and analysis workflows result in four general categories of data latency for OS data: Data collected directly in the field Data from samples analyzed in NEON lab facilities Data …