“Utqiaġvik is a wonderfully peaceful place to conduct fieldwork, and I hope that one day I might have the opportunity to return to experience it all over again.”

Dive into the story of Archie Clarkson, a PhD student at the University of Exeter and a POLARIN Ambassador for the TWILIGHT Project, as he shares how POLARIN supported his research in Utqiaġvik, Alaska. His mission: to explore the tiny yet vital organisms living in Arctic ponds: protists.

With POLARIN’s support, Archie spent a week at the Barrow Arctic Research Center, where he collected water samples, measured pond conditions, and uncovered the surprising diversity of microscopic protists that keeps Arctic ecosystems functioning.

Read the full blog post here: Ponds of Utqiaġvik: Exploring Hidden Life in Arctic Alaska – POLARIN

The TWILIGHT project was one of the first to be selected through POLARIN’s initial call.