Field told me that she had got permission for the Utqiagvik field test from the local city government and the Native corporation, and thought those agreements sufficed.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-control-of-nature/a-heat-shield-for-the-most-important-ice-on-earth

Ming Xiao, an engineering professor at Penn State University, stands on Aug. 3 by a piled-up sand berm used as a makeshift barrier to protect parts of Utqiagvik from storm-driven flooding.

Source: https://alaskapublic.org/2023/01/04/in-northernmost-alaska-a-battle-is-on-to-limit-the-damages-of-permafrost-thaw/

Wedges of ice, features of the ice-rich permafrost that underlies Utqiagvik, are exposed on Aug. 2 on an eroding beach bluff.

Source: https://alaskapublic.org/2023/01/04/in-northernmost-alaska-a-battle-is-on-to-limit-the-damages-of-permafrost-thaw/