Bob Hollister has decades of experience doing research in the Arctic. He is currently co-chair of the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) network and he leads a collaborative multi-disciplinary research project funded by the National Science Foundation as part of the Arctic Observatory Network (AON). His work, based at sites near Utqiaġvik, Atqasuk and Toolik Lake, is titled “Using the ITEX-AON network to document and understand terrestrial ecosystem change in the New Arctic.” These sites are now among the longest continually monitored vegetation studies in the Arctic.