OBSERVATIONS FROM THE HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING SCIENCE EXPERIMENT (HIRISE) SHOW DYNAMIC LANDFORMS IN THE MARTIAN NORTHERN LOWLANDS. ONE SIGN OF ACTIVITY PATTERNED GROUND OCCURS NEARLY UBIQUITOUSLY AT LATITUDES ABOVE ~60 N. IT IS CHARACTERIZED BY A POLYGONAL NETWORK OF FRACTURES AND FORMS FROM THE SEASONAL CONTRACTION OF THE ICE-RICH SOIL. BOULDERS CLUSTERED ALONG THE MARGINS OF THE POLYGONAL FRACTURE NETWORKS MAY PROVIDE INDIRECT EVIDENCE OF POLYGON ACTIVITY. MOVEMENT OF BOULDERS TO THE FACTURE NETWORK MARGINS COULD OCCUR VIA DIVERSE PROCESSES SUCH AS CYCLICAL FREEZING-THAWING SEGREGATING ICE OR FROST HEAVING ALL OF WHICH ARE COMMON PROCESSES IN PERIGLACIAL TERRAINS ON EARTH. DESPITE THE UBIQUITY OF THE PATTERNS AND ASSOCIATED BOULDERS THE SPATIAL CLUSTERING OF BOULDERS AND THEIR ALIGNMENT TO FRACTURE MARGINS THAT COULD STATISTICALLY SHOW A RELATIONSHIP HAS NOT YET BEEN QUANTIFIED FOR MUCH OF THE NORTHERN LOWLANDS. THAT HAS DEPRIVED THE PLANETARY COMMUNITY OF KEY PARAMETRIC ESTIMATES IN UNDERSTANDING THE RELATIONSHIP OF BOULDER CLUSTERS AND POLYGONAL TERRAIN AND THUS REPRESENTS A GAP IN UNDERSTANDING OF PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES ON MARS. THE OVERARCHING GOAL OF THIS PROPOSED TWO YEAR STUDY IS TO DETERMINE THE ORIGIN OF SURFACE BOULDER DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS IN THE MARTIAN NORTHERN LOWLANDS.