Student Fieldwork Position Available
Nuvuk Archaeology Project
Barrow Arctic Science Consortium/UIC Science
Nuvuk, Point Barrow, Alaska
Early June - late July 2009
Application deadline: Thursday, 30 April 2009
For further information, please contact:
Anne Jensen
E-mail: anne.jensen [at] uicscience.org
The Nuvuk Archaeology Project seeks students to join a field crew this
summer at Point Barrow, Alaska as part of an NSF-funded research
project. The field team will excavate threatened cultural resources at
Nuvuk (including a Thule cemetery and possibly more Ipiutak features)
and Birnirk, and save the data they contain about the past 1,700 years
of history. The field season will last from early June through mid-July.
Local North Slope high school students make up a large part of the field
and laboratory crew. Project participants will live at NARL, in Barrow,
and will work Monday through Friday. This leaves participants the
weekend to experience life in and around Barrow, Alaska. After the
regular field season, there may be an opportunity to take part in
archaeology connected with a planned revival of the Trade Fair at the
mouth of the Colville River.
The project would provide travel to Barrow, Alaska for the field season,
room and board while in Barrow, a stipend, and travel to a conference
for the student to present a paper on a topic associated with the
project. In addition, "room and board only" stipends may be available
for experienced volunteers.
Interested students should contact Anne Jensen
(anne.jensen [at] uicscience.org) for additional information and application
information.
Applications are due Thursday, 30 April 2009.