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Tracking community coastal change

Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2021 8:21


"I've seen an artistry come out of Alaska, it has changed, the way in which we've articulated in which our resources are important to us and how we've done that through art, and other type of expression, that makes me really hopeful." - Davin Holen

Weathering winter rainstorms

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2021 8:13


“An actual inch of rain between November and March had only happened one other time in the climate record.” - Eric Stevens

When the ice dam fails

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2021 9:31


“We landed and when we landed the basin was finishing draining. So the glacier ice where we landed was still settling and cracking, it was very disconcerting.” - Eran Hood

Lightning, wildfires, and Martian ice

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2021 9:40


“We asked them if they could tailor their models from the Martian landscape to Earth permafrost landscapes and from there we developed some early calculations of impacts of climate change on permafrost.” - Cathy Wilson

What faces tomorrow's climate scientists

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2021 8:52


“Once we destroy those natural areas it's very difficult to get them back.” - Emily Fort

Reaching passersby through poetry

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2021 9:17


“Creating doesn't have to be a scary thing where you have to go into your special corner and turn a light on and turn the world off and think about how awful life is.” - Rebecca Lawhorne

Keeping up with community climate concerns

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2021 10:02


“Droughts and floods I think are the particular climate events that I think we'd be most concerned about.” - John Walsh

Land stewardship in a changing world

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2021 9:37


“Venetie at one time in the 40s and 50s was a major gardening center and they would trade potatoes and carrots, things like that, they would go down and trade for salmon on the Yukon and supply vegetables and such for the steam boats.” - Lance Whitwell

Revisiting your hometown’s history

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2021 8:09


“I'd spent all of my time learning about cultures around the world and I didn't know anything about the cultures of my own state or the area that I lived in.” - Davin Holen

Overcoming failure

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2021 8:24


“And I think positive self talk is the kindest thing you can do to yourself. Being able to say 'It's OK, it takes time.' You know what you need to do, so why not start?” - Dina Abdel-Fattah

Mentors as both friends and role models

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2021 9:19


“If all my legacy is that I have produced one scientist, that's enough for me.” - Elena Sparrow

2021 Spring season of Alaska Voices starts next week

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2021 1:21


Alaska Voices is back March 15 with new episodes. Project leads Jessie Robertson and Bob Bolton also give a quick update on future Alaska Voices recordings.

Alaska Voices Update – End of Season 1

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2020 0:55


The first season of Alaska Voices is coming to a close. Stay tuned for updates on future developments as we explore what comes next for the project. Thank you to our contributors, organizers, and listeners for all of your support.

Learning as a scientist when to say “I don’t know”

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2020 7:55


"I was always the kid getting outside and getting lost and grimy and playing with frogs and cutting trees."

Designing accessible research for rural communities

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2020 8:15


"I think that the first thing that agencies have to acknowledge is there's an extreme power imbalance between what value we put on scientific knowledge and what value we put on local knowledge."

Collaborating with agencies, communities

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2020 8:04


“I'm more and more impatient with the slow pace of science and feel like at the rate the world is changing these days, we really need to make progress.”

Partnerships

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2020 10:37


"As a leader you're not there to tell people what to do. You're there to support them succeeding at what they already can do best or helping them learn to do something better."

Finding nature and ourselves in cities

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2020 8:13


“I'm definitely interested in expanding access to nature because I do think it's really important for mental health and spirituality and physical health.”

Making spaces for varied voices

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2020 7:53


“It's easy to be satisfied with incremental change when the incremental change is not affecting you.”

Leveling the ivory tower

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2020 7:14


“As a mentor it's important for me to advocate for my students, especially as undergraduates you really feel like you're at the bottom and you have no power.”

Building bridges with sea ice

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2020 8:13


“I think as humans, especially when it's in our backyard, we want to feel like we have a process, that we have ownership in that, and we have agency to make our voices heard.”

Loud, critical, ambitious: sexism in science

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2020 9:00


" I have to be able to be on my toes and defend all of the work that my team has done, and yet if I question any of the work any of the other teams have done, immediately I'm called in the office."

Grad school files

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2020 6:13


"I thought environmental science was a really good way to connect people's problems and Earth's problems and learn about the physical world yet the social science world, too."

Engineering healthy early-career boundaries

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2020 8:45


“A lot of the male engineers were invited to go out golfing, and shooting, and I was never invited to do those things even though I was also an engineer and actually a pretty great shot.”

Uneven ground: permafrost thaw and burnout

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2020 8:30


“The more positive side of people's brains would say oh, no, no, no, these are learning opportunities or whatever, but at some point it's actually just failure.”

Sounding board on the Antarctic ice sheet

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2020 6:16


"So once I found this role as a peacemaker, I was like, OK, this is my role on the team. It's not so much science, it's more communication."

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Another day at work

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2020 5:06


"Being able to move on and feeling supported by your superiors, takes away so much of the trauma that women often experience when they try to report."

Arctic diplomacy and Native Movement

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2020 8:54


"I think the more that we talk about our differences and our full stories and how they've informed where we're at, that is how we make the community stronger for whatever we face."

Surveying Alaska after World War II

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2020 6:52


"The person that owned that had no requirement to say hey there's a big ice lens under here, don't build your house there."

Storytelling as a conduit of culture

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2020 8:58


"Since our existence is glued together by stories and songs and language, all of our laws and everything, I have a certain way of looking at stories that the next generation won't be able to accommodate."

Stepping off the plane to roaring Northern fur seals

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2020 7:22


"It's sometimes hard to see a trend because we're living in the moment of all the ups and downs. But the sea ice is something that is really dramatic."

Two career paths from El Yunque to Alaska

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2020 7:43


"When you get out to the real world the skills that you need are going to be really varied. I think that's helpful for a new generation of scientists, be aware that there's not one way to do it."

Navigating oceans and grad school

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2020 7:58


“Antarctica, it's fascinating from the scientific point of view, but you don't have a community that depends on the sea ice in Antarctica.”

Donning a flag for graduation

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2020 5:46


"If I were in Ethiopia right now, I would be in jail already, or probably I would be killed."

Donning a flag for graduation

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2020 5:46


"If I were in Ethiopia right now, I would be in jail already, or probably I would be killed."

Fireside chat

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2020 4:43


"The key for us is being able to justify and ground decisions in good science."

Expanding scientific literacy beyond the research realm

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2020 8:02


"If the public who isn't a scientist knows what we do and why, then we've done good in education."

Fifty years of Arctic change

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2020 8:24


"When you lose half of your sea ice volume, in fact we've lost more than half of the volume in such a short period of time, that's something that I don't think people really anticipated."

Making connections with neighbors and ancestors

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2020 8:31


"It's so overwhelming. The scope of problems we face in our communities, let alone climate change on an international or world level problems, sanitation issues, landfill issues"

Breaking the ice with a steam bath in rural Alaska

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2020 7:08


"I told him we have a sand dune that's erupting in the middle of our airstrip and there was a tribal member who got stuck in a sinkhole."

A day in the life of a university scientist

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2020 7:29


"There's a culture here of women, working moms, who are wanting to, outdoing each other, like, 'Well I put the baby down at 8 but I still had to stay up until 2 in the morning to finish this grant.'"

Reflecting after a Commencement handshake

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2020 8:03


"We currently are the world leader in Arctic research. No other university, and really no other federal government around the world, does more research on the Arctic than University of Alaska Fairbanks."

Bringing global experiences back home

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2020 8:42


"We were in Georgia, the Republic of Georgia, when they were being bombed. And all we had to eat for like six weeks straight was kasha, buckwheat."

Growing up in a research lab

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2020 7:24


"I started working with my high school teacher who was very, very dedicated to helping me reach this goal. She used to drive me to the university where I did the research after school everyday."

Growing a collaboration

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2020 5:44


"I think what I've been focusing on is how can we take something that can spill out of people in such a negative way and make it neutral?"

Caribou and bear before breakfast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2020 6:30


"If you shoot a bear in self defense you have to take the hide and the paws and the head with you and we still had maybe two or so more weeks of floating this river."

An average field season, other than meeting the spouse

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2020 6:26


"Their formal role in this is to make sure I don't die and my role is to make sure they experience a different part of the world that they wouldn't get to otherwise."

Off-road adventures in northern Alaska

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2020 7:59


“My path now is to be a leader and to make conditions such that I'm encouraging other people such as yourself have those sorts of adventures”

Lessons on long drives and muddy trails

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2020 6:33


“I want to be one of those ladies that's dirty every day and slugging through places without trails.”

Braving thin ice

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2020 8:27


"I'd say within the last 20 years maybe about 15 of those years we've seen a lot of changes in our climates with floods, erosions, fall storms."

A different world

Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2020 5:47


"When we went back, again, we just listened. We didn't have any questions, we didn't have any ideas, and that space for communication grew back."

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